We earn commission on every tool we feature. What that never buys is a position. We test first and rank second, and a tool that pays well can still finish last. How that works.
Communities, cohorts and courses worth paying for, and the platform most of them run on.
Most people buy six AI subscriptions and use none of them properly. The bottleneck is almost never the tool.
A room full of people already doing the thing tends to beat another free trial, which is why this category exists on a site that otherwise reviews software.
Every tool on this page has a commercial relationship with us, and we earn if you buy through our links. That is why we rank the set we cover rather than claiming to rank the whole market. What the money never buys is a position: the highest payer here can and does finish last.
This category is being built. The protocol we use is published below.
Communities cannot be tested like software, so the protocol changes and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. We join and participate for at least thirty days before writing anything.
We record: how much genuinely useful material exists behind the paywall, how active it actually is rather than how active the sales page claims, whether the person whose name is on it turns up, how much of it is upsell to a higher tier, and what happens when you ask a hard question in public.
There are no blind tests here and no rubric score that would mean much, so this category is written as assessments rather than scored out of 100.
One. We earn a recurring commission if you sign up to Skool through our link, and it pays better than anything else on this site.
Two. One of the communities we cover is ours. It is labelled as ours everywhere it appears, and you should weigh anything we say about it accordingly.