Shiken for Creators

Courses, community and AI agents — in one place

Replace Kajabi + Circle + Chatbase + Mindsmith with a single platform built around one question: did your students actually learn?

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Solo Creator · £99/mo annual

One admin, one mission

Build your first paid course, run one community, and ship a Cofounder-guided launch. Up to 500 enrolled learners.

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Creator Team · £299/mo annual (2 admins, +£99/admin up to 5)

Scale your academy

For L&D consultants, bootcamps and training firms. Up to 5 communities, 2,500 learners and full cohort analytics.

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Community

The features you loved in Kajabi, Circle and Skool — with a learning engine inside

Spaces, events, gamification and AI moderation are table stakes. The difference: every conversation, event and reaction feeds back into what your students are learning — so completion rates actually go up.

Spaces, threads and DMs

Topic-based spaces for announcements, Q&A, cohort chat and locked paid channels. Threaded replies, reactions, polls, DMs and rich media — everything members expect from Circle or Kajabi Communities.

Events and live rooms

Schedule live cohort calls, AMA sessions, cohort kick-offs and coaching rooms directly inside the community. RSVP, calendar sync, auto-reminders and AI recaps that drop into the thread the moment the call ends.

Learning-powered gamification

Skool-style points, levels and leaderboards — but tied to real learning. Members earn points for finishing lessons, nailing roleplays and helping others. Levels unlock new spaces, resources and perks.

Smart engagement loops

Shiken nudges inactive members before they churn. Weekly highlights summarise the best threads, a community pulse tells you who to re-engage, and the Cofounder suggests which lessons or events will bring them back.

AI moderation and safety

Real-time spam, self-promo and harassment detection trained on paid-community patterns. Auto-route flagged posts to human review, silence serial offenders and keep your paid members feeling protected — without you living in the moderation queue.

Your community is a knowledge base

Every question, answer and event transcript feeds your AI agent. Recurring questions become lesson updates. Your community makes your course smarter — not the other way round.

Engagement analytics that matter

Daily/weekly/monthly active members, cohort retention, top contributors, and — because it's Shiken — which lessons correlate with the longest stays. Go far beyond Circle's basic analytics.

No per-member fees

Host up to 500 paid members on Solo Creator and 2,500 on Creator Team. No per-active-member surcharges, no tier-capped messaging, no 0.5% transaction fee on top of Stripe. You keep the upside.

AI Agent

A learning-aware AI agent, not a glorified FAQ bot

Chatbase answers questions from your docs. Shiken's agent knows which lessons each learner has finished, which quizzes they failed, and which roleplays they skipped — then assigns the exact content that fixes it.

Capability

Shiken Agent

Chatbase

Knows what each learner has completed

Yes — reads course progress, quiz scores, roleplay turns and weak spots

No concept of learners

Can assign remedial content

Suggests the next lesson, flashcard deck or AI roleplay drill

Text chat only

Multi-modal

Text + voice agent (teleprompter + live roleplay)

Text only

Sources

Courses, community threads, event transcripts, uploaded docs, URLs and CRM data

Docs, websites and CSV only

Grounded answers

Citations back to the specific lesson, timestamp or thread the answer came from

Citations to indexed documents

Cofounder mode for you

Kajabi-Cofounder-style AI coach that reads your products, Stripe data and audience to suggest what to build next

Not supported

Lives inside your course & community

Embedded in the player, the community, and as a pop-out in your Designer/Desktop app

Generic widget on your website

Voice + text

Students can talk to the agent during live roleplay practice, or chat in the course player. Same context, same grounded answers, same citations.

Cofounder mode for you

The same engine powers your Kajabi-style Cofounder agent — it reads your products, Stripe data and audience engagement to suggest what to build, bundle or price next.

AI Course Builder

Ships every lesson complete — not just slides

Mindsmith spits out lessons. Shiken ships every lesson with the quiz, flashcards and voice AI roleplay that make students actually remember it. One source file in, full learning product out.

Capability

Shiken Course Builder

Mindsmith

Input source

Recorded meeting, coaching call, webinar, PDF, URL, video, slide deck or transcript

Text prompt, docs and URLs

What ships with every lesson

Course + quiz + flashcards + AI roleplay drill — all generated from the same source

Lessons, one quiz per module

Assessment depth

MCQ, short-answer, scenario questions, open coaching rubrics and voice roleplay

Multiple choice + short answer

Retention & revision

Spaced-repetition flashcards built-in

Not included

Live practice

Every lesson links to a voice AI roleplay so learners practice the skill, not just read about it

Not supported

Community & engagement

Course, community, gamification, events and coaching all in one

Course only — export to an LMS

Creator coach

Cofounder AI suggests the next course, bundle or price based on completion + Stripe data

Not supported

Auto-update on source change

Re-generate the lesson when the source PDF, transcript or meeting is revised

Manual regenerate

From coaching call to course in 5 min

Drop in a Zoom, Meet or Teams recording — Shiken extracts the framework, writes the lessons, generates the quiz, and creates the roleplay drill. Publish or edit first, your call.

Spaced-repetition baked in

Every lesson auto-generates a flashcard deck that your students revisit via spaced repetition. The knowledge-gap heatmap shows you exactly which concepts need a v2 lesson.

Voice roleplay per lesson

No other AI course tool ships voice practice. Your students get to rehearse the actual skill — sales pitch, coaching call, clinical handoff — with an AI partner grounded in your own material.

One platform instead of five

If you're stitching Kajabi + Circle + Chatbase + Mindsmith together, you're paying four bills and still missing the learning layer.

Feature	Shiken Creator	Kajabi	Circle	Skool	Chatbase	Mindsmith
AI course builder (from PDF/transcript/video)	Full	Basic				Full
AI-generated quiz + flashcards per lesson		Quiz only				Quiz only
Voice AI roleplay drills per lesson
Full paid community (spaces, events, DMs)
Learning-aware AI agent for your learners					Generic bot
Creator Cofounder AI (strategy + pricing)
Coaching-calls-to-courses (meeting recorder)
Gamification tied to course progress		Basic
Stripe Connect, coupons, commission splits
Per-member or per-message fees	No	No	Scales with MAU	No	Per-message	No
Starting price	£99/mo	$149/mo	$89/mo	$99/mo	$40/mo	$24/mo

Pricing rounded to lowest creator-intent tier at time of publish. Compare updated details on each platform's site.

Built for knowledge businesses

If you sell your expertise, Shiken was built for you.

Course creators & coaches

Package your knowledge into professional courses. Run paid cohorts, sell evergreen replays, and use AI roleplays to give every student 1:1 practice — without cloning yourself.

Paid-community founders

Run a Skool/Circle-style community with courses, gamification and events — but with Shiken's learning engine so your members actually finish what they joined for.

Solo L&D consultants

Record client coaching sessions, turn them into branded courses, and resell at scale. Track every learner's weak spots and ship remediation automatically.