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What we learn building and growing with AI – as guides, and recorded at our events: Vibe Coding Cologne and Pirate Lab.

October

The Vibe Design Process I'm Addicted To

Guide · 5 OctA full-time designer used to be out of reach for a small team. With Claude Code or Codex, a design round now takes minutes – so you get a real brand from day one, and agents that build faster.

September

Navigating AI Governance and Compliance in Business

Guide · 28 SepMost companies can't name the person responsible for their AI. Nur Aslan on why governance is a role, not a brake – and what a small team should do on Monday.

Finally, Your Mobile App in a Weekend

Guide · 22 SepA mobile app used to take months and tens of thousands of euros. Here's how your vibe-coded web app becomes a real iPhone and Android app in a weekend – with agents doing the store paperwork.

Open Your Vault to Agents

Guide · 14 SepYour website is a teller who needs to see a face. Here's how a vibe-coded Next.js app lets your users' agents discover, sign up and check out – safely.

Stop Babysitting What You Built

Pirate Lab · 9 Sep · Ben Sufiani

The Self-Driving Startup

Guide · 9 SepStop babysitting what you built. One queue, agents that find, agents that finish, and you answering questions on your own time.

Build the ad dashboard the platform cannot give you

Vibe Coding Cologne · 2 Sep · Ben Sufiani, Gianna, Paul, Marcus, Alexa Scheffler

August

Vibe Code Your Ad Reporting Stack

Guide · 31 AugMeta only tells you 70% of the truth. Marcus Haas and Paul Anduschus cancelled the $300-a-month dashboard their industry calls mandatory and rebuilt it themselves – three skills, one morning automation, no database and no developer.

Navigating AI Compliance for Teams That Want to Ship

Guide · 27 Aug"We're not allowed to use AI" stops more projects than the law does. Dr. Alexa Scheffler builds compliance software for regulated industries – and her read of the EU AI Act is that it doesn't forbid you from using AI. Its first requirement is that your people learn to.

Build It for One. Sell It to Many.

Guide · 24 AugGianna Hodel built a dashboard for a single client. The moment a third person looked at it, it stopped being a favour and started being a business.

What's Possible Beyond ChatGPT

Guide · 18 AugTake one thing you do every week and walk it from chat, to co-work, to code – with the honest ceiling of each level.

Make feedback part of the product loop

Pirate Lab · 12 Aug · Ben Sufiani

Build the tool your business is missing

Vibe Coding Cologne · 5 Aug · Ben + 5 guest speakers

Vibe Coding the Tools Your Business Is Missing

Guide · 3 AugA live vibe coding log – building HackBase, the participant platform my hackathon actually needs, in Base44, one session at a time.

July

A company brain made of files that stay useful

Pirate Lab · 15 Jul · Ben Sufiani

A Company AI Brain for Non-Techies

Guide · 14 JulThe pragmatic, no-code memory layer that turns your scattered context – CRM, calendar, inbox – into a company brain your AI reads and updates.

Build the deck where the evidence already lives

Pirate Lab · 8 Jul · Ben Sufiani

Build Better Pitch Decks with AI

Guide · 7 JulThe full process behind our pre-seed deck – investor research, honest slides and a cohort financial model – built and steered in one Claude Code conversation.

June

Vibe Code Your A/B Tests

Guide · 22 JunRun your first real A/B test this week – vibe-coded in one Claude Code session through PostHog, measured to the conversion that matters, and decided the honest way when significance is out of reach.

Let the ad review arrive before you ask

Pirate Lab · 17 Jun · Ben Sufiani

Let a Claude /loop Run Your Meta Ads

Guide · 15 JunBuild complex Meta campaigns in minutes, not hours in Business Manager – then put them on a loop that optimizes exactly as far as you allow.

Build analytics around the truth, not one dashboard

Pirate Lab · 10 Jun · Ben Sufiani

Vibe Code Your Analytics Setup

Guide · 8 JunGet clarity before you spend: the four-pillar, consent-first tracking stack that turns a small ad budget into a fast read on your funnel.

Bring the funnel into the product

Vibe Coding Cologne · 3 Jun · Ben Sufiani, Lydia Penkert, Patrick

Vibe Code Your Marketing Funnel

Guide · 1 JunLanding pages, lead magnets and follow-up sequences – assembled by the same agent that already knows your strategy and your story.

May

The Content Skill That Ships for You Daily

Guide · 25 MayThe first-time setup of an agentic content marketing skill – walked through with a real SaaS, then handed to an autonomous agent for the 7-day cadence you only review.

Give your builder the other half of the business

Pirate Lab · 20 May · Ben Sufiani

Why Growth Strategy Belongs in Your Codebase

Guide · 18 MayAgents don't lack capability – they lack context. Once your builder and growth knowledge lives in one searchable place, a new level of performance unlocks.

Founder mode without becoming the bottleneck

Pirate Lab · 13 May · Ben Sufiani

AI Founder Mode for the Rest of Us

Guide · 11 MayThe operating system for small but mighty teams – where every process is a skill, the codebase is the knowledge base, and a few augmented humans run the company with a crew of agents.

Skip the scaffolding and build the part that matters

Vibe Coding Cologne · 6 May · Ben Sufiani, Tamara, Thomas, Chris, Nico

The Pirate Launch Kit for Your Next Agentic SaaS

Guide · 4 MayNext time you sit down to build, skip the 80% scaffolding every AI app needs anyway – and put your weekend into the part only you can build.

April

Build & Grow Your Way To More MRR

Guide · 21 AprWhat I learned at Rob Walling's MicroConf Portland 2026 about the two biggest factors behind every growing SaaS.

Not Zero-Human, But Augmented-Human

Guide · 13 AprThe world doesn't need more soulless slop. We need focused, AI-empowered teams who can build the things only they would dare to build.

What happened when an AI agent got a real job

Pirate Lab · 8 Apr · Ben Sufiani

Our First OpenClaw Teammate

Guide · 6 AprWhat an always-on AI agent actually does for a small but mighty team – from daily briefings and pipeline checks to code deploys and tax admin.

Build the product, keep sight of the person

Vibe Coding Cologne · 1 Apr · Ben Sufiani, Simonetta, Su, Andrei, Josua

March

How We Built an AI Startup in 48 Hours

Guide · 30 MarEvery product decision and tech choice we made as a non-technical couple to go from 💍 to the wedding planner of our dreams.

The AI Skill Path for Founders

Guide · 23 MarFind your level, see what it already unlocks, and follow a clear path to the next one.

Build the magic before the machinery

Pirate Lab · 18 Mar · Ben Sufiani

The Pirate Launch Plan

Guide · 16 MarFrom zero to shipped and launched on a weekend – for vibe coders who want an AI-native tech stack, zero security surprises, and the freedom to scale.

Turn one article into every content channel

Pirate Lab · 11 Mar · Ben Sufiani

The Vibe Marketing Stack That Grows

Guide · 9 MarEverything it takes to build an AI-native customer acquisition engine that works for you day and night.

The moment your website starts listening

Vibe Coding Cologne · 4 Mar · Ben Sufiani, Svenja Borgwardt, Paul, Anna

AI for Muggles

Guide · 2 MarGet started by building a website that changes when you talk to it. All it takes is a little vibe coding magic.

February

Vibe Code Your Real Work

Guide · 23 FebHow building small tools for your everyday tasks frees up time and energy – while raising both the quantity and quality of your output.

Choose a vibe-coding stack that can grow with you

Pirate Lab · 18 Feb · Ben Sufiani

The Vibe Coding Stack That Ships

Guide · 16 FebThe 7 tool decisions you make once that you'll never outgrow. Choose yours and leave with a blueprint you can build any SaaS on.

Build an AI operating system for your company

Pirate Lab · 11 Feb · Ben Sufiani

Meet Jarvis, My Vibe Manager

Guide · 9 FebThe AI workflow that keeps me sane, organized, and productive as a founder. The exact setup with Context + Cursor + Linear MCP.

Message Testing with AI Creatives

Guide · 2 FebGenerate strong angles, test with AI generated images and videos, and scale what converts. The complete workflow to test 3-6 messages in one week.

January

A Marketer's Journey: Embracing AI in the SaaS World

Guide · 29 JanFor non-technical marketers wondering how to actually use AI without feeling overwhelmed – permission to go slow and focus on what moves the needle.

My First 365 Days of Vibe Coding

Guide · 26 JanWhat it's actually like learning to build real products without a CTO – the tools that worked, the mistakes I made, and what I'd do differently if I started again.

Cut the scope until the value ships

Pirate Lab · 21 Jan · Ben Sufiani

Ship Something Complete Every Week

Guide · 19 JanFor builders and marketers tired of half-finished projects piling up – the scope rule that turns building into progress your users can actually feel.

Make one customer journey earn the next

Pirate Lab · 14 Jan · Ben Sufiani

The Calm Builder Funnel: One Channel. One Journey. One Offer.

Guide · 12 JanFor builders and marketers drowning in complexity who want one system that works – clarity before scale, signal before noise.

You don't need a better idea, you need one you will commit to

Guide · 4 JanFor founders stuck in ideation mode. By Sunday, you'll have committed to one idea and validated your first assumption.