# Lightfast [](LICENSE) ## Mission Lightfast studies how people, machines, and artificial intelligence can work together to develop consequential physical technologies. ## Vision We study a central question: How should people and machines work together as scientific and engineering teams develop physical systems? --- Our approach is to work alongside teams in real research and development environments. We identify a specific human-machine interaction worth studying or improving, design and test possible systems, and turn what generalizes into research, tooling, infrastructure, or products. See [SPEC.md](SPEC.md). ## Contributing See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). ## Community - [Discord](https://discord.gg/YqPDfcar2C) - [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/lightfastai/lightfast/issues) - [Twitter](https://x.com/lightfastai) ## License Lightfast is open source: - **Platform** (apps, API routers, database, internal packages): [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE). - **SDKs and shared libraries** (`core/*`, `vendor/*`, UI kit, shared utilities): MIT License (see each package's `LICENSE` file or `package.json`).