Maria Zhukova

Rask AI

An AI video localization platform, part of Brask, a company that also makes AI digital doubles. I joined as a freelance copywriter at the Product Hunt launch and was later invited to join the team full-time. I led the copy team and turned the blog into a research outlet, a lead source and a stage.

Role
Head of Copywriting
team of 5–7
I also led SMM for six months, until a dedicated SMM specialist joined.
Duration
03/2023 – 07/2024
Category
AI video localization, US
Scope of work
SEO & blog
Research
Award-winning campaign
Customer stories
Websites
Tone of voice

Milestones

Rask AI: Silver Award from Product Hunt, Golden Kitty Awards 2023
Silver AwardRask AI won a Silver Award at the Golden Kitty Awards from Product Hunt.
Rask AI growth chart: $1M ARR in August 2023, $3M in November, $5M in December
$5M ARR in 9 monthsThe Rask AI team reached $5M ARR in just nine months.
HackerNoon Startups of the Year 2023 banner for Rask AI, Dover, DE
Startup of the Year, Dover, DEOn HackerNoon’s Startups of the Year 2023, the startup of the year in Dover, DE is Rask AI.
Rask AI: Thank you, Rask AI is a Product of the Day on Product Hunt
Product of the DayRask AI was Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

Blog

A blog started from scratch

I started the Rask AI blog from zero. I joined the team at the launch stage, and I have been writing and running the blog since. Here are a few pieces to read.

Rask AI blog cover: The art of crafting captivating audio adsRask AI blog cover: How to translate subtitles quickly and easilyRask AI blog cover: Automate translation and dubbing with Rask’s APIRask AI blog cover: Best AI dubbing software for video localizationRask AI blog cover: Lip sync meaning in the digital ageRask AI blog cover: Best voice cloning API solutionsRask AI blog cover: The best speech to text API

Open the Rask AI blog

Research & thought leadership

Original data, real experts

Instead of rewriting what everyone else published, I ran our own studies and brought in outside experts: professors, researchers, product leaders.

Desk researchQualitative in-depth interviewsQuantitative surveyReport & articles
Rask AI blog cards for AI in the Classroom and AI-Powered Personalization in Education, both bylined Maria Zhukova, Head of copy at Brask
Bylined on rask.ai as Head of copy at Brask

SEO & blog

A blog that paid for itself

In collaboration with a digital SEO agency, we developed an SEO strategy and followed it. Using it, other copywriters and I wrote 150+ SEO articles.

150+SEO articles
200Kvisits
$60Krevenue attributed to content

Customer stories

The customer is the hero

I came up with the customer story initiative and launched it. I wrote some stories myself and my team wrote others. In every one, the customer is the hero.

£10–12K

saved on localization by Ian Wharton, creator of “Sell the Idea”.

Written by a member of my teamRead the story
TV

How a Czech TV company, Fameplay TV, broke the ceiling in viewership.

I wrote this oneSee the story

Tone of voice

A guide other writers actually use

I wrote the guide for my team and for freelancers: naming, the one-line pitch, mission, ideal customer, tone of voice, SEO rules and a structure for customer stories.

Cover of the Rask AI Tone of Voice Copywriters Guide

What is inside the guide

Five brand values

We are

  • Innovative
  • Fast
  • Knowledgeable
  • Empathetic
  • Transparent
Naming rules

Rask AI
Rask AI Platformis a right name

Raskis a wrong name

A product, a platform, a tool. Not an app.

One-line pitch

Rask AI is…

  • AI-powered platform for audio & video localization and repurposing
  • All-in-one platform for translating, cutting, and posting your audio & video
  • Automate audio & video localization and repurposing to expand your business across platforms and markets
Channels
Twitter
A slightly cheeky and bold tone.
Email
Polite and respectful. Users are “Raskers”.
Social
No politics. Neutral until the CEO makes an official statement.
SEO briefs
  • Keywords in the specified amount
  • H2 subheadings with keywords
  • Alt and title tags on images
  • Meta description up to 200 characters
  • FAQ section when specified
80–100%uniqueness<30%AI scoreOriginality.aicheck
Case-study structure
  1. Introduce the Hero
  2. Personal Background
  3. Behind the Scenes
  4. Challenges Faced
  5. Overcoming Obstacles
  6. Current Status and Future Goals
Download the ToV guidePDF

Live TV

France’s Got Talent, with an AI double

Rask AI went on La France a un incroyable talent, live on M6. With impressionist and singer David Corriveau we built a digital double of one of the judges, comedian Sugar Sammy, and showed AI as a partner to a human performer, not a replacement. I was on the team from the first audition to the final, and I told the story on our blog as it happened.

Top 10 of 120 acts 3 live performances 200K+ YouTube views Coverage in France and Canada
01

Audition

A digital double of judge Sugar Sammy, sung and voiced by David Corriveau with Rask AI.

Rask AI audition on La France a un incroyable talentPhoto: M6 TV channel, Paris (Julien Theuil / M6) Watch on YouTube
02

Semifinal

Aired December 19, 2023. From semifinalists to finalists.

Rask AI semifinal on La France a un incroyable talentPhoto: M6 TV channel, Paris (Julien Theuil / M6) Watch on YouTube
03

Final

December 22, 2023. Singing, impersonation, lip-sync and digital doubles, closing with a cover of “Le Blues du Businessman”. Team: David Corriveau, Evgeniya Dedyukina and me.

Rask AI final on La France a un incroyable talentPhoto: M6 TV channel, Paris (Julien Theuil / M6) Watch on YouTube

Read the full story on the Rask AI blogmy story, updated after every round

ADC Merit 2024103rd ADC Annual Awards · Digital Craft / Use of Technology

Campaign

Translate Your Heart

Many families live with a language barrier inside the home: grandparents and grandchildren, partners, parents who moved. For the winter holidays Rask AI built a free landing page where anyone could record a message to a loved one and hear it in another language, in their own voice. Documentary videos with real families and influencers from Germany, the US, France, Canada, Japan and Australia carried the story.

Case study film

Translate your heart key visual: family photos around a smiling woman, Rask logo
Key visual
3,000+videos created on the landing page in the first 20 days
5M+social reach across X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
130+languages for translation
28languages with voice cloning

My role

Head of Copy on the campaign, leading the copy with copywriter Iryna Dzemyanchuk.

Team

In-house at Rask AI, creative direction by Elnara Ialaltdinova. Full credits on Ads of the World

Social

Chalk on black, one hashtag

The campaign’s social visuals use one hand-drawn look and one hashtag, so every post reads as part of the same message.

The question that opened the campaign, with #TranslateYourHeart.
The question that opened the campaign, with #TranslateYourHeart.
The key line: “Translate your heart with rask.ai”, video translation to 130+ languages.
The key line: “Translate your heart with rask.ai”, video translation to 130+ languages.
The announcement visual: “Rask AI Makes It Possible to Translate Your Heart”.
The announcement visual: “Rask AI Makes It Possible to Translate Your Heart”.

+Product news on social

Milestone and launch posts for the same audience.

2,000,000+ users.
2,000,000+ users.
Early access for AI video generation.
Early access for AI video generation.

Websites & brand

Three pages, three audiences

I rebuilt the Brask websites and wrote new landing pages: a research lab for engineers, an AI agency for brands and talent, and the company story for future hires.