Founder report · 2026

$1,876,205/mo
visible across the
top 25 AI Skool
communities.

6 are Skool Diamond tier. 19 are free at the door (off-Skool monetization). Below: the moves that separate winners from controls, the real cadence (quoted from their actual landing pages), and a 10-day launch plan.

Money Patterns Real cadence 10-day plan

Source: 947 AI-tagged Skool communities scraped via Apify, top 25 enriched, paired against ~25 controls. Updated May 1, 2026. Methodology: /methodology.

1 · The money

Visible MRR

$1,876,205

members × monthly price

Visible ARR

$22,514,460

at run-rate

Diamond tier

6

≥$10k/mo verified

Free at door

19 / 25

backend-monetized

Community Members Price MRR Tier
ACQ VANTAGE Alex Hormozi 914 $1,000 $914,000 -
AI Automation Society Plus Nate Herk 3,582 $99 $355,212 diamond
AI Automations by Jack Jack Roberts 2,660 $77 $205,282 diamond
AI Video Bootcamp Daniel Riley 18,752 $9 $168,948 diamond
CEO Lab (Marketer Skool) Jeff Lopez 1,577 $97 $152,969 crown
Ninjas AI Automation Ninja Ai 2,049 $39 $79,794 -
AI Automation Society Nate Herk 350,911 Free diamond
AI Automation Agency Hub Liam Ottley 314,351 Free -
Mobility & Injury Prevention Josh Fear 204,762 Free -
Skoolers Sam Ovens 193,060 Free -
AI Automation (A-Z) Albert Shiney 153,500 Free crown
The AI Advantage Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi 120,875 Free -
AI Money Lab Julian Goldie 71,557 Free diamond
GOOSIFY 🍎🐛🦋🌈⭐️🩷 Goose Dunlavey 12,945 Free -
REVENUE REVOLUTION Raven Steele 8,848 Free -
AI Cyber Value Creators Dr. Allen Harper 8,781 Free -
AI Profit Boardroom Julian Goldie 2,998 Free diamond
Ai Creators Academy Markens Castelly 2,340 Free -
The AI Agents Course Alicia Lyttle 1,857 Free -
Story Hacker AI Jason Hamilton 1,633 Free crown
AI Marketing Ray Merlin 1,180 Free -
Ai Style Secrets (AISS) Digital Entrepreneur 802 Free -
Ina's Dance Academy Ina Jeliazkova 399 Free liftoff
AI Society: Income with AI Jam Anderson 225 Free -
AI & Free Intelligence John Young 212 Free -

Visible MRR = members × monthly price (from goat255 actor enrichment). Free communities show $0 here despite real off-Skool revenue.

2 · What they did (that we have to do)

7 moves separate winners from controls.

Prevalence in top-25 vs ~25 matched controls. Source: analysis/blueprint.json.

# Move Top 25 Control Gap
1 Meta Conversions tracking on 56% 12% +44pp
2 Founder ≥50k followers 40% 0% +40pp
3 Zapier integration enabled 64% 28% +36pp
4 Founder runs/joined ≥10 Skool groups 72% 44% +28pp
5 ≥3 marketing links on owner profile 28% 0% +28pp
6 AutoDM enabled 68% 44% +24pp
7 Email-capture welcome survey 80% 60% +20pp

Full 18-factor table at /blueprint.

3 · The real cadence

Their actual landing pages.

Quoted directly from each community's About page (scraped via Apify). These are the patterns to mirror — credibility line one, arrow lists, ❌ negation lists, specific dollar numbers, single CTA.

ACQ VANTAGE

Alex Hormozi · 914 members · $1,000/mo

skool.com/acq ↗
For $1M+ Business Owners Who Want to Scale Faster

The only community that verifies $1M+ revenue before you can post \(every post is peer-level\).

Members share what's actually working, plus direct access to Alex Hormozi's advisory team.

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🤖 AI: Trained on 50,000+ hours of real business consulting \(rated #1AI for business by members\)
💼 ACQ Advisory access normally priced at $35k/day
📚 8 advanced workshops: Marketing, Sales, LTV, People, AI, Profit, Wealth, Scaling
🎯 Weekly hands-on sessions & 12 playbooks not available to buy anywhere else
🤝 Co-investment opportunities \(qualifying members\)
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And more…

How it …
AI Automation Society

Nate Herk · 350,911 members · Free

skool.com/ai-automation-society ↗
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Join us to share knowledge, collaborate on projects, and master the future of…
AI Automation Agency Hub

Liam Ottley · 314,351 members · Free

skool.com/learn-ai ↗
Interested in starting an AI business?

If so, you're in the right place.

I'm Liam Ottley, the #1 AI business expert on YouTube \(730,000+ subscribers\) and creator of the AI Automation Agency model.

3 years ago, I started with zero generative AI knowledge. Now I've built multiple AI businesses generating $18M+ in revenue with a team of 65+ people.

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Join now to get:
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Mobility & Injury Prevention

Josh Fear · 204,762 members · Free

skool.com/movesmethod ↗
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J /…

Excerpts truncated at 700 chars. Full landing copy on each community page.

4 · 0 to ads running in 10 days

Day-by-day launch plan.

Procedural sequence. The 7 moves from Section 2 are all wired by Day 4. Specific dollar figures, member milestones, and named testimonials are intentionally absent — fill those in with your own real numbers as you ship.

Day 1 · Foundation

Skool group + payments live by EOD.

  • · Create paid Skool group on Pro plan ($99/mo platform fee). Connect Stripe Express, payouts to bank.
  • · Owner profile: photo, bio with one specific revenue number, ≥3 marketing links (move #5).
  • · Set monthly price + enable 7-day free trial in group settings.

Day 2 · Classroom skeleton

5 modules created (88% of winners ship 5+).

  • · Outline 5 classroom modules.
  • · Record + upload modules 1 + 2 (Loom, raw, no editing).
  • · Add module placeholders for 3-5 with descriptions and "coming next week" labels.

Day 3 · Content + cadence

Modules 3–5 + calendar + map.

  • · Record modules 3, 4, 5.
  • · Calendar tab on (96% of winners). Schedule weekly Monday call + Wednesday office hours, 12 weeks out.
  • · Map tab on (80% of winners) — even with 0 members.

Day 4 · Stack wiring

All 7 moves from Section 2 — wired.

  • · AutoDM welcome bot — fires within 60 seconds of new signup with the day-1 onboarding video.
  • · Zapier: new member → Notion DB row → Slack #signups channel.
  • · Meta Conversions API — server-side via Stape or Make.com. Test event "Subscribe" fires.
  • · Email-capture welcome survey on signup. Push to Mailchimp/ConvertKit.

Day 5 · Landing page

About page in winner cadence.

  • · Use Section 3's quoted excerpts as cadence reference. Match: founder credibility line one, arrow lists, ❌ negation lists, specific dollar number, single CTA.
  • · One specific revenue number in line one of bio (move #7 — the "specific revenue/outcome numbers" gap).
  • · No fabricated testimonials. Leave the proof section empty until Day 7 founding members ship one.

Day 6 · Founder video + assets

Hero video + day-1 onboarding video.

  • · 90-second founder video — phone, no script, hit hero hook in first 5 seconds.
  • · Day-1 member onboarding video — what to do in your first 24 hours inside.
  • · Reserve testimonial-screenshot space until you have real members with real outcomes.

Day 7 · Pre-launch DMs

100 warm contacts → founding members locked.

  • · DM 100 warm contacts (prior clients, podcast guests, mutuals). One sentence + the trial link.
  • · Convert to founding-member rate (locked-in for life). Use their real names + real outcomes in launch copy as they accumulate.
  • · Reality check: if you can't convert any to a founding rate, the offer needs work — fix before spending ad dollars.

Day 8 · Ad creative

3 video hooks + 3 still hooks + 7 copy variants.

  • · Hook 1: founder talking head — your real revenue number on screen, name the toolkit. (15 sec)
  • · Hook 2: screen recording of one specific tool/feature with a sourced outcome overlay. (15 sec)
  • · Hook 3: testimonial reel — only real founding-member quotes from Day 7. Skip if you don't have any yet. (20 sec)
  • · Stills: 3 carousel cards — your real classroom, the call schedule, real founding-member quote.
  • · Copy: 7 ad-text variants (hook + benefits + CTA), each ≤ 125 chars for primary text.

Day 9 · Funnel QA + Meta Ads setup

End-to-end test, campaign loaded, $0 spent yet.

  • · Funnel QA: click ad → Skool landing → trial signup → AutoDM → onboarding → Notion row → Slack ping. Trace every step.
  • · Meta Ads Manager: 1 campaign, CBO, conservative starting daily budget (your call), Subscribe conversion event.
  • · 1 ad set, Advantage+ audiences, anglo-tier countries to start (US/CA/UK/AU/NZ).
  • · 6 ads loaded (3 video, 3 still). Schedule for 9am ET tomorrow.

Day 10 · Ads live

9am ET — turn on, watch, kill bottom, scale top.

  • · Launch campaign at 9am ET.
  • · Monitor every hour for the first 8 hours. Don't pause anything before each ad has spent enough to read signal.
  • · EOD: kill bottom 50% of ads by CPL, double budget on top 25%.
  • · Day 11+: scale daily. First trial-to-paid conversion typically lands inside the trial window — patience.