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Vibe coding for CEOs: build the thing yourself, without becoming the person who broke it.

You have the idea, the customers and the budget. What you did not have until recently was a way to build software without waiting on a roadmap, a vendor or a hire. Claude Code and OpenCode changed that. A CEO with a clear head and an afternoon can now ship a working product.

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ROUND 01 — The CEO seat

Why a CEO’s build is different.

The catch is that a CEO's prototype does not stay a prototype. It gets shown to a customer, then sold to one, then handed to a team that has to keep it alive. What was a weekend experiment becomes the thing the company depends on, with nobody having checked how it stores data, who can see it, or what happens when it fails.

This page is about vibe coding from the top seat: what CEOs actually build, where it goes wrong, and how to keep the speed without inheriting the debt.

ROUND 02 — What you build

What CEOs build first.

  • 01The product the roadmap kept pushing

    The feature or standalone product the engineering team could not get to. You build the first version to prove demand, and it works well enough that it ships.

  • 02The investor or board dashboard

    Revenue, pipeline, churn and cash on one screen, pulled straight from the billing and CRM systems, because the monthly deck takes three people two days.

  • 03The customer-facing MVP

    A signup, a paywall and one core workflow. Real people create accounts and pay. This is the one that quietly becomes production.

  • 04The internal tool nobody would prioritise

    Approvals, a request queue, a scheduler. Small, useful, and suddenly relied on by twenty people who never asked for it.

ROUND 03 — What breaks

Where it goes wrong for a CEO.

  • The prototype becomes the product

    You demoed it, a customer bought it, and now the first version, built to look right rather than be right, is what the company sells. Nobody planned the handover because there was never going to be one.

  • The team inherits code nobody understands

    Your engineers, or the ones you hire next, are handed an app with no tests, no documentation and no idea why any decision was made. Every change from here is slower than the first build was.

  • Access is wide open

    The AI built a login because you asked for one. It did not check that user A cannot read user B's data. Your customers' records are one guessed URL away from a stranger, and you would not know.

  • Company secrets live in the code

    API keys, database passwords and payment credentials sitting in the project, pushed to a repository, copied to a laptop. The first person who finds them can act as your company.

The full catalogue of what breaks →

ROUND 04 — With a CTO in your corner

What changes.

A CTO in your corner does not slow you down. Before you prompt, you get the ten-minute conversation about what to build and what not to. Before you show it to a customer, someone has read how it stores data and who can see it. When you hand it to a team, it comes with a written account of what it is and how it works. You keep building at CEO speed. The company stops paying for it later.

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ROUND 05 — By industry

Vibe coding for CEOs, by industry.

The rules change with the data. Pick the industry you build in.

ROUND 06 — Questions

What CEOs ask.

ROUND 07 — Other seats

Not a CEO?

Talk to a CTO before your next build ships.

Thirty minutes, free, no card. What you built, what is going on with it, whether we can help.

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