Darkcore Studio

I’m pouring my 10+ years of experience in graphic design into building personal brands for motivated people with a strong vision for their future.

You’ll love working with me if you’re a fan of a collaborative approach instead of giving orders. You’ll be thrilled with the result if you’re highly motivated and also tired of the bullshit in your industry. 

The entrepreneurship road is rocky. Anyone telling you something else is most likely lying.

Working with me will get you closer to your goals in a fraction of the time you’d spend learning skills you don’t need and spending time you don’t have. Because you’ll know – and experience – what it’s like to have someone with experience build you a brand that helps you succeed.

Founder

Instapage

Instapage is the leader in post-click-optimization ™. 

Our solution helps marketing teams increase advertising conversions through the building, personalizing, and optimizing of landing page experiences at scale. 

With over two million landing pages converting above 22%, Instapage is helping 15,000+ customers across 100 countries capture more value from their campaigns.

A Leader in G2Crowd’s Conversion Rate Optimization, A/B Testing, and Landing Page Software grids, Instapage is ranked #1 in customer satisfaction.

Affiliate Program Manager

Ensuring the customers have the best experience possible when contacting Instapage Support. Providing help via email & livechat and maintaining constant contact with our clients.

Customer Success Agent

Freelancer

Graphic Designer

Continental

My main responsibilities as a traffic planner included organizing tire transports to assigned countries, checking and optimizing delivery flow. Other daily tasks included forecasting the loading plan for the following days, offering support in occurring problems related to missing tires and solving issues like shipment delays.

Traffic Planner

Regional Department of Statistics

As an operator during the 2011 Population & Housing Census, my main tasks were to identify any errors that could have occurred in the questionnaires, correct these errors and then introduce the correct data in the system. Good communication between co-workers and attention to detail were vital as any wrong information introduced in the system would have affected the overall result.

PC Operator

The era of swanky brands & websites devoid of substance and differentiation is long gone. 
Personal branding means highlighting not just what you can do, but also how you think and why.

Let's work together to attract your ideal clients through psychology and conversion-oriented design. 
You don’t need to be an expert designer to get it done. You just need to work with one.

I help those transitioning from the corporate world to entrepreneurship to show up with confidence 
and clarity in front of their ideal clients. Let me turn the idea you’ve been sitting on for years into an 
asset that builds your business. 

Work with me to avoid:
❌   wasting time & money on scraping together your own brand
❌   being stuck in a loop & never shipping what you need 
❌   having an “all show and no substance” brand

I know how to get you on the fast track to achieving your goals because I've been where you are.

I moved away from corporate to start my own business in 2019. And I never looked back!

Work with me to:
✅ Give your work a palpable form which elevates your know-how and approach
✅ Build a coherent brand you can use, repurpose, and extend across channels
✅ Get assets that are uniquely yours and which support your professional stance


We'll work together to build you a solid personal brand that serves you for years to come. 
It will be natural, it will feel like YOU and it will tell your story in a way that gets you noticed 
by those you want to work with. 

Working with me means having a partner you can count on. 
I'm in it for the long-term, so my clients feel comfortable leaving creative decision-making to me. 

Contact me to see why: lucian@darkcore.studio 📧

Good things take time, but it’s easier to get there when someone's got your back!

Lucian-Alin Grofsorean

I’m a product leader who has spent the last 6 years building and scaling products across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. I focus on taking products from concept to market, defining the right problems, driving full-cycle product development, and building the product operations and discovery systems teams need to ship consistently and scale with confidence.

I’ve built more than 15 products from 0→1, scaled multi-million-dollar product lines, and led product organizations serving thousands of users across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, and Qatar. Along the way, I’ve designed and executed end-to-end product systems rooted in PLG, continuous discovery, intelligent growth loops, and strong operational models that help companies move beyond intuition and build with evidence.

I’ve supported over 10 companies and 30+ product teams, building product orgs from the ground up, leading discovery programs, strengthening product delivery discipline, creating scalable product operating models, and stepping in as a fractional Head of Product to drive alignment and execution. I’ve also mentored more than 120 product managers globally across multiple platforms.

A significant part of my work focuses on building AI-powered products and workflows, from discovery and problem framing to data strategy, model evaluation, user experience integration, and post-launch iteration. I help companies integrate AI in ways that create measurable value, not hype, ensuring AI becomes a reliable capability embedded in the product, not a disconnected experiment.

My core strength lies in rapidly diagnosing product and organizational gaps, including unclear problem definitions, weak discovery habits, inconsistent cross-functional alignment, cluttered roadmaps, and missing growth systems, and then rebuilding them into lean, evidence-driven machines that ship value consistently and accelerate adoption.

If you’re working on something interesting and want to exchange ideas, feel free to reach out.

Shehab Beram

Personal Post #2 (If you hate personal stories, skip.)

The longer I live, the more I realize I hate “normal.”
And I hate “being realistic.”

I don’t believe we were created to settle. We were created to dream big, build hard, and thrive, after worshiping Allah first.

Normal careers. Normal companies. Normal lifestyles.

None of that feels like the default we were meant to accept.

The human body, mind, and energy are capable of far more than we’re encouraged to use. More effort. More output. More impact. More ambition.

Maybe it’s a Gen Z thing. Or maybe it’s just refusing to sleepwalk through life.

“Being realistic” often turns into, Playing small, Rejecting your own potential, Calling fear “wisdom”

Here’s what I’ve learned instead, If you aim for 400%, you might land at 120%, and that’s already above average.

Apply this mindset to your personal life, the companies and products you’re building, the people you choose to work with, the knowledge you spread and tolerate

Normal is comfortable. Normal is crowded. Normal is where ambition goes to die.

I’m not interested.

09.Jan.2026 
📍İstanbul, Türkiye

Product @ Lumofy | Building & Scaling AI Products and Growth Systems

Hey HR professionals globally, especially in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Our Product team at Lumofy | لوموفاي is looking for YOU !!!!

We’re building a new generation Agentic product around performance management, skills/competency management, and talent development.

We’re currently forming an HR experts circle to help shape this product.

This group will work closely with the product team by, Sharing feedback, Using the product hands-on, and contributing to roadmap discussions and real talent challenges

As part of the Lumofy experts network, you’ll be involved early while we build what we believe will be a large-scale talent development platform.

If you’re interested, can dedicate some time (2 - 4 hours/month), and want to work directly with the product team, please fill out the form below. We’ll reach out to onboard you.

https://lnkd.in/d-iPdd2T

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Fill | Lumofy HR Expert Circle – Shaping the Future of Talent, Skills, and Performance

PMs in B2B should ALWAYS protect the company from toxic revenue.

Toxic revenue = money that forces you to ship “one-client features” that, don’t fit the vision, distort the roadmap, increase support/maintenance forever, and slowly turn your product into a salad.

In our region, this is the default trap, big deals tied to huge feature requests.

Your ability to say No (or “Yes, but on our terms”) determines whether you’re:

1. building a product-led company, or
2. running a software house with a fancy brand and an optional product.

Here’s the playbook I learned

1) Never accept the request blindly

Talk to the prospect, then zoom out. Interview 5–10 companies in the same segment, Is this a real segment pain or just one client’s workflow? What outcomes are they actually chasing?

If needed: give Sales a workaround + buy time.

2) Score it on 4 gates

1. Vision fit: Does it strengthen where we’re going?

2. Roadmap fit: Does it replace something or just add chaos?

3. Capability fit: Do we have the primitives, or is this a net-new product?

4. Trade-offs: what are we delaying, and what will it cost in churn/adoption?

3) Make a hard Go / No-Go call

If it fails the gates → No.

Not “later.” Not “maybe.” No.

4) If “Go”, shrink the scope

Treat it like an MVP experiment with a single early adopter. Build the smallest version to close the deal. Strict acceptance criteria. No open-ended commitments.

5) Force generalizability

If we can’t reuse it across multiple customers or maybe upsell a segment, it’s a software house project.

So you either:

design it as a reusable capability, or

price it as professional services (and keep it out of core product promises).

Golden rule

If the request can only be shipped behind feature flags or a dark launch to keep it hidden from the rest of the product, it usually means it failed the Step 2 assessment.

And in ~80% of cases (depending on your ARR performance and the deal’s relative size), you should not accept it, because that’s toxic revenue, and it’s how you end up building a salad product.

This might genuinely be one of the funniest birthday messages I’ve ever received.

Grateful to Allah for the people, the culture, and the energy I get to work with every day. 

The person in the picture is Safa AlFulaij, our Engineering Manager at Lumofy | لوموفاي, calm under pressure, sharp, and always human when it matters.

Very grateful. Very lucky.

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