(2025-06-06) Category Pirates The Pirates Guide To Ai How To Build With Ai Like Its The Greatest Cofounder Youve Ever Hadpart1

CategoryPirates: The Pirate's Guide To AI: How To Build With AI Like It's The Greatest Co-Founder You’ve Ever Had [Part 1]. We’re entrepreneurs, writers, strategists, and Category Designers. We’re Pirates from the future helping you succeed now. And into the future. AI is a big part of how you’ll create a new and different future.

The Non-Obvious is to treat AI like a person.

AI is a partner.

A co-founder.

In some ways, AI can be a more helpful co-founder than any human

it’s not about the machine.

It’s about what happens when something (or someone) is fully committed to the mission.

But this only works if you treat AI like a co-founder. Co-founders have conversations. They coach, they cheer each other on, and they confront.

That’s what AI can do.

If you talk to it like a co-founder.

AI is the first technology that’s about creating with information in conversation

If you treat AI like an object, you’ll get object-level output.

If you treat AI like a person, you unlock exponential.

AI is coming for the middle management Knowledge Workers—the competent but not creative.

If you’re resting and vesting, you’re screwed.

If you’re 50 and not in the C-suite, you’re screwed.

If you’re a new grad who doesn’t get this, you’re screwed.

Here’s how we’ll help you do it:

Shift the lens from AI as a tool to AI as a thinking partner

Frame the mindset AI as your co-founder, coach, and creative amplifier

Design the matrix so you can deploy AI across near-, mid-, and long-term problems for your job, company, and career

Spot the 9 pitfalls that make AI a toy, not a teammate

Build with clarity using the simplest way to go from friction → pattern → process → outcome