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BUILD. GROW. REPEAT.

We help founders and marketers build products faster and grow steady revenue with vibe coding and growth marketing. We host free events, share practical resources, and run workshops to grow the impact and profit of your business.

Hi, I'm Ben, Captain of Pirate Skills

Watch this quick overview to understand what Pirate Skills is all about and how we can help you level up your business.

PRODUCTGROWTH
should have never grown so far apart

Splitting product, sales & marketing ia a mistake – more so since AI. If you only build or grow, you slow down and waste money.

Just Building — fails

  • Opinion‑driven roadmaps ship features no one needs
  • Slow time‑to‑revenue — months to first payers
  • No PMF signals — activation/retention unknown
  • Team bloat over AI/automation; burn climbs, speed drops
  • Vanity metrics replace cohort learning and survey truth

Just Growing — also fails

  • Detached funnels chase clicks, not product usage
  • CAC inflates, payback drags, churn stays high
  • Slow learning loop — insights never shape the roadmap
  • Onboarding ignored — activation flatlines, retention weak
  • Vanity dashboards hide PMF survey truth

BUILDGROW

one craft — practiced together

Equip lean crews to Build – Grow – Repeat: ship a narrow working tool fast with AI, validate with activation, retention, and PMF signals, and scale only when unit economics work. Small on purpose, evidence over ego, price on value.

Build Track

Event

Monthly community meetup for AI builders and growth nerds in Cologne. Connect, share, and learn together with like-minded founders.

Resource

Comprehensive guide to AI-assisted development with practical patterns and best practices. Master prompt engineering and AI-first workflows that keep your team lean and productive.

Workshop

Build and launch your SaaS product from scratch using AI in 6 weeks. No coding experience required — AI writes the code, you guide it. Ship real features with authentication, database, and payments.

Grow Track

Event

Monthly online sessions where we solve our growth challenges and share what works. Free community support for growth-focused founders.

Resource

Our 6-part growth marketing framework that helps you grow your business. Data-driven strategies tested in the field with real SaaS products and measurable results.

Workshop

6 intensive workshops in 6 weeks covering all core growth marketing areas, every quarter. Master activation, retention, and revenue growth with cohort analysis and PMF validation.

Explore all our resources and programs

See the complete overview of build & growevents, workshops, and resources

Learn from a serial founder with real-world experience

Proven strategies from someone who's actually been in the arena

Ben Sufiani, Founder of Pirate Skills

Ben Sufiani

The Captain

Founder from Cologne, Germany with 15 years of startup experience across 9 ventures. After helping thousands of entrepreneurs master growth marketing, Ben became a beginner again at the start of 2025 – learning vibe coding from scratch. Within three months, he launched his first SaaS,  CaptAIn, with paying customers. Now he leads the Vibe Coding Cologne community, blending real founder scars with a teacher's clarity to help non-technical founders finally ship.

LEVEL
43
FOUNDER XP
15 Years
KIDS
2
STARTUPS
9
CUSTOMERS
250+
WORKSHOPS
1,000+

SPECIAL SKILLS

Growth Marketing92%
Lead Generation96%
Ad Campaigns94%
Vibe Coding92%
AI Automation94%
Product Development78%
Patience3%

A Personal Message from the Captain

Discover the story behind Pirate Skills and why product & growth should be one craft

Hi, I'm Ben, the founder of Pirate Skills.

I started Pirate Skills in 2016, and after 15 years of building nine startups, I've learned something crucial: splitting product and marketing is a huge mistake. The founders who win are the ones who treat building and growing as one craft—shipping working software fast while running growth experiments that tell you what to build next.

That's why Pirate Skills exists: to help solo founders and lean crews turn ideas into profitable SaaS products without big teams or endless outsourcing. Whether you're productizing a service, launching your first SaaS, or trying to make MRR predictable, I'll teach you to vibe code with AI and run the growth experiments that actually matter— activation, retention, and real PMF signals, not vanity metrics.

Through the Builder Track (vibe coding, ship features) and Grower Track (experiments, optimize revenue), you'll learn to Build → Grow → Repeat as one continuous loop. We teach independence—no done-for-you dependency. You get hands-on courses, live bootcamps, battle-tested playbooks, and a community of founders who are doing it themselves, keeping crews small on purpose.

Pirate Skills is built on my passion for independence and experimentation. It's about enabling you to build software customers truly want and grow predictable MRR without permission. That's what we do here: one craft, lean crews, AI-first—building and growing as one.

So, why join the navy when you can be a pirate? Join me on this journey, and let's build and grow together—one craft, no limits.

AARRR!

Ben Sufiani

Founder & Captain