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🤖 AI & TechA premium live membership: AI & Tech for people who want results, not another feed
With 48,000 monthly searches for the top term "ai agents" in the AI & Tech category, interest in this subject is substantial, reflected by a year-on-year increase of 120.4%. However, pricing remains mostly unpublished, as only 11 out of 54 communities disclose a monthly fee, with a median price of $9 among those. This presents an opportunity for you to establish a unique offering. Your format of live sessions and video aligns well with current engagement trends, and you can start by inviting a founding cohort of 10–20 members, dedicating 15 or more hours each week to foster community growth.
The evidence
Live data from the AI & Tech category on Membership Index.
- 54
- communities indexed
- $9/mo
- median published price
- 11 of 54
- publish a price
| Price band | Communities |
|---|---|
| Free | 1 |
| Under $10 | 6 |
| $10–25 | 0 |
| $25–50 | 1 |
| $50–100 | 2 |
| $100+ | 1 |
Search demand
US · measured 19 hours ago- ai agents↑ +120% year on year48,000/mo
- ai automation12,000/mo
- learn ai5,000/mo
65,000 searches a month across these terms. Ranking difficulty 87/100, so search results here are dominated by established sites. Search volume measures interest in the subject, not willingness to pay for a community about it. Treat it as the size of the room, not the size of the business.
The gap: Pricing here is mostly unpublished: 11 of 54 AI & Tech communities show a monthly price, and 7 of those 11 are free or under $25 a month. Anyone who states a price plainly is already unusual.
Based on 11 listings with a published price, last recomputed 3 hours ago.
Proof the model works
Real communities from the index, nearest your suggested price band.
AI Automation Society Plus4k members · Skool$99/mo- 2 more comparables in the full report
Suggested model
What to charge, the format to run and the weekly cadence that fits your hours.
Unlock with your email ↓How to get the first members
The three channels that fit your audience, format and hours, with a first step for each, and the ones to avoid.
Unlock with your email ↓Narrower niches worth going after
Narrower segments inside your category, each with the search term and difficulty behind it.
Unlock with your email ↓Where to build it
Because you want members on camera, which is its default interaction model, and video-first trust is what earns a premium price.
Because owning the brand end to end supports premium positioning.
Swarm is operated by Growth Maps Media Ltd, which also operates this index. The scoring used is a fixed, independent rules table that applies no preference to Swarm, and ties are broken away from it.
Other AI & Tech examples
- Low-ticket course to a large audience
- Discussion-led, to a warm audience
- Mixed format, mid-sized audience
- Live sessions as a side income
Generated from the same six answers the Idea Finder asks, against live data from the AI & Tech category. No real person’s report is published here.