The Founder Track · AI-Native Pathway
The Founder Track
An AI-native pathway for high-school students. In 3–5 months your child builds an AI project of their own, incubates it into a registered company, and ends up holding a portfolio a university admissions officer can open — taught from a case library of 584 real projects in the LIGHT HOPE ecosystem, every one of them something people actually shipped.
Three Tracks
Pick the track your child is already drawn to. Each one is taught from real projects that already exist in the ecosystem, and maps to the Stanford departments it feeds.
Cases
m425 Dialogues with Medical Masters · m320–344 Evidence-Based Navigation Matrix · m504 Family Health Assistant · m516/m519 Longevity & Vitality
Stanford fit
Human Biology · Bioengineering · Biomedical Data Science
Cases
m638 Bridge of Cultures · m524 CalmFaith · m9101 Spiritual & Cultural Memory Dynamics · m526 Civilization Compass
Stanford fit
Religious Studies · Anthropology · Symbolic Systems
Cases
m637 MatchTwin (football.x1000.ai) · m200 Task Hall live dispatch
Stanford fit
MS&E · CS-AI · Human Biology
Six Phases
Aligned with Stanford d.school design thinking + Lean Startup + YC Startup School. Finishing a phase unlocks the next one, and each phase ships a piece of the portfolio.
Understand what AI actually is, try tasks from all three tracks, and arrive at an interest weighting and a first read on Stanford fit. The 7-day trial sits here.
d.school design thinking: define a problem worth solving, taken from a real pain point in the chosen track.
Lean Startup: build the first working AI product (MVP).
Real users, real debugging, real evaluation — the build-measure-learn loop.
YC-style incubation: form the company, plan for it to last, and complete incorporation under guardian authorization.
The portfolio goes live (ready to submit with university applications) and is mapped to the Stanford departments it fits.
The Outcome
One AI project · one registered company · one portfolio for university applications
This is not a course your child sits through. The Founder Track ends in things that exist: an AI product real users have tried, a company registered under guardian authorization, and a versioned, citable portfolio. That is the "already shipped" signal admissions officers almost never get to see.
Programmes worldwide that we take as method references — mentorship, real projects, university-application outcomes: Stanford AI4ALL · Inspirit AI · MIT Launch · Leangap · Polygence · Pioneer.co · Horizon Academic. What we add: a case pool of 584 ecosystem projects, and a loop that runs all the way from idea to an incorporated company.
Enrollment · Guardians
A 7-day free trial, reviewed and signed for by a guardian. The student starts in Discover; the family decides before the full pathway opens.
View pricing (guardian) · 查看定价(监护人)Hidden from the student by default
The guardian is the payer; the student never pays. Publishing the portfolio requires the guardian to complete age confirmation.