Your community · Your courses · Your memberships
Run your own online school. Get paid monthly.
The all-in-one platform for coaches, creators, and experts to teach courses, build a paid community, and run the whole business under your own name. The only school platform with a private AI tutor on every lesson. Start free in minutes.
14-day free trial · No card required · Your content leaves with you
- ✓AI courses + tutor
- ✓Full back office & CRM
- ✓AI assistant + avatar hosts
- ✓Get paid via Stripe
Teach the room. Film the lesson. Open the doors.
Founding schools · first 100 only
Open one of the first hundred schools.
Founders lock lifetime preferred pricing, get free white-glove migration from Kajabi or anywhere else, and a direct line to the people building Lyceum. Leave your email and we will hold your seat.
See it in action
Watch a whole school come together.
Eight tools
replaced by one school
AI tutor
on every single lesson
7 languages
for the member experience
0% share
of member revenue on Academy
What you get
Everything your members experience, and everything you run behind the scenes, in your colors and under your name. This is one subscription doing the work of eight tools.
◆For your members
The Forum
A community they return to daily.
Not a comment section, and not a group chat lost in someone else's app. Your members get real discussion spaces, profiles, direct messages, live video rooms that bring everyone together, and recognition for showing up: badges, streaks, points, levels, and a leaderboard that turns participation into a habit.
- ✦Spaces for every topic
- ✦Live classes and video rooms
- ✦Badges, streaks, and leaderboards
- ✦Profiles and direct messages
The Forum · The Wheelhouse
Elena V.TEACHER
Pinned · 2d ago
Start here: your first week at the wheel
Three things before you touch clay. One: wedge more than you...
✦ 48 · 21 replies
Rosa P.LVL 3
Wins · 4h ago
First bowl out of the kiln today. Walls still a little thick, but it holds soup and I made it. This studio is the reason I kept going.
✦ 132 · 37 replies
The Classroom
Courses they actually finish.
Upload once, teach forever. Cinematic video, audio lessons, PDFs and workbooks, even SCORM packages from your old LMS. Or paste your rough notes and let the AI Course Architect draft the whole course for you, modules and lessons ready to edit. Test understanding with quizzes the AI writes from each lesson, drip lessons one at a time, then seal completion with a certificate under your name, not ours.
- ✦Video, audio, PDF, and SCORM
- ✦AI Course Architect from your notes
- ✦AI-generated quizzes
- ✦Drip and completion certificates
- ✦A classroom you design
Module II · 64% complete
- ✓Holding the neck without strain
- ✓Open chords that ring clean
- ✓Barre chords without the ache
- ✓Your first full song
The Study
Every lesson, a private tutor.
This is what sets a Lyceum school apart. Beside the video sits a full study workspace: a transcript that jumps the player when you click a line, AI study notes drawn straight from the lesson, and a tutor your members can ask anything. It answers only from your material and cites the exact moment, so no one is left behind. Members keep their own notes, highlights, and saved answers, in their language: the whole member experience speaks Spanish, German, Chinese, French, and more. Kajabi is still rolling this out in beta. Yours is live on every lesson today.
- ✦Click-to-jump transcript
- ✦AI summary, terms, and notes
- ✦Ask-the-lesson AI tutor
- ✦Member experience in 7 languages
The Study · Lesson 4
0:30 / 3:26
About negative seventy millivolts inside the cell, set by potassium and sodium. The membrane stays charged on purpose.
✦Grounded in your lesson · cites the moment
◆For you, behind the scenes
The Back Office
Run the entire business from one place.
Lyceum is not just where you teach; it is where you run the school. A real CRM with member records, notes, tags, and lifetime value. Class attendance with self check-in. Gamification that keeps students coming back. Finances with one-click invoices. A task board with a kanban view. A calendar that pulls your classes, events, and deadlines together. And teachers with their own logins, where you decide who gets the AI tools.
- ✦Member CRM with notes and tags
- ✦Attendance, check-in, and badges
- ✦Invoices and a finance dashboard
- ✦Tasks, kanban, and a calendar
- ✦Staff logins you control
Back office · Dashboard
318
Members
94
Active today
$6,420
MRR
$280
Outstanding
Going quiet
Invoices
The Director
An AI that helps you run it.
Your own AI assistant, briefed on your school's live numbers. Ask it who is about to quit, how attendance is trending, or what to focus on today, and it answers from your real data. It drafts your announcements, your emails, and a one-tap daily report. It is like hiring an operations manager who never sleeps. Kajabi's AI helps you start a business; ours helps you run one.
- ✦Knows your live members and money
- ✦Flags at-risk students early
- ✦Drafts reports, emails, and posts
- ✦Academy plan
The Director · AI assistant
AcademyTwo students have gone quiet past 14 days: Dana and Marco. Three things for today:
- ✦ Nudge Dana and Marco from the Members tab.
- ✦ INV-0041 is overdue; send a reminder.
- ✦ Attendance dipped 8%; post this week's class times.
✦Reads your live numbers · writes your daily report
Avatar Hosts
A teacher on camera, without the camera.
Choose from ten lifelike avatar instructors to host your lessons. The AI writes the script from each lesson's own material, the avatar reads it with natural voice and lip-sync, and your members get a warm, on-camera welcome to every lesson, no studio, no filming, no reshoots.
- ✦Ten realistic, voice-synced hosts
- ✦AI writes the host's script for you
- ✦A host on every lesson
- ✦Add-on, $50/month
Avatar hosts
Add-on“Welcome back. Today we build on last week's footwork...”
✦10 lifelike hosts · AI writes the script from your lesson
The Store
Sell more than memberships.
Open a shop alongside your school. Sell digital downloads, gear, manuals, and event passes, with checkout through your own Stripe so the money is yours. Already on Shopify? Link it in one field and your school points members straight to your existing store.
- ✦Digital and physical products
- ✦Checkout through your Stripe
- ✦Or link your Shopify store
- ✦Your storefront, your brand
The Store
+ ShopifyBelt Manual (PDF)
Studio Tee
Seminar Pass
✦ Sell digital + physical, or link your Shopify
The Treasury
Paid like a business, not a hobby.
Set your price: free, monthly, or annual. Members pay through Stripe and the money lands in your account, not ours. The finance dashboard shows recurring revenue, what is outstanding, and what you collected this month, so the school runs like a business without feeling like one.
- ✦Your Stripe account, your payouts
- ✦Free, monthly, and annual tiers
- ✦One-click invoices and refunds
- ✦Revenue and member analytics
Monthly recurring
$4,860
+18% THIS MONTH
New members
Paid direct to your Stripe →
Pricing
One monthly fee. Starter and Pro add a small share of what you earn; Academy keeps every dollar. Founding schools lock these terms for life. Kajabi’s comparable plans run $149, $199, $299, and $399 a month, and still take a cut at the processor. Lyceum starts at $49, and your money goes to your own Stripe.
Starter
Open your school and prove it works.
$49/mo
+ 5% of member revenue
Kajabi entry: $149/mo
- ✦Community, courses, and payments
- ✦Membership packages, every billing type
- ✦Video, audio, PDF, and SCORM
- ✦The Study: AI notes and tutor
- ✦AI Course Architect and quizzes
- ✦Drip and completion certificates
- ✦Full back office: CRM, attendance, finances
- ✦Tasks, calendar, and the Store
- ✦Ten website templates + your subdomain
- ✦Member experience in 7 languages
Most founders choose
Pro
The full school, under your own flag.
$99/mo
+ 2% of member revenue
Kajabi Growth: $299/mo
- ✦Everything in Starter
- ✦Live classes and video rooms
- ✦Email marketing and newsletters
- ✦Custom domain
- ✦Higher AI limits
- ✦Priority support
Academy
For schools that are already institutions.
$249/mo
Keep 100% of member revenue
Kajabi Pro: $399/mo + processor fees
- ✦Everything in Pro
- ✦0% platform share, forever
- ✦The Director AI assistant
- ✦Unlimited AI study tools
- ✦AI SEO engine and sitemaps
- ✦Full white label
- ✦A direct line to the builders
Compare every plan, line by line+
| Starter | Pro | Academy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price, billed monthly | $49 / mo | $99 / mo | $249 / mo |
| Platform share of member revenue | 5% | 2% | 0% forever |
| Members & contacts | No cap | No cap | No cap |
| Video storage | 25 GB | 250 GB | 1 TB |
| Email sends / month | 10,000 | 100,000 | 500,000 |
| Communities & spaces | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Membership packages | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Live classes & video rooms | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom domain | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| The Director AI assistant | — | — | ✓ |
| Full white label | — | — | ✓ |
| Schools per account | Multiple | Multiple | Multiple |
Add-on AI avatar class hosts, on any plan, for $50/month.
14-day free trial on every plan · no card to start · cancel anytime · your content leaves with you
Your members, your prices, your Stripe. We never hold the relationship or the money.
The reckoning
Count the bills this retires.
Most teachers rent five or six tools that do not talk to each other, then pay someone to wire them together. A lyceum is one system, already wired, with things none of those tools sell at all.
The usual stack
- Course platform$99/mo
- Community app$89/mo
- Live-class tool$15/mo
- Email + automation$49/mo
- CRM$25/mo
- Scheduler$15/mo
- Invoicing$20/mo
- Website builder$29/mo
- An AI tutor on every lessondoesn't exist
≈ $340+ a month · eight logins · nothing connected
One lyceum
$49/mo to start
- ✦Every tool on the left, in one place
- ✦One bill, one login, all connected
- ✦Plus the AI tutor, the Director, avatar hosts
- ✦Your own Stripe, money straight to you
At a $30 membership, eleven members cover Pro for the year. The twelfth buys your coffee.
Capacity
Built for a school of ten, or ten thousand.
No contact caps that punish you for growing. Kajabi charges by how many people you have collected, from 250 on its entry plan to 100,000 at the top. We do not count your people. Bring all of them.
Members & contacts
No cap
Kajabi: 250 to 100,000
Communities & spaces
Unlimited
Kajabi: 1 to 3
Video storage
Up to 1 TB
by plan tier
Email sends / month
Up to 500,000
by plan tier
Schools per account
Multiple
run an agency
Staff & teacher logins
Generous
with AI controls
Languages
7
for every member
Your data
Always exportable
isolated, backed up daily
Per-school data isolation · signed, expiring video links · daily backups
The measure
We measured ourselves against Kajabi. Honestly.
They are the best known name in this business, and we will not be second class to them. Here is the side by side, with the parts we are still building marked plainly. We would rather tell you the truth than borrow a claim we no longer keep.
○marks what we are still building, named honestly. Kajabi’s live plans charge 2.7–2.9% + 30¢ through Kajabi Payments and 0.5–5% on other gateways; their “0% transaction fee” is a legacy claim, not their current pricing. Figures from kajabi.com, June 2026.
Everything included
One subscription replaces your course platform, community app, live classroom, email tool, CRM, scheduler, invoicing, and website builder. Count the bills this retires. No plugins, no duct tape.
Teach
- ✦AI Course Architect from your notes
- ✦4K video and audio lessons
- ✦PDFs, workbooks, and downloads
- ✦SCORM course import
- ✦Drip and sequential lesson gating
- ✦Completion certificates
- ✦A classroom you design
The Study (AI)
- ✦Click-to-jump transcripts
- ✦AI study notes and key terms
- ✦Ask-the-lesson AI tutor
- ✦AI-generated quizzes with grading
- ✦Avatar class hosts (add-on)
- ✦Member notes and highlights
Engage & retain
- ✦Community spaces and feeds
- ✦Live classes and video rooms
- ✦Direct messages and profiles
- ✦Badges, streaks, and points
- ✦Levels and leaderboards
- ✦Attendance and self check-in
Run the back office
- ✦Member CRM: notes, tags, value
- ✦Staff and teacher logins you control
- ✦Tasks with a kanban board
- ✦A unified school calendar
- ✦The Director AI assistant
- ✦One dashboard for everything
Get paid & sell
- ✦Stripe payouts straight to you
- ✦Free, monthly, and annual tiers
- ✦One-click invoices and refunds
- ✦The Store: digital and physical
- ✦Link your Shopify store
- ✦Revenue and member analytics
Grow & brand
- ✦Ten editorial website templates
- ✦AI SEO and structured data
- ✦Email marketing and newsletters
- ✦Member experience in 7 languages
- ✦Full white label (Academy)
- ✦Your data, always exportable
The Opening
I
Claim your hall
Pick a name. Your school is live at yourname.joinlyceum.com within minutes, with a website you build from ten editorial templates.
II
Hang your curriculum
Paste your notes and let the AI Course Architect draft your course. Then upload your video and give every lesson The Study: a transcript, AI notes, and a tutor.
III
Open the doors
Set your price, share one link, and welcome your members. Stripe pays you directly from day one.
Life at a lyceum
Real rooms. Real craft. Real people.
The Standard
No two lyceums look alike, and none of them look like a template. Build your public site from ten editorial designs, give the classroom its own look from four more, set your colors and type, and let AI write your SEO so the right students find you.
Your members feel the difference before they read a single word. That feeling is what they renew for.
Northlight School of Photography
Learn to see, then to shoot.
Light I
94% COMPLETE
Composition
61% COMPLETE
The Print
12% COMPLETE
The Terms
Elsewhere
- ×Rent an audience you never own
- ×An algorithm decides who sees your work
- ×Pennies from ads, when it suits them
- ×Students scattered across five platforms
- ×The same template as nine million others
At your lyceum
- ✦Own every member relationship
- ✦Every member sees everything you publish
- ✦Memberships at the price you set
- ✦One roof: community, courses, live, payments
- ✦A school that looks like no one else's
The Idea
In the nineteenth century nearly every American town kept a lyceum: a hall where anyone with mastery could lecture, debate, and teach their neighbors. Douglass spoke in them. Emerson toured them. Twain filled them. Then broadcast media made audiences passive, and the halls went quiet.
The internet was supposed to bring them back. Instead it handed teachers an algorithm to feed. Your students became somebody's audience, your work became content, and the platform kept the relationship and most of the money.
Lyceum is the hall, rebuilt: your members, your curriculum, your name on the door.
Already on Kajabi?
They make you rebuild every course by hand. We will move you.
Kajabi has no real migration; you recreate your school from scratch. Founding schools come across with white-glove help, so your courses, members, and pricing arrive intact and your doors reopen under your own name.
Founders
You can open your school yourself in minutes. But the first hundred schools get something more: white-glove setup, lifetime terms, and a direct line to the people building Lyceum.
- Lifetime preferred terms
- Founding crest on your school
- A direct line to the builders
Questions
Asked and answered.
What is Lyceum?+
Everything you need to run an online school under your own name: a community, video courses with an AI tutor on every lesson, live classes, your own website and store, paid memberships, and a full back office (CRM, attendance, gamification, finances and invoicing, tasks, calendar, and staff logins) with an AI assistant to help you run it. One subscription replaces your course platform, community app, live classroom, email tool, CRM, scheduler, invoicing software, and website builder.
Is there really a whole back office?+
Yes. Beyond teaching, Lyceum runs the business: a member CRM with notes and tags, class attendance with self check-in, badges and streaks that keep students engaged, invoices and a finance dashboard, a task board with a kanban view, a unified calendar, and teacher logins where you control who gets the AI tools. On the Academy plan, an AI assistant reads your live numbers and drafts your daily report. You can even add lifelike AI avatar instructors to host your lessons.
What does it cost?+
Three plans: $49, $99, or $249 a month. Starter and Pro add a small share of what you earn (5% or 2%); Academy keeps 100% of member revenue. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, and founding schools lock their terms for life.
What is The Study?+
It is the workspace beside every lesson. Add a transcript and Lyceum writes AI study notes and runs a tutor that answers your members' questions using only that lesson's material, citing the exact moment in the video. It is the difference between watching a video and actually learning.
Do I need a big audience?+
No. You need a craft and the will to teach it. Schools grow on the strength of their teaching, and some of the best lyceums will start with ten members who care.
Who owns my content and my members?+
You do, completely. Your videos are yours, your member list is yours and exportable, your prices are yours. If you ever leave, you take all of it with you.
How does Lyceum compare to Kajabi?+
In the places that matter most, we already do more: a private AI tutor on every lesson, an AI assistant that runs on your live numbers, a full back office with a member CRM, no contact caps, and your own Stripe with 0% revenue share on the Academy plan. Kajabi is more mature in a few areas we are actively building, chiefly a visual automations builder, an affiliate program, and a branded mobile app. Our comparison section lays it all out, those included, honestly.
Do you have sales funnels and marketing automations?+
Both are live. Sales funnels: build one from a template (a free-guide opt-in, a sales page, or a webinar sign-up), it gets its own link, captures leads, and sends buyers straight to a membership package's checkout. Email sequences: series that send themselves when someone joins or buys, with per-step delays and personalization. A visual when-then automations builder is next. We will not list anything as included until it is real. That honesty is the whole point of how we compare ourselves to anyone.
Is there a mobile app?+
Your school works beautifully in any phone browser today, with nothing to install. A branded native app is on the roadmap. We would rather ship it right than claim it early.
Can you move me off Kajabi?+
Yes. Kajabi makes you rebuild every course by hand; we will help you move instead. Founding schools get white-glove migration as part of setup, so you never start from a blank page.
Are there member or contact limits?+
No. We do not cap how many members or contacts your school can hold, on any plan. Storage and email volume scale by tier, but your audience is never the thing we charge you for, which is exactly the wall Kajabi's plans put in front of you.
What are the fees, really?+
You connect your own Stripe and your members pay you directly, so the money lands in your account, not ours. Starter and Pro take a small platform share (5% or 2%); Academy takes 0%, forever. There is no separate Lyceum payment processor skimming every sale.
Can I start today?+
Yes. Create your school in a few minutes and start building. Founding schools still get white-glove setup and lifetime terms, so claim a seat if you would like us to help you open by hand.