What is The AI Academy?

The AI Academy is a free Skool community that teaches AI tools in plain English, with a path from beginner level to building AI agents. It is run by Drew Collins of Founder Drew, a brand operated by Founder Drew LLC, and the group was created in July 2025.

How much does The AI Academy cost?

The AI Academy is free to join on Skool; its listing shows no charge, read 1 Nov 2026.

How many members does The AI Academy have?

The AI Academy lists 5,101 members, read 1 Nov 2026.

How has The AI Academy's membership changed?

From 4,994 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 5,101 on 1 Nov 2026: up 107, or 2%.

How does The AI Academy compare with other ai and automation communities?

The AI Academy is free to join, where the median priced ai and automation listing charges $27 a month. The niche median is 588 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What do you get inside The AI Academy?

The AI Academy publishes 249 course modules, 12 courses, 484 posts, 1 admin. Communities with the most course content.

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The AI Academy review

The AI Academy publishes 249 course modules on Skool. It is free to join.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined The AI Academy, and nothing below is a verdict.

The AI Academy is a free Skool community that teaches AI tools in plain English, with a path from beginner level to building AI agents.^[1] It is run by Drew Collins of Founder Drew, a brand operated by Founder Drew LLC, and the group was created in July 2025.^[1]^[2]^[3] Joining needs no credit card.^[1]

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Members: 5,101
Published price: Free to join; no paid tier published here
Members, last 29 days: +43; 3 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026
Rank by members: #374; of 6,076 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #59; of 629 sellers listed in ai and automation, by published members
Check the Course score: 90; A, very strong
Niche: AI and automation; 673 listed here
Created: 30 Jul 2025; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 11; since 6 Sept 2026

About The AI Academy

Members get the 30 Day AI Challenge, a free course of over six hours on one tool a day, and a daily-updated vault of AI guides, walkthroughs and templates.^[1] The paid AI Academy Plus tier, also on Skool, adds direct mentorship and weekly office hours; as of September 2026 it cost $97 a month.^[1]^[3] JARVIS OS is presented as the AI operating system the business runs on, delivered as a hosted web app; as of September 2026 it cost $29 a month or $200 a year, with a lifetime rate of $20 a month for the first 200 members.^[3]

Collins writes a newsletter, The AI Debrief.^[3] Collins also sells coaching as weekly calls of 60 to 75 minutes on the AI stack, offers and workflows Collins uses; as of September 2026 a single call cost $1,000, one month $3,000 and three months $10,000.^[4]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/try-ai-academy, as collected 6 Sept 2026
Official website: founderdrew.com/about, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
Official website: founderdrew.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
Official website: founderdrew.com/coaching, retrieved 28 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheAI and automationFormatCourseIncludesTemplates and resources

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

249

Courses

Posts, all time

484

People running it

Counts published by The AI Academy on its own page, read on 1 Nov 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by founderdrew.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 1 Nov 2026 from Skool source page archived copy caf3731c057a.

Observable monthly ceiling

monthly price

5,101

published members

theoretical ceiling per month

This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.

Against the ai and automation niche

Percentile among the other 672 ai and automation listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size91st

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Check the Course Score

90AVery strong

Ahead of 90% of the 13,558 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure The AI Academy published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 96%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 47%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 53%

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 5,101 members.

Evidence: measured.

First recorded: 6 September 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: Website

Tracked over time

Member change

+8+0.2%over 4 days+43+0.9%over 29 days

Price change

Unchanged at all 10 readings with a price

11 observations over 56 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
1 Nov 2026	5,101	+8	Free to join	Not calculated
28 Oct 2026	5,093	+8	Free to join	Not calculated
24 Oct 2026	5,085	-1	Free to join	Not calculated
23 Oct 2026	5,086	+4	Free to join	Not calculated
19 Oct 2026	5,082	+5	Free to join	Not calculated
15 Oct 2026	5,077	+5	Free to join	Not calculated
11 Oct 2026	5,072	+3	Free to join	Not calculated
7 Oct 2026	5,069	+11	Free to join	Not calculated
3 Oct 2026	5,058	+9	Free to join	Not calculated
28 Sept 2026	5,049	+55	Not recorded	Not calculated
6 Sept 2026	4,994		Free to join	Not calculated
Average per week, last 29 days3 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026		+10
Average per week, since first reading6 Sept 2026 to 1 Nov 2026		+13

Milestones observed

Milestones observed
Members	Crossing	Between readings
5,000	Passed	6 Sept 2026 and 28 Sept 2026

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
1 Nov 2026	484+9	249+1	12+1
23 Oct 2026	475+7	248+2	11-1
15 Oct 2026	468+7	246+2	12
11 Oct 2026	461+13	244+12	12
3 Oct 2026	448+24	232+13	12
6 Sept 2026	424	219	12
Added per week6 Sept 2026 to 1 Nov 2026	+7.5	+3.8	0

Common questions about The AI Academy

What is The AI Academy?: The AI Academy is a free Skool community that teaches AI tools in plain English, with a path from beginner level to building AI agents. It is run by Drew Collins of Founder Drew, a brand operated by Founder Drew LLC, and the group was created in July 2025.
How much does The AI Academy cost?: The AI Academy is free to join on Skool; its listing shows no charge, read 1 Nov 2026.
How many members does The AI Academy have?: The AI Academy lists 5,101 members, read 1 Nov 2026.
How has The AI Academy's membership changed?: From 4,994 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 5,101 on 1 Nov 2026: up 107, or 2%.
How does The AI Academy compare with other ai and automation communities?: The AI Academy is free to join, where the median priced ai and automation listing charges $27 a month. The niche median is 588 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside The AI Academy?: The AI Academy publishes 249 course modules, 12 courses, 484 posts, 1 admin. Communities with the most course content.