Own your course
platform outright.
A Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, and Skool alternative built for you: web, native iOS, and native Android, with the features the big platforms ship. No monthly platform fee. No cut of your sales. Your brand, your students, your code.
For schools past the experiment stage, where the platform fee and the transaction cut have become a real line in the accounts.
What ownership changes
- 3
- Web, iOS, Android
- 0%
- Cut of your sales
- $0
- Platform subscription
- 100%
- Code and data yours
You are renting your school and paying for the privilege.
Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, and Skool got you launched, and that is worth something. But you are on somebody else's template, paying a floor every month whether you sell or not, and often handing over a slice of each transaction on top.
The app, if there is one, is theirs. The feature your students keep asking for is on a roadmap you do not control. And the day you want to leave, your courses, your community, and your customer list are inside a platform you will never own.
Renting made sense when building cost roughly ten times what it costs now. That changed. Take a school paying $12,000 a year in platform fees and transaction cuts: that is $120,000 over ten years flat, or about $151,000 once you allow for a 5% annual escalation. A $30,000 build with no subscription is $30,000 across the same ten years. Break-even is year 2.5.
Run your own numbers on the cost calculator.
Good enough to start. Not built to keep.
Platform 01
Kajabi
All-in-one and genuinely capable, but there is a monthly floor whether you sell anything or not, and the app your students download is theirs, not yours.
Platform 02
Teachable and Thinkific
Solid course hosting. Transaction fees appear on lower tiers, and control over the student experience stops where their theme system stops.
Platform 03
Skool
Strong community and gamification, thin on real course tooling, and you are one of thousands of schools on the same template.
Platform 04
Course marketplaces
They bring traffic, and in exchange they take a large share of the sale, own the customer relationship, and set the price you are allowed to charge.
If a platform does it, your version of it is buildable.
Not all of it at once. A first release covers what your school actually runs on, and the rest gets added when it earns its place.
01
Courses and drip content
Video lessons, modules, prerequisites, and scheduled releases. Resume where you left off, on any device.
02
Memberships and subscriptions
Recurring plans, tiers, trials, and one-time purchases, billed through your own payment account with no platform cut.
03
Live cohorts and scheduling
Cohort courses with start dates, live sessions, calendars, and reminders that fire without anyone remembering to send them.
04
Community and gamification
Feeds, discussions, leaderboards, points, and levels, running inside your brand instead of on a shared template.
05
Quizzes, certificates, and AI
Auto-graded quizzes, completion certificates, and AI tutoring or question generation where it genuinely helps the lesson.
06
Payments and affiliates
Checkout, coupons, order bumps, upsells, and an affiliate program that pays your promoters without a spreadsheet.
07
Native iOS and Android
A real app under your name, with push notifications and offline lessons, published to your own developer accounts.
08
Analytics and admin
Enrollment, completion, churn, and revenue on one live screen. Manage students, refunds, and content without exporting anything.
A real app in the App Store, under your name.
Most course platforms ship a web page in a wrapper, or a shared app where you are a tenant under their logo. Students notice. Completion and retention pay for it.
We build a true native iOS and Android app alongside the web app: push notifications, offline downloads, in-app purchase where the stores require it, published under your own developer account with your icon on the home screen.
Store review, in-app purchase rules, and platform policy changes are part of the job and are planned for in the build rather than discovered after launch.
A monthly floor plus a slice of every sale becomes one fixed build that pays itself off, and leaves you owning the platform, the app, and the customer list instead of renting them back forever.
Your students should barely notice.
The reason most creators stay put is the thought of moving. So moving is our job. Courses, lessons, files, student accounts, progress, and purchase history come across before anyone is asked to switch, and active subscriptions are transitioned rather than cancelled and re-sold.
For your students it is one email and a new password. For you it is a cutover date you choose, with the old platform still standing until you are satisfied.
Pick the path that fits where you are.
Tier 01
Own It
Pay once. Own the platform, the code, and the student data. No equity, no subscription.
Tier 02
Partner Build
Reduced cash plus a minority equity position. We stay on as the long-term technical side of the business.
Tier 03
No Capital? No Problem
The equity-led path for a small number of operators. We build it, you bring the audience.
Most course platform builds are quoted between $8,000 and $40,000 CAD as a fixed price. A large platform with native apps on both stores is scoped and quoted individually. Full detail on the pricing page.
Before you book a call.
- Can you build a custom alternative to Kajabi or Teachable?
- Yes. Course hosting, drip content, memberships, cohorts, community, quizzes, certificates, payments, and analytics, built as a platform you own outright. No monthly platform fee and no percentage taken out of your sales.
- Do I get native iOS and Android apps, or only a website?
- Both, when the project calls for it. Most course platforms either have no real app or a shared one where you are a tenant under someone else's logo. We build the web app plus native iOS and Android from one codebase, published under your own developer accounts in the App Store and Google Play.
- Can you build a specific feature I saw on another platform?
- Almost always. Community feeds, points and leaderboards, scheduled drips, live cohorts, certificates, affiliate programs, AI tutoring and quiz generation. If a platform does it, your version of it is buildable. The teardown call is where we work out which of those actually move your numbers and which are decoration.
- How much does a custom course platform cost?
- Most builds are quoted between $8,000 and $40,000 CAD as a fixed price, agreed before kickoff and billed on milestones. A large platform with native apps on both stores and a wide feature set is scoped and quoted individually. Hosting afterwards is paid to the hosting provider rather than to us and varies with the build, plus your payment processing.
- Do I own the platform and the student data?
- Yes. Full source, the platform, and all of your student and revenue data transfer to you on final payment, hosted in your own accounts. You are never locked into a subscription to keep your own school running, and you can hand the codebase to another developer without asking us.
- What happens after launch?
- There is no mandatory retainer. Take the code and owe nothing, or keep an hourly relationship priced by the complexity of what we built and triaged by severity, so a checkout outage is handled now and a copy change waits for the next available week. App store policy changes and payment provider updates are predictable work, priced in from day one rather than sprung on you later.
The rest, including what happens if we disappear, is on the FAQ.
You are handing over your student list.
Which is exactly when you should ask a vendor for their coverage. Certificates go out on request, usually the same day.
- Commercial general liability
- $5,000,000
- Professional liability (E&O)
- $2,000,000
- Cyber liability
- $2,000,000
- WorkSafeBC account
- 201966367
Bound and in force.
Bound and in force.
Bound and in force.
Active. Clearance letter on request.
Map your course platform in 30 minutes.
Show us the platform you are on, what it costs you a year, and the features you wish it had. Within 24 hours you get a written breakdown of what we would build and what it would cost.