Taieb Bendai

You’ve got abusiness to run.I’ve got this.

Taieb Bendai smiling at the camera in a navy overshirt.
Taieb Bendai. In your corner.Between Germany and Spain.
Working across borders.

I’m Taieb. I take ownership of the technical side—whether you need a fractional CTO, a product built, or AI automation that takes work off your team.

For founders and established businesses. You work directly with me; when the job needs a team, I build and lead it.

Tell me what’s on your plate

Enough talk. Here’s the work.

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Varea

CTO. Built the engineering team.

From spoken terms to
a connected real-estate deal.

I’m Varea’s CTO, and I built the engineering team behind it. Together, we took a voice prototype into a real-estate transaction platform spanning contract creation, negotiation, signatures and workspaces for agents on both sides of a deal. My work connects conversational AI, property data, contract rules and related documents. We also built the tools behind the product: a studio for configuring forms and workflows, plus call traces and replay for investigating AI behaviour. I lead the architecture and delivery, stay hands-on in the engineering, and work directly with agents as they start using it.

I also wrote technical material for the US provisional patent application filed in March 2026.

The system behind Varea
Built the teamLed the architectureConnected AI to delivery
Inside the product.Select a screen to take a closer look
The deal dashboard
Voice into contract fields
Review and signature
Varea for iOS. Screens from the public App Store listing.View on the App Store ↗

Where I can take the lead.

Fractional CTO

You need a CTO.
You don’t need one full-time.

The product needs direction. Technical decisions keep landing on your desk. You need someone who can make the calls and take responsibility for what happens next.

I take ownership of priorities, architecture and delivery. I can be your first technical leader, lead your existing developers, or build the team you need. I stay hands-on where it matters. You know what we’re building, why it matters and where things stand.

What this looks like in practice

Let’s talk about the CTO your business needs

AI automation

The work keeps coming.
Your team needs room to breathe.

Your people spend too much time finding information, copying between systems and chasing the next step. The work piles up, and customers wait.

I build automation around the way your business actually works: connected systems, internal AI tools, voice agents and workflows that get things done. We start with a specific bottleneck, agree how to judge the improvement and test it with your team. Training, support and where a person needs to step in are part of the plan.

What this looks like in practice

Show me where the work gets stuck

MVP & product
development

Your idea deserves
a proper first shot.

You want something people can use. You also want to avoid spending months and money building things they don’t need.

I help decide what the first release needs to prove, make the technical calls and lead the build. You see working versions along the way, get feedback from real users and have a clear next step after launch. I can work with your developers or bring the team.

What this looks like in practice

Let’s work out your first version

More of the work.

All the project stories

Fractional CTO

Conductr

A technical partner for a renewable-energy platform.

Product direction, architecture and AWS Activate cloud credits.

Conductr · documents for an energy project. Project files stay together as developers and expert partners work through the project.
Conductr · documents for an energy projectProject files stay together as developers and expert partners work through the project.Official product preview

Renewable-energy projects need developers, experts and documents to work together. I led the move beyond no-code. As fractional CTO, I shape product priorities and connect partner, document and commercial workflows. I also secured AWS Activate cloud credits.

Read the story: Conductr

Co-founder & former CTO · Startup mentor

CodeCooperation

I built the company that built the products.

31 engineers. Six teams. 20+ startups and products.

CodeCooperation colleagues gathered outdoors for a team photograph.
The team behind the products.I built and led the engineering organisation behind the products. Here are the people who made the work happen.Team photograph · CodeCooperation’s archived 2024 company presentation

I built the engineering organisation across Germany and Tunisia. Our products served businesses choosing music, families finding care and clinicians connecting with interpreters. I led architecture and delivery, mentored founders, and co-authored the published Translatly study.

Read the story: CodeCooperation
Internal AI application demonstration with a PDF document and an answer referencing Impower property records and Casavi tasks.
One question. Documents and systems together.An internal AI workspace built around the team’s documents, Impower and Casavi. This example shows a property question, its sources and the next step.Actual application interface · illustrative conversation with synthetic data

Technology partner · Business AI & automation

Verwaltungspartner Nord

The whole operation was the brief.The team needed help across the working day: finding property information, sorting emails, handling calls and producing marketing material. I built an internal GPT for working with documents and property systems, Outlook email classification, telephone workflows and a studio that turns property photos into marketing videos. I connected the systems behind that work, giving the team tools for the whole operation.

Read the story: Verwaltungspartner Nord
Skillbid · ask the expert, or their AI. My public profile shows mentor-specific AI alongside paid questions and consultations.
Skillbid · ask the expert, or their AIMy public profile shows mentor-specific AI alongside paid questions and consultations.Live product · captured October 2026

Fractional CTO · Product & engineering

Skillbid

An expert marketplace with payments and mentor AI.I took responsibility for Skillbid’s product engineering: expert onboarding, paid questions, consultations, payments and operations. I built mentor-specific AI chat and carried the work into public beta. As fractional CTO, I continue to shape the product priorities and technical decisions behind the business.

Read the story: Skillbid
FairPlay Digital’s current company website, headed Strategy that ships.
FairPlay DigitalThe company where I lead software and AI: offers, processes, team and delivery.Visit fairplay-digital.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Software & AI lead

FairPlay Digital

They needed a department. I took the lead.FairPlay wanted to expand its software and AI capability. They brought me in to lead it: shaping client offers, establishing delivery processes and defining the team and skills each project needs. I connect what we promise clients to how the team delivers—from the first conversation to technical review.

Read the story: FairPlay Digital
Mira · from call to follow-up. Telephone requests become structured summaries, transcripts and tasks for the practice team.
Mira · from call to follow-upTelephone requests become structured summaries, transcripts and tasks for the practice team.Real interface · demonstration data

Product & technical partner · Medical AI

Praxis Ballo & Böck

From dictation and phone calls to work the team can act on.I built Medikta to turn German medical dictation into editable letters for clinician review and team handoff. Doctors used it regularly. Alongside it, I developed Mira: telephone intake and a follow-up dashboard tested with the practice team. Mira is the product shown here.

Read the story: Praxis Ballo & Böck

How we start

Bring me
the messy version.

  1. Tell me what’s going on.

    What you want to achieve, what’s getting stuck and what you’ve tried. You don’t need to translate it into a technical brief.

  2. We agree the first move.

    I propose where to start, what I’ll take responsibility for and what it costs. If we need an assessment first, you’ll know what you’re paying for.

  3. You see the work move forward.

    Clear priorities, regular conversations and working versions when we’re building. You know what’s happening and where I need your input.

Tell me what you’re dealing with

I’m an engineer.
I think like an owner.

Building software since 2015.

My father was an engineer. I started putting computers together as a kid. Eventually, that became software, architecture and product work on Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen projects through diconium—and then a company of my own.

As co-founder and CTO of CodeCooperation, I built the engineering organisation and worked with founders bringing their products to life. Today, I also hold equity in several startups I work with. I have a personal stake in what happens after we ship.

That’s how I approach your business, too. I want to understand what’s worth building, what can wait and what will make a difference. I’ll challenge an idea if I think it needs it. You should challenge mine, too.

From mentoring founders to published research. I mentored startups through Founder Institute. I also led Translatly’s software architecture and development through CodeCooperation and co-authored its peer-reviewed study in JMIR Formative Research.

Read the study (opens in a new tab) The Translatly story

Ask me about the fight in Thailand.

I train Muay Thai, and I’ve stepped into the ring in Thailand. I speak five languages, have lived in several countries and split my time between Germany and Spain. Get me started on real estate or investing and we might need a longer conversation.

Taieb, in red gloves, throwing a punch toward his opponent during a Muay Thai fight in Thailand.
In the ring in Thailand. I’m in the red gloves.
The longer story, on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

Before you ask.

Will I work with you or be handed to a team?

You work directly with me. If the work needs more people, I build or lead the team and stay responsible for the technical direction. We agree my involvement and who does what before we start.

Can you take over an existing product or work with our developers?

Yes. I can step in as your first technical leader, work with your developers or coordinate with an agency. I start by understanding what’s there, then decide with you what to keep, improve or change.

How do we agree the budget?

It depends on the responsibility, scope and time involved. Ongoing CTO work and a defined build need different arrangements. After we talk, I propose the scope, fee and review points. Any paid assessment is agreed separately before it begins.

What happens after launch?

We plan for that before we build. Depending on what you need, I can stay involved in development and technical leadership, arrange support, or hand the work over with documentation and training. You’ll know which is included.

What’s on
your plate?

A product to launch. Technical decisions you need someone to own. Work your team shouldn’t still be doing by hand.

Tell me what’s going on. I’ll give you my honest view on where I can help.

Or find me on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

Straight to me.

Send me a few lines here. I’ll reply to your email.

Your enquiry

What are you building or trying to fix? A few lines is enough.

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