The things people ask before they register.

No. You need to be comfortable installing software, following precise instructions, and not panicking at an error message. Everything in ComfyUI is built by connecting boxes, not by writing code. Developers will move faster on Day 2; by Day 5 the gap has closed.

Join anyway. On Day 2 we set you up on a cloud GPU that you rent by the hour and switch off when you are finished — it is dramatically cheaper than a monthly subscription, and every other part of the course is identical. Around a third of each cohort starts this way and moves local later.

The software and the open model weights are free, and the models you train are yours. What you pay after the course is electricity, and hard drives when you run out of space. There is no subscription, no per-image charge and nothing to renew. If you choose to rent a cloud GPU instead of buying one, that is metered — but you control the meter.

Open models running on your own machine have no external content filter and no request logging, so legitimate work that hosted tools refuse — swimwear and lingerie campaigns, medical and editorial imagery, political satire, violence in a film context — simply generates. It does not mean anything goes. Consent, likeness rights, Ghana’s Data Protection Act and platform policy all still apply, and material involving minors is illegal everywhere and will get you removed from the course and reported.

Live, online, with your camera on and your screen shared when you get stuck. Every session is recorded and stays available to you afterwards, so a missed evening is a catch-up rather than a hole.

Plan for an hour a night. The sessions are hands-on, so most of the work happens with us — but models download slowly, training runs take time, and the students who practise between evenings are visibly ahead by the second week.

Yes — a Scratchcode Academy certificate on completion. Be clear-eyed about what it is worth, though: in this field the portfolio you finish Day 14 with is the thing that gets you hired.

Yes. You can hold a seat with a deposit and settle the balance before the first session, or split the fee into two payments. Choose the option that suits you on the registration form and we will send the schedule with your confirmation.

If you attend the first two sessions, do the setup work with us, and decide it is not for you, tell us before Day 3 starts and we refund you in full. After Day 3 the model weights, workflows and training material are already in your hands, so the fee is non-refundable.

For the live sessions, 10 Mbps is enough. The heavier requirement is the first week, when you will pull somewhere between 50 and 200 GB of model weights. If your connection is slow, start those downloads the day you enrol — we send the list in advance for exactly this reason.

Scratchcode Academy mentors who build this work commercially, not lecturers reading slides. Cohorts are capped so that everyone gets screen-share time when their install breaks — which, on Day 2, is most people.

Yes. The programme is fully online and the sessions run on GMT, which is workable across Africa, Europe and the Americas. Paystack accepts international cards; if yours is declined, register anyway and we will send an alternative.