Peter Benei

Hello, I'm Peter.

I help European founders to scale their ventures globally.

Going global breaks at the same places every time: positioning that only works at home, a marketing team hired before the model is proven, and a founder doing every job at once. I have been on the inside of that as CMO and COO, and that is the work I do with founders now.

I started my career in the advertising industry in Budapest, then London, working on global brands. Then, I switched to work with US & UK-based high-growth scaleups and startups in the B2B tech space as a marketing leader. As a previous mentor at Techstars, now I am giving back to early stage European founders in a form of mentorship and coaching.

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Autonomous Leadership book cover
Book

Autonomous Leadership

Design the system. Let it run. Fifty theses, five principles, and one system for leading teams where AI does the execution and the leader builds what runs without them.

Projects

Services

Mentorship

For early stage founders building B2B tech companies in Europe. We work through positioning, go-to-market, your first marketing hires, and the story you tell investors. This is how I give back.

Consulting

Paid engagements for a small number of selected clients. Growth, marketing operations, and startup scaling: the systems, the team, and the numbers behind them.

Track record

Tatum
Raised $41.5M during my tenure as CMO.
Anyblock Analytics
Acquired by Blockdaemon during my tenure.
KISSPatent
Launched the IP consulting practice and the KISSPlatform product offer.
Sapient and other agencies
Global campaign launches for Adobe, Denon, Microsoft, HP, and McLaren.
Karmamedia, my own agency
Local brand campaigns for Vodafone, T-Mobile, and McDonald's.

Contact

Email me at or connect on LinkedIn or X. I read everything, and I reply to the ones I can help with.

Updates

The latest from my newsletters, in one place.

AI-Ready Europe

A customer walked out on Mistral

Open weights, grid queues, €30 billion of public compute.

Oct 12, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Xyzal's owl is AI, and so are 20,000 other assets

Opella's in-house team generates the mascot, and has shipped 20,000 pieces of content with the same tools

Oct 12, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Apple just switched off part of your attribution

iOS 27 blocks the ID vendors your dashboards lean on

Oct 12, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Gartner says AI could cut your junior rung. Should it?

Most top marketing teams could cut the bottom rung by 2030. Then who becomes your next director?

Oct 09, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Standard Chartered built its F1 world with AI

Real photography, AI environments, race weekend timing

Oct 09, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

ChatGPT ads have a measurement problem

Form fills arriving, zero conversions reported. Budgets stuck at test level.

Oct 08, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Bombardier put an AI eagle in a wind tunnel

3D models, generative AI and a lesson in turbulence

Oct 08, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Google wants a human to check your AI copy

Every draft, every meta tag, and no fake author headshots.

Oct 07, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Beekeeper's Naturals animated its own customers

Hand-drawn art, AI in the animation, real voices

Oct 07, 2026

Anywhere Italy

Perugia | The City upon a Hill

Umbria's capital is two cities stacked on a hill

Oct 06, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

McDonald's wants AI to price your Big Mac

$5.69 at one Fresno store, $6.89 two miles away. Customers notice that kind of thing.

Oct 06, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Behind The Gloves made its boxing film with AI

No budget, no shoot, and still a full production pipeline

Oct 06, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Ambassador Cruise Line skipped the ship shoot

AI and CGI on footage the brand already owned

Oct 05, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Amazon wants to run your media plan now

You pick the products, the creative and the budget. Its AI picks everything else.

Oct 05, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Some clients have banned AI completely

Including the assistant inside their own office software.

Oct 02, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Gartner counted 130 real agent vendors

Out of thousands selling it

Oct 01, 2026

AI-Ready Ads

Otis Redding looms over Macon again

Shot live in the city, legends added in post

Sep 30, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Amazon threw Meta's shopping agent out

The complaint that matters: the bot will not say who it is.

Sep 30, 2026

AI-Ready CMO

Rightmove gets 0.5% of visits from AI

200 million visits a month, 85% of them direct, and a CMO preparing anyway.

Sep 29, 2026