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AI isn’t here to take your job. It’s here to scale your Superpower—if you know how to build with it.
The Pirate’s Guide to AI isn’t a “how-to” manual. It’s a strategic reframe. A new lens on AI—not as a bolt-on or productivity tool, but as a Creative Co-Founder that thinks, coaches, and creates alongside you.
Just like a great co-founder, AI isn’t there to follow instructions. It’s there to challenge your assumptions and turn sparks into systems.
In this mini-book, we show you how the best category designers use AI across three horizons:
Near-term: Solve the obvious pain points faster.
Mid-term: Unblock the bottlenecks stalling growth.
Long-term: Co-invent moonshots and design the future.
We also share 9 hard-earned (and painful) lessons from building with AI the wrong way—so you don’t waste months of momentum (or thousands of dollars) belly-flopping through dead-end experiments.
Whether you're a solopreneur, founder, operator, or marketer, this audiobook gives you the mindset and method to turn AI into your smartest hire—without giving up your edge.
If you're ready to stop dabbling and start designing with AI, this is your category compass.
