#6 in AI & TechSkoolfrom $249/month

Open Source AI Builder's Club

Open Source AI Builder's Club is for builders done renting AI. Run local LLMs, agents and RAG on your own hardware.

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Pricing: $249 a monthWell above the ai & tech median of $9.
Size: 101 membersBigger than 9% of the ai & tech communities indexed here.
Revenue ceiling: $25,149 a monthIf every member paid the listed price. Free tiers, discounts and churn are not visible from outside.
Platform: Skool
Category: AI & Tech
Last verified: 28 October 2026

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About Open Source AI Builder's Club

Open Source AI Builder's Club is for builders done renting AI. Run local LLMs, agents and RAG on your own hardware.

Why you should join: 26 video courses with day-by-day roadmaps, a vault of RAG starters, MCP servers and templates, weekly drops, live build calls and daily answers to your posts. Membership is $249 a month.

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The one-liner

A Skool club that teaches builders to run local LLMs, agents and RAG on their own hardware.

What they actually sell

Open Source AI Builder's Club, run by Hamish Aman Prakash, lives on Skool. Its public pitch: "For anyone who is done with renting AI." Membership costs $249 a month. Hamish promises an owned AI stack in 90 days. Inside are 26 video courses with day-by-day roadmaps from a first local model to tool-calling agents, a Builder's Vault with a RAG starter, MCP servers, Ollama model files and templates, weekly vault drops and live build calls. Bonuses include daily personal answers to posts and a 200-page book. The page frames the price per day, offers an annual saving, says cancel anytime and warns of a price rise in January 2027. Inside sit 26 courses and a dense module library. Cancel anytime is part of the risk frame.

Who pays and why

Developers and business owners tired of renting AI and paying API bills. They want control of their data and their costs. They pay for 26 video courses, a downloadable builder's vault and live build calls.

Where the members come from

Hamish Aman Prakash's YouTube, LinkedIn and website presence appears to feed the room. The Skool community reads as the member back end for people already drawn to that work. Exact follower counts stay off the public page.

What's holding it back

It is priced high for a community, and daily personal answers from Hamish will be hard to keep up as numbers grow.

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Ship new downloadable assets every week, so members always have something new to use.

Would this work in another niche?

Yes for any self-hosting movement, such as home servers or open-source finance tools. Weak for mainstream consumer tools.

Written 28 October 2026

Reviews

5.0(4 reviews)

Riaz Khan

From Skool

“I'm fairly new here but I will say...I've been looking for a community involving open weight LLMs for a while so i'm really happy to have found one.it does seem like the latest models are being recently discussed. And there is a lot of great information about how to use tools like OpenWebUI that I have used in the past but wasn't really familiar with some of More impressive features that it comes with. I also love how energetic... The videos are I love the energy and the excitement.”

Jess Hopley-Willcock

From Skool

“If you are looking to build an AI Empire without sacrificing your money, the environment or personal data, this is the place for you. He is an absolute wealth of knowledge and I haven't met a human more passionate about AI, financial freedom and protecting the environment than he is. Its a learning curb, but well worth the journey if you take it.”

Vince Warnock

From Skool