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The Pirate Pass

Most Pirate Skills events are free, like Vibe Coding Cologne, the Pirate Labs and AI Compass. The Pirate Pass is how you give something back – and as a thank-you you get every event recording and more CaptAIn.

See what's inside
  • 21 event recordings, with chapters
  • 3,000 gold a month for CaptAIn
  • $30 + VAT a month, cancel after three

Every event recording

Every talk from Vibe Coding Cologne and Pirate Lab, with chapters – 21 recordings and counting. Without the pass you watch the evenings you registered for; with it, all of them.

Browse the library(opens in a new tab)

More CaptAIn

CaptAIn is our AI agent for building and growing your product. It answers from the Pirate Skills playbook and your own venture – with the pass you have the gold to use it every day, and the sharpest models.

An example of a CaptAIn chat.

Question: People sign up for my app but never come back. Where do I look first?

Searched the knowledge

Answer: Find the step where they drop out before you fix anything. Three lessons from the Growth Codex take you there:

  1. 1. Map every step from sign-up to the second visit and count who reaches each one. The biggest drop is your bottleneck. Where we AARRR (lesson in the Growth Codex, opens in a new tab)
  2. 2. Pick one number you can act on – the share of sign-ups still active a week later – and watch it. What we Measure (lesson in the Growth Codex, opens in a new tab)
  3. 3. Welcome every sign-up with a short sequence: a check-in on day 1, something useful on day 3. CRM Workflows (lesson in the Growth Codex, opens in a new tab)

For example: 10 gold · Claude Opus 5.5

3,000 gold a month

Instead of 500 – enough to work with CaptAIn every day. It lands the day your pass starts and refills on the 1st.

  • Free account500
  • Pirate Pass3,000

About 300 answers a month, instead of about 50.

Your pick of models

You choose which model answers. The sharpest are only there with the pass.

  • Claude Sonnet 5.57 gold per 1,000 words
  • Claude Haiku 4.53 gold per 1,000 words
  • GPT-6 Luna1 gold per 1,000 words
  • Claude Opus 5.5With the pass
  • GPT-6 AstraWith the pass
  • GPT-6.1 SolWith the pass

Processed in the EU by default. The model providers keep nothing and never train on what you write.

Meet CaptAIn(opens in a new tab)

Limited-time bonus: a free hackathon ticket, every three months

For now, pass holders also get a single-use code by email when the pass starts. Use it at any Pirate Skills hackathon, or give it to a friend.

About Vibe Hackathon Cologne(opens in a new tab)
Vibe Hackathon20–22 Nov · Cologne

One pass, all of it

The whole library and more CaptAIn, for one monthly price.

Pirate Pass

$30+ VAT a month

Net price – VAT is added at checkout. Monthly, three-month minimum.

  • Every event recording in the Insights library
  • More CaptAIn – 3,000 gold a month
  • Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-6.1 Sol
  • A free hackathon ticket, every three months – for a limited time

Not for you? Full refund of your first month within 14 days – and the three-month minimum is waived.

Questions, answered

Why a Pirate Pass, when the events are free?
Because they stay free. Pirate Lab, AI Compass and Vibe Coding Cologne cost nothing to join, and the Pirate Pass is how you give something back to the crew that runs them. The recordings and the gold are our thank-you.
How does the hackathon ticket bonus work?
It's a bonus for a limited time. When your first month is paid, you get a single-use code by email: a free ticket to any Pirate Skills hackathon. A new code follows every three months while the bonus runs. Use it yourself or give it to someone – the code is not tied to your name.
Can I join just for the ticket?
The ticket code is there for members who build with us – that's the whole idea. If someone clearly joins just to grab tickets and leave, we refund the membership and cancel the ticket. Everyone else: use it, share it, have fun at the hackathon.
What is gold for?
Gold pays for CaptAIn, our AI assistant in the Lab: a typical answer costs about 10 gold, and a tool call from your own agent over MCP or the API costs 1. The Pirate Pass refills your gold to 3,000 every month – about 300 CaptAIn answers or 3,000 tool calls from your own agent. Gold you earn by taking part keeps for a year. What gold is for(opens in a new tab)
How does the three-month minimum work?
The Pirate Pass is monthly and net – VAT is added at checkout. The first three months are the minimum. After that the pass runs month to month and you can cancel any time from your billing page. If you cancel earlier, billing runs to the end of month three and then stops by itself.
What if it's not for me?
Not for you? Full refund of your first month within 14 days – and the three-month minimum is waived.

Anything else? Ask CaptAIn(opens in a new tab) – it knows the pass.