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Maker School: AI Automation

Get your first client for an AI automation business in 90 days or your money back. Daily AI coaching, AI templates, +$30K saved in tools…

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How this community works

Pricing: $184 a monthWell above the ai & tech median of $9.
Size: 2,179 membersBigger than 47% of the ai & tech communities indexed here.
Revenue ceiling: $400,936 a monthIf every member paid the listed price. Free tiers, discounts and churn are not visible from outside.
Running since: September 2024, 2 years agoAbout 91 new members a month since launch, on average.
Format: Course-led: 12 courses, 727 modules
Activity: 41,752 posts19.2 posts per member, which is exceptionally active.
Grows from: YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and their own website
Platform: Skool
Category: AI & Tech
Last verified: 23 August 2026

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Courses are the hook and the discussion is the retention: 12 courses plus 19.2 posts per member.
The owner runs YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and their own website. That is the audience the community was launched to; the community is the back end of it.

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About Maker School: AI Automation

Get your first client for an AI automation business in 90 days or your money back. Daily AI coaching, AI templates, +$30K saved in tools. $184/mo.

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The one-liner

A paid AI automation classroom that sells first-client outcomes on a hard clock.

What they actually sell

One main Skool membership framed around landing AI automation client #1. Public about copy lists a day-by-day roadmap, end-to-end courses (Claude, n8n and more), templates and scripts, platform discount stack, daily QA with the owner, weekly calls, and member job leads. Guarantee is explicit: first paying AI client in 90 days or a full refund. Price is sold on the page with a “price increasing soon” urgency line. Separate free tier or multi-plan ladder: not listed on the public about page.

Who pays and why

People who have already binge-watched AI automation content and still have no invoice. The emotional problem is learner shame—watching the market move while staying unpaid. They buy a deadline plus a coach who answers daily, not another passive course.

Where the members come from

Owner channels listed on the Skool profile: YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X/Twitter and a personal website. The community is the back end of that pre-existing audience. Exact follower counts: not listed on the public about page.

What's holding it back

Delivery densifies around the owner’s daily replies and weekly calls. If that cadence thins, the dues start to feel like another template library with a refund clause.

Steal this

Sell the expensive outcome with a dated refund clock, then retain with daily coaching instead of another course dump.

Would this work in another niche?

Yes where the buyer already owns too much content and needs a verifiable first win plus live accountability. Weak where the outcome cannot be checked inside a fixed window.

Written 22 September 2026. The facts above are computed; these notes are not.