AI Strategy
Find the work where AI can create meaningful leverage, then choose the right first project.
Founder of Light School
Nick Sarafa
Creative technologist, AI educator, and business coach based in Lisbon.
Nick has 15 years of software engineering and CTO experience. He now helps founders, creators, and teams turn ideas into working websites, tools, automations, and apps with AI.
Through Light School workshops, programs, team training, and community events, Nick has taught more than 1,300 people AI and business. His approach is hands-on, human-first, and built around a simple principle: people learn by making something real.
What Nick Teaches
Practical AI skills for people who want real outcomes.
Building With AI
Turn an idea into a working website, app, dashboard, or automation without needing a coding background.
Human-First Adoption
Help individuals and teams use powerful technology while keeping judgment, creativity, and purpose at the center.
Selected Writing by Nick
Ideas and practical guides about AI, building, and human potential.
If AI Gives You Anxiety, Good
Why anxiety can become useful fuel when you start building.
Exposure vs. Confidence Super Prompt
A framework for deciding what to automate with AI first.
10,000 Iterations, Not 10,000 Hours
Why fast feedback is changing how people develop mastery.
Give Claude Code a Memory
A practical guide to persistent memory for Claude Code.
The Internet Is Fun Again
How building with AI brought back the joy of making things online.
From Axes to Chainsaws
A way to think about AI as a tool that expands human capability.
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