Growth operator · Creator · Speaker — Tirana

I turn ideas into attention, and attention into customers.

Part poet, part spreadsheet, part builder. I find what's stopping a product from growing, then make the fix myself: the story, the site, the system, the numbers. Then I stay until it works.

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01 — How I work

Guess, check, ship, repeat.

Hypothesis

Guess first

I start with a guess I can be wrong about, then go and find out. A fast wrong answer beats a slow vague one.

Proof

Check it twice

Every number from two sources, every claim tested against the product before it ships. Trust is the only asset that compounds.

Building

Make it myself

Sites, apps, emails, AI agents. If the fix needs building, I build it, instead of writing a ticket and waiting.

Stamina

Stay in the round

Running, training, a business that started with one bike. Most growth happens after most people stop.

10.9Mviews on one video

39.3Kpeople following along

299GetYourGuide reviews for Bike Tirana

2businesses profitable from day one

02 — Work

Different rooms, same fight.

Find what's stopping growth. Build the system that gets past it. Stay until it works.

SaaS · Publer ecosystem

Linkie

A link-in-bio tool up against a giant with 70 million users, and I'm the whole marketing team. So I didn't fight on features. I fought on what the giants ignore: your brand, not ours, private by default. Then I fixed the foundations before shouting about it.

I run the Framer site end to end, from homepage tests and pricing to structured data and analytics. I write the launch emails, sign the creator partnerships, take Linkie to AppSumo and to stages like Future2Tech. Behind it sits a workspace of AI agents I built to research, write and check the work with me.

site health 41 → 88 in 2 weeksFramer site ownerlaunches + emailcreator partnershipsAI-agent workspace

2026 → now

Client · Los Angeles

TriStone Group

A partner-led general contractor in Los Angeles. I run the website, search and social from Tirana: WordPress, Search Console, and carousels that explain why change orders start long before anyone picks up a hammer.

website + SEOLinkedIn + TikTok contentremote, US client

2026 → now

Product · my own

myhabitfriend

A calm social habit tracker I'm building myself: streaks in your own time zone, small groups with live chat, a 90-day look back, and an optional AI summary at the end of each month. Built on Cloudflare, with AI agents as the rest of the team.

designed + built soloAstro + CloudflareAI features

2026

Experiences · Tirana

Bike Tirana

It started with one bike in 2024. Then a few more, a shop with a mural in the Old Bazaar, a team of guides, and routes beyond Tirana. Profitable from day one: two or three tours a day and 10 to 15 riders daily from April to mid-October.

299 reviews on GetYourGuide, averaging 4.86. Marketplaces for discovery, the website for margin, and demand mapped in seven languages, but only sold where a guide can deliver it.

profitable from day one4.86 ★ · 299 reviews10–15 riders a day7 languages

2024 → now

Fitness community · Florence

Fighting & Breathing

Personal and group training with Florence as the backdrop: hills, rooftops, the river in the morning. People came for the workout and stayed for the view and each other. Also profitable from day one.

profitable from day onepersonal + group trainingFlorence, Italy

Italy

Local brands · Tirana

The neighbourhood

Some of the best work happens three streets from home. I've helped Tirana places people already love find a voice online that feels like walking in the door: social media, positioning, and training the team so it keeps working when I'm not in the room.

social mediapositioningteam training

Tirana

03 — Content

Attention, built by hand.

One big video can be luck. Doing it again, on purpose, is a system.

“Here's what I tried, what happened, and what I now believe.”

Instagram · top video10.9M

Idea: what it was
Why: why it spread

Talking head · culture5M

Format: Me, a camera, and an opinion on Albanian culture or politics
Reach: 5M and 3.4M, several more past 300K
Lesson: A clear point of view beats production value

For a brand · slideshow199K

Client: An AI startup for culturally aware therapy
Hook: “7 words that would be impossible to avoid in Albanian therapy”
Result: 89% of views from non-followers, 2.7K interactions

04 — Speaking

On stage, off script.

I talk about growth the way I do it: real numbers, real mistakes, no buzzwords.

UP NEXT

Web Summit

Speaking on a public stage, and representing Linkie on the floor.

SPOKE

Future2Tech, Tirana

How to grow and convert with social media, for Linkie and Publer.

ALWAYS

On camera

Years of talking-head video in English, Italian and Albanian.

What viral content teaches us about attentionTalk
Turning attention into customersTalk
What AI really changes for creators and marketersTalk
Creator instincts for tech productsWorkshop

05 — The long run

Splits, so far.

2026 →

Linkie

One-person growth team for a SaaS product inside Publer.

2026 →

TriStone Group

Website, SEO and content for a Los Angeles general contractor.

2026

myhabitfriend

A social habit tracker I'm designing and building myself.

2024 →

Vera

Helping companies sell more online with viral content, SEO and sales systems.

2024 →

Bike Tirana

One bike, then a shop, a team of guides and routes beyond Tirana. Profitable from day one.

2022

Bus2alps

Intern to product manager and sales leader, running trips across Europe.

2020

Tiranawellness

Co-founded the largest community of active people in Tirana.

Florence

Fighting & Breathing

Training with a view. Profitable from day one.

2014

Siena · Florence · London

Economics on scholarships, finishing with a year at Royal Holloway.

06 — Services

Four ways in.

Pick the door closest to the problem.

07 — About

I'm from Tirana. I learned economics in Italian, marketing on the street, and patience at kilometre 35.

I've sold trips, tours, training sessions and software. The product changes. The job doesn't: make people notice something good, help them understand it, make it easy to buy.

I run marathons and I train like a fighter. Both taught me the same thing about growth: pick a pace you can hold, breathe, and when it hurts, that's usually the part that counts.

Based: Tirana, working with teams anywhere
Speaks: English, Italian, Albanian, some Spanish
Trains: Strength, swimming and running, mornings
Builds: Sites, apps and AI-agent workflows, mostly on Cloudflare
Open to: Growth roles, advisory, talks

08 — Finish line

Got something worth noticing?

Instagram → LinkedIn →

In Lisbon for Web Summit, 9–12 November 2026. Say hi.