Maker School: AI Automation Skool Review (2026)

Two thousand, five hundred and twenty-five members. Forty-six thousand, two hundred and ninety-one posts. Two admins.

Hold those three numbers together, because the whole judgement on Maker School sits between them.

The disclosure first. I am not a member here and no money has gone to Nick Saraev. What follows is built from the community’s public Skool About page, the member reviews that only paying members can leave, and the founder’s own public channels, captured on 9 September 2026. Where a figure comes from the sales copy instead of Skool’s own data, I mark it as the seller’s claim.

Quick Decision

Join if you want to build AI automation services for clients, you will do the work daily, and you are comfortable learning mostly from other members rather than from staff. At $184 a month with 745 modules and a feed this active, the value per dollar is the best in Skool’s top five.

Hold off if you need personal attention, if you are hoping to be walked through it, or if you would only join for the refund guarantee without reading its terms first. Two admins cannot give 2,525 people one-to-one help, whatever the page implies.

You can read the current terms yourself on the Maker School listing before deciding.

Inside The Library And The Feed

Forty-six thousand posts across 2,525 members is 18.3 posts per member. That is the highest total post count in this ranking, and it comes from a community charging $184 a month rather than $1,700.

One hundred and forty-seven people were online at the moment of capture, close to six percent of the entire membership at once. A room that busy answers questions whether or not staff are watching, which turns out to be the point.

745 modules for $184

Twelve courses and 745 modules is a serious library at this price. The named tracks cover Claude, n8n and end-to-end automation builds, plus lead generation and sales material aimed at getting a first client rather than at technical practice for its own sake.

For comparison, communities in the tier above charge ten times as much for a fifth of the modules. Whatever else is true here, you are not short of material.

Two numbers that do not match

The sales page advertises 218 exclusive videos and guides. Skool’s own record shows 745 modules.

The likeliest explanation is dull: the page counts long-form videos while Skool counts every module, including templates, scripts and text lessons. But the mismatch is worth naming, because a buyer reading “218” and finding 745 has no way to tell which measure applies to the thing they actually wanted.

The page also claims more than 50 templates and scripts, $21,000 in immediate discounts to automation platforms, and a total value above $40,000 with a further $10,000 in bonuses. Those valuations are the seller’s arithmetic, not a market price. Ignore them and count modules.

Two Admins For 2,525 Members

This is the number I would want every prospective member to see.

Two admin accounts. Two thousand, five hundred and twenty-five members. That is one staff account per 1,262 people, and it is by a wide margin the thinnest ratio in Skool’s top five by revenue. The tier above runs one admin per 42 to 58 members.

Now put it next to what the offer promises. The page says the founder responds to almost every post each day, runs a daily Q&A where he records custom videos for members, and holds weekly calls where you can ask anything.

Those promises are made by one person to 2,525 people, in a feed carrying 46,291 posts.

I am not saying they are broken. Several member reviews specifically praise how active he is, and the daily Q&A format is designed to batch exactly this problem. High-volume creators do sustain it. But arithmetic is arithmetic, and the honest way to describe the product is that most of your answers will come from other members, not from staff.

That is fine if you expect it. It is a bad surprise if you joined believing you had bought access to a person.

Nick Saraev’s Public Record

Nick Saraev has run Maker School since July 2023 and is based in Canada. He describes the programme as the fastest and most affordable way to land a first client for AI services.

His transparency is a clear strength. Five public links sit on the profile: YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Instagram and his own website. You can watch hours of his teaching for free before spending anything, which is exactly what I would do with a $184 monthly decision. If the free material does not hold your attention, the paid version will not either.

The claim you cannot check

The page states he has done $160,000 a month across two agencies, and that the proposals, scripts and assets he used are included inside.

That figure has no source, no date range and no audit. It may well be accurate. It is not verifiable from outside, so it should carry no weight in your decision.

What you can verify is whether the free content teaches you something. That is a better signal than any revenue screenshot, and it costs nothing to test.

The $184 Price, And The One That Is Coming

Here the listing is thinner than it should be.

The join button read $184 per month on the capture date. The listing carried no structured price record at all, so unlike most communities there is no second source confirming what will be charged. The button is the whole story.

The sales copy adds a warning that the price is rising to $194 a month soon. No date is given.

Both of those are ordinary for a Skool listing, and $184 is genuinely low for what is inside. Even so, take a screenshot of the price on the day you join. A page that announces a rise without a date is telling you the number is not fixed.

What the price does not include

No annual plan is shown. No trial. No free tier.

Cancellation terms are not described anywhere, though Skool memberships are generally month to month. The only exit route the page discusses is the guarantee, which needs its own section.

Reading The 90-Day Guarantee Closely

The promise is stated three separate times on the page: get your first paying AI client within 90 days or your money back.

That is a strong offer and it is unusual in this category. It also has a hole.

Nowhere does the page publish the conditions. Every guarantee of this shape carries them, and they normally include things like completing a set number of modules, sending a minimum number of outreach messages, or posting proof of work in the feed. Those requirements are reasonable. A refund promise with no work requirement would be free money.

The problem is that you cannot read them before you pay. So the guarantee, as published, is a marketing claim rather than a term you can rely on.

Ask before joining, in writing, what qualifies you for the refund and what disqualifies you. If the answer is clear and fair, the offer gets stronger. If nobody will put it in writing, treat the 90-day promise as decoration and decide on the $184 alone.

One member handled this with more humour than I could: they wrote that they unfortunately cannot get a refund because they landed their first client in under 30 days, and that the community works if you show up and follow the programme (a member review on Skool, September 2026).

Ninety Reviews, One Outcome Named

Ninety reviews at a straight 5.0 average, from 2,525 members. That is a 3.6 percent response rate, which is normal for a community of this size.

Skool only accepts reviews from paying members, so none of these can be purchased or automated. A perfect average across 90 entries is still worth treating carefully, because members who quit tend to leave silently instead of writing.

Two more worth quoting. One member calls it one of the best decisions of their life and says it is life changing (a member review on Skool, September 2026). Another describes the group as very helpful and the founder as extremely active (a member review on Skool, September 2026).

The gap in the reviews

Only one visible review names an outcome, and it names a timeframe rather than a number. Nobody reports a client value, a monthly revenue figure, or how many attempts it took.

For a community whose entire promise is a first paying client in 90 days, that is the evidence I would most want and it is not there. The reviews tell you people like the room and rate the founder’s responsiveness. They do not tell you the hit rate on the guarantee.

Where the affiliate rate fits

Maker School pays 20 percent. On $184 a month that is roughly $37 per member per month, recurring, so a referral who stays a year is worth about $441.

That commission is why so much positive coverage of this community exists, and why so little of it mentions the admin ratio. Read every recommendation you find with the question of who gets paid when you click.

Don’t Join If

• You need personal coaching. Two admins across 2,525 members will not provide it.
• You are joining for the refund. Its conditions are not published, so you cannot rely on them.
• You will not post. The value here comes from a 46,291-post feed you have to participate in.
• You want a finished business handed over. This teaches client acquisition, which is sales work.

My Verdict

I score Maker School 4.3 out of 5.

The value per dollar is the reason. Seven hundred and forty-five modules across 12 courses at $184 a month is more material than communities charging ten times more, and a feed carrying 46,291 posts from 2,525 members means help exists at any hour whether or not staff are online. The founder is publicly checkable across five channels, which lets you test his teaching for free before paying anything. A refund tied to a concrete outcome is more than most sellers in this category offer.

The deductions are two, and both are structural. One admin per 1,262 members cannot support a promise of daily personal responses, so expect peer help rather than staff help. And the guarantee that makes the offer feel safe never publishes the conditions that decide whether you qualify.

Watch a few hours of the free material first, then ask what the refund actually requires. If both answers hold, $184 is a fair price for this much library. For a cheaper entry into the same skill set, our AI Agents Course review covers the technical side, and the AI Profit Boardroom review looks at a community aimed at the client-getting half of the problem.