Run cohorts your audience
can't refund.
Cohort is the operating system for creators selling live, cohort-based programs — scheduling, a private community, completion certificates, and instant payouts, all in one place, instead of stitched together across five tools.
The Positioning
Sprint
Maya Okafor · Live · 4 weeks · Starts in 4 days
filled
1,200 learners across 38 cohorts running this month.
Static courses get watched once.
Cohorts get word of mouth.
A library of pre-recorded videos has no deadline, no peers, and no reason to finish. A live cohort has all three — which is why creators who move from self-paced to cohort-based programs on Cohort routinely see completion triple inside one launch.
Self-paced courses
Cohort-based programs
Seven cohorts. Seven creators.
Zero spreadsheets.
Every cohort below was built, scheduled, filled, and paid out entirely inside Cohort — no Calendly, no Discord bot, no manual Stripe invoices stitched together by hand.
The Positioning Sprint
"We don't teach positioning theory — by week four you've rewritten your offer live, in front of the cohort, and shipped it."
Cracked Copywriting
Design Systems Intensive
Zero to Ops
The Offer Lab
Story-First Marketing
Pricing for Founders
31 more cohorts
enrolling this month
Across copywriting, design, ops, and founder-track programs from creators building on Cohort.
Browse all cohorts →Everything a paid community needs.
Scheduling, live calls, threads, certificates, and payouts — built to work together, instead of duct-taped from a calendar app, a Discord, and a spreadsheet.
Live sessions & the replay vault
Host studio-quality live calls with breakout rooms, then every session lands in a searchable, timestamped replay vault automatically — no editing, no uploads.
Community, scoped to each cohort
Threaded discussion channels per cohort, with accountability pods of four to six learners — close enough to actually show up for each other.
Verifiable certificates
Completion auto-generates a credential with a public, shareable verification page — proof, not a PDF that anyone could fake.
Instant creator payouts
Keep up to 96% of every seat. Funds clear two business days after each cohort milestone — automatically, no invoicing.
Assignments & peer review
Structured submissions with rubric-based feedback from instructors and peers — the accountability loop that pre-recorded courses can't offer.
Timezone-aware cohort scheduling
Calendar sync, automatic reminders, and waitlists that backfill themselves the moment a seat opens up.
How creator payouts actually work.
No invoices, no chasing students for payment, no waiting on a monthly batch. Cohort handles checkout, runs the program, verifies completion, and pays you out.
Learner enrolls & pays
Stripe Checkout handles tax, currency, and installment plans up front.
The cohort runs live
Sessions, threads, and assignments happen inside Cohort for the full program.
Completion is verified
Attendance and assignment completion auto-generate the certificate.
Payout lands in 2 days
You keep up to 96% of every seat, paid automatically after each milestone.
Start free. Scale when it's working.
$0
+ 8% platform fee per seat
For your first cohort — no monthly commitment.
- Unlimited learners in one live cohort
- Scheduling, replay vault & community
- Certificates & verification pages
- Payouts in 2 business days
$79
/mo + 4% platform fee
For creators running a cohort every month.
- Everything in Starter
- Automated waitlists & backfill
- Affiliate & referral tracking
- Custom-branded certificates
$249
/mo + 2% platform fee
For schools & multi-instructor teams.
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited team & instructor seats
- SSO & advanced permissions
- Dedicated payout manager
Notes from inside live cohorts.
"We sold out The Positioning Sprint in 11 hours and didn't touch a spreadsheet once."Maya Okafor — Brand Strategist
"Payouts hit two days after the cohort wrapped. Every time."Devon Ruiz — Copywriting Coach
"Completion went from 22% on our old platform to 91% the first cohort we ran here."Priya Anand — Design Educator
Before you launch a cohort.
A cohort is scheduled and runs live with a fixed start date, a capped roster, and sessions everyone attends together. A regular course is self-paced — Cohort supports both, but cohorts are where completion and community really show up.
Payouts release automatically after each cohort milestone — typically the kickoff session and the completion date — and clear to your bank within two business days via Stripe Connect.
You set a minimum roster before publishing. If it isn't hit by the cutoff date, Cohort auto-refunds enrolled learners and lets you reschedule the cohort with one click — no manual outreach required.
Every certificate links to a public, hosted verification page with the learner's attendance and assignment record — anyone can confirm it's real, including employers and other platforms.
Yes — import your learner list, existing video library, and Discord or Circle community structure through guided onboarding. Most creators are fully migrated inside a week.
No. The platform fee only applies to paid cohort seats. Free communities, newsletters, and evergreen discussion spaces never carry a take rate.
Your next cohort could be
live in two weeks.
Set a start date, open the waitlist, and let Cohort handle checkout, scheduling, community, certificates, and payouts while you focus on teaching.