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We measure success one way: can the team run it without us? These are the ones who can.
Sara Simeone, Founder of NoCodeLab, is a finalist in the Top 25 for The Future of Services category at the prestigious Investec Early-Stage Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (ESEYs), chosen from a field of several thousand remarkable applicants across the country.
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Why AI adoption needs people, processes and a clear business case. At Salesforce Tower in Dublin, IDA Ireland brought together founders, technology leaders and ecosystem partners to discuss scaling in a world of AI. Our takeaways from Anthropic, Jentic and Scale Ireland: start narrow, involve your sceptics, and remember that AI adoption is only the first step towards real business outcomes.
Funding, growth and AI took centre stage at Ladies Who Launch at Stripe’s Dublin HQ. From building a business with an exit in mind to pricing AI products and choosing the right funding route, here are five practical lessons from Ireland’s leading founders and investors.
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In August 2026 I flew to Santorini for a few quiet days at Thimari Lodge. No laptop agenda. No client calls in the diary. Just sun, sea, and a fairly solemn promise to do as little as possible.
From today, 3 August 2026, EU AI Act training obligations become enforceable, and this isn't just an EU issue. If your staff, customers, or AI outputs touch the EU, you're in scope, wherever you're based. It's a best-efforts duty, not perfection: list your tools, note who uses what, run one session, write it down. We've written a full playbook and a free AI Literacy Register template to help you get started today. We work hard to keep our community up to date on the things that actually matter. This is one of them!
Every growing business eventually hits the same wall: the systems that built you can't scale with you. For PeopleObsessed, a boutique New York recruiting agency, that wall looked like hundreds of weekly freelancer invoices, five disconnected platforms, and one operations manager holding it all together. When Karla Carranza decided to pursue her master's degree, founder Rose Steinberg refused to choose between her team and her growth. Here's how NoCodeLab helped.
Brain fog doesn't discriminate by career stage. From new parenthood to menopause at leadership's peak, our capability hasn't diminished; our biology is asking for support. Using AI isn't a defensive shield. It's a sophisticated, highly strategic offensive play using modern technology, creating reliable, external cognitive scaffolds. We simply require strategic leverage while our biological systems recalibrate.
We spent two days at Climb26 running three hands-on workshops and speaking on two stage panels. The pattern that stood out: people weren't unsure whether AI could help their business, they just hadn't had the twenty minutes to see it for themselves. Here's what we saw when they did.
Climb26 is the UK's premier festival of business growth and innovation, taking place on 1 and 2 July 2026 at Leeds Dock. It brings together thousands of founders, investors, and business leaders for two days of keynotes, roundtables, and high-quality networking. Partners include Google, Meta, NatWest, Innovate UK, and the British Business Bank. If you are serious about growing your business, this is where you need to be.
Manchester company NoCodeLab.ai gives board-level leaders a practical method for turning their own expertise into an AI advantage.
A response to the Interim Government Response to the AI Champions’ AI Adoption Plans
North West agency launches new tool to navigate AI search shift
Re: Young People and Work Interim Report - Response from NoCodeLab
Antonio Putrino, Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana (Knight of the Italian Republic), former CFO and COO of the European Vocational Training Association, and recipient of the Stella della Solidarietà Italiana (Star of Italian Solidarity) awarded by the President of the Italian Republic, made a bet in 2025 that most people in AI missed entirely. Instead of targeting corporates and boardrooms, he connected NoCodeLab with ENAIP, Italy's leading vocational training network operating across 180 centres nationwide, and asked what would happen if you put real AI tools in the hands of vocational school students and their teachers. Days later, companies were offering internships voluntarily. This is the story of what happened, and why it matters.
When Jamie Sergeant, Global CEO of creative agency Crowd, met NoCodeLab's Sara Simeone in 2025, he had one objective: transform Crowd into a genuinely AI-native agency. Not AI-adjacent. Not AI-curious. AI-native. What followed was a company-wide capability programme, a proprietary product built from original research, and a new revenue stream that didn't exist twelve months ago.
Some of the best collaborations begin over coffee. This one began on the Cambridge riverside, where NoCodeLab co-founder Deborah Cleary first met Damian Mears, introduced by a mutual contact who suspected the two would have a great deal to talk about. They did.
I Spent $15 Taking an AI Agent from Idea to Production-Ready. Here's Everything I Learned.
Twenty percent of UK small businesses fail in their first year. Sixty percent are gone within three. Those are not abstract statistics. They represent ideas that never made it, founders who ran out of runway, and teams that gave everything and still came up short.
In December 2025, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall, launched the Women in Tech Taskforce to address the systemic barriers that prevent women from entering, progressing, and leading in the tech sector. In March 2026, the Taskforce opened a call for evidence, asking organisations and individuals across the UK to share what they know about what works, what doesn't, and what needs to change.
How Caroline Stevenson went from stuck non-technical founder to building a therapy platform, and why the NoCodeLab.ai community made all the difference.
You've created and tested your prototype. Now you're ready to deploy. This is how NoCodeLab.ai and COCO Software can help.
When Mark Horsham left the military, he never imagined he would one day be teaching fellow veterans to build digital applications and tools using artificial intelligence. Yet in February 2026, that is exactly what happened, when a group of UK veterans with no technical background sat down together and built working digital applications and tools using AI-assisted coding in a single session.
This Wednesday, we are heading to Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, and we would love you to join us.
Initial pilot shows veterans with no technical background building working digital applications using AI-assisted coding. Findings and plans for a national programme to be shared with parliamentarians and industry leaders on 6 March.
An interview with Brian Lancaster, Co-Owner of Projex Cellular Infrastructure. When Brian Lancaster and his colleague completed a management buyout of Projex Cellular Infrastructure nearly two years ago, he gained more than just ownership. He gained the freedom to digitally transform a business that had been running on manual processes for over a decade.
NoCodeLab.ai returned to Manchester for the Vibe Coding Masterclass at Digital Skills Festival 2026 - AI Future Day organised by Manchester Digital. Sold out - the session proved something powerful: when you give brilliant people the right tools and process, building becomes the easy part. Two hours later, every participant had made a clickable prototype and gained the confidence to keep building.
NoCodeLab.ai at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy's UK Forum on Cultural Diplomacy 2026: "Strengthening Democracy, Women's Leadership, Impactful Development and Security"
Davide Pagnotta, an alumnus of NoCodeLab.ai's pioneering accelerator programme, is using AI-powered development to transform workplace culture through his company Wise Humanity
What sets Lavinia Osbourne apart isn't just her accolades; it's her belief that blockchain's promise of equality and accessibility must be actively built, not just discussed. When she discovered NoCodeLab.ai, she embraced a new chapter in her professional development with characteristic enthusiasm, creating six innovative (and incredible) digital products in just three months.
Three months ago, we set an ambitious target: train 1,000 people in AI-assisted development by the end of the year.
Cheshire’s entrepreneurs and business owners are invited to discover how artificial intelligence can transform ideas into real-world, clickable digital product.
In 2025, NoCodeLab partnered with Superteam UK to bridge the gap between technical developers and non-technical Web3 innovators. By bringing the "Vibe Coding" methodology to London, Birmingham, and Manchester, the programme empowered participants from diverse backgrounds - including DeFi and gaming - to build and deploy working MVPs on the Solana blockchain in just a single day.
How Zahra Bhatti Turned Her Wellness Vision Into a Digital Reality
NoCodeLab.ai joins elite industry partners to remove coding barriers and strengthen Greater Manchester's digital supercluster
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