Canada
Nick Saraev is a Canada-based entrepreneur and educator who built his content profile on the back of genuine agency experience — founding two service businesses that scaled to substantial combined monthly revenue before turning to content creation and education full-time.
Total Followers +10.5%
1.1M
Across YouTube, Instagram
Primary Platform
YouTube
498K followers · 44% of audience
Engagement
3.5%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Macro
Est. $9.5K–$22K / IG post
In a 'building in public' blog post, Saraev announced the goal starting from ~307K subscribers, framing it as a deliberate accountability challenge — the same approach he used when publicly targeting $4M/year in revenue, which he says he hit.
Maker School, Saraev's $184/month AI automation community on Skool, topped the platform's competitive leaderboard. The community has grown to roughly 2,800 paying members with a '90-day first client or money back' guarantee.
| Window | YouTube | Combined | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +4K +0.8% | +14K +2.2% | +0 +0.0% | +18K |
| Last 30 days | +24K +4.8% | +95K +15.0% | +0 +0.0% | +119K |
| Last 90 days | +87K +17.4% | +164K +25.8% | +0 +0.0% | +251K |
| Last 365 days | +87K +17.4% | +164K +25.8% | +0 +0.0% | +251K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N8N Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Feb 2026 | — |
| Maker School Education / Courses | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — | |
| Anthropic AI / Technology | Sponsored content | YouTube | Long-term | — |
| Wix SaaS / Web Tools | Sponsored content | YouTube | Long-term | — |
Nick Saraev is a Canada-based entrepreneur and educator who built his content profile on the back of genuine agency experience — founding two service businesses that scaled to substantial combined monthly revenue before turning to content creation and education full-time. His YouTube and Instagram presence centers on practical AI tooling: Claude Code, N8N automation, and the emerging "vibe coding" movement that enables non-traditional developers to build functional software using language models. Content is tutorial-heavy and tool-specific rather than theoretical, reflected in a hashtag ecosystem devoted almost entirely to hands-on AI coding, API integrations, and UI design workflows.
Through Maker School, his flagship education product, he channels audience intent toward a concrete outcome: landing an AI freelance client within 90 days. That positioning attracts a heavily male, working-age following concentrated in the 25–44 bracket. His N8N sponsorship aligns cleanly with the automation stack he actively teaches, lending the partnership credibility rather than the appearance of a generic ad placement. Above-median engagement across both platforms suggests an audience that acts on recommendations, and accelerating Instagram growth points to a reach still in expansion. As AI infrastructure and SaaS brands increasingly seek practitioner-educators over generalist tech commentators, Saraev occupies a well-defined and commercially defensible position in that landscape.
Nick_Saraev reaches an audience concentrated in Canada primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories. Their sponsorship history skews toward Education / Courses, AI / Technology, SaaS / Web Tools, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include N8N and Maker School. Engagement on YouTube runs around 3.5%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows tech content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For Canada-focused brands in Education / Courses and related categories, Nick_Saraev offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Nick_Saraev's tier (Macro, 1.1M combined followers, Canada). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Maker School is an educational program Nick Saraev founded to help complete beginners break into the AI services industry. The core promise is that students will land their first paying AI client within 90 days, with a money-back guarantee if they don't. By mid-2026 Nick claims over 2,000 people have gone through the program.
Yes — Nick lists MrBeast alongside Anthropic and Wix as high-profile clients he's worked with, as stated directly in his YouTube channel bio. He doesn't break down the specifics publicly, but he frames it as part of the agency background he built before scaling his content channels.
Yes, Nick explicitly names Anthropic — the AI safety company behind Claude — as one of the enterprise-level clients he has worked with. That relationship tracks with his content focus: he is one of the most active independent educators covering Claude Code and the broader Claude AI toolset on YouTube.
Yes — N8N ran a confirmed sponsorship on Nick's YouTube channel in February 2026. N8N is an open-source workflow automation platform, which fits naturally with his audience of developers and AI agency builders who want to automate client deliverables. It is one of the few named brand partnerships publicly associated with his channel.
Vibe coding is a development style where you describe what you want in plain language and let AI tools like Claude Code or Codex write the actual code for you. Nick has built a substantial portion of his content around this approach, regularly publishing plugin roundups, UI walkthroughs, and setup tutorials specifically for vibe coding workflows.
According to his YouTube bio, Nick founded two service businesses in the agency world that scaled to a combined $160,000 per month in revenue. He draws on that hands-on experience as the credibility foundation for Maker School, positioning himself as someone who has actually built and sold AI services rather than just teaching theory.
Yes — Nick's Instagram bio explicitly states a 90-day money-back guarantee if you do not land your first AI client after joining Maker School. The guarantee is a deliberate part of his pitch to skeptical beginners who are weighing whether an AI services course is worth the investment.
Nick's YouTube bio calls out Claude Code, Codex, N8N, and Antigravity as the primary tools he covers. His post hashtags and recent content confirm that Claude Code and vibe coding are currently his heaviest focus areas, with frequent tutorials on plugins, UI design, and automations built around those tools.
This is a growth tactic where a keyword comment triggers an automated DM that delivers a free resource — in Nick's case, things like Claude Code plugin lists or open-source security tools. It boosts engagement signals on the post while simultaneously building a DM list he can use to promote Maker School and future content drops.
Nick Saraev is based in Canada and posts under the handle @nicksaraev. Despite being Canadian, the vast majority of his audience is in the United States, with the UK and India also representing meaningful shares of his viewership across YouTube and Instagram.
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