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The feed
Posts, comments, reactions. Channels keep the glaze talk out of the beginners' room, and DMs hold the quiet questions. Moderation tools for the one day you need them.
Priya added a photo to #show-your-work
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klaas academy · for people who run communities
Where your people show up.
Klaas Academy runs the whole clubhouse: the feed your members check with their coffee, the courses, the live evenings, the library, the memberships. It lives at your address, wears your look, and sends the money straight to you.
free while in early access · no card · 0% fee on member payments
01 · the part nobody else ships
Change everything
but the people.
Most platforms hand you a logo slot and a colour picker. Academy ships ten hand-built themes — different type, different corners, different moods, several with their own light and dark. One setting re-skins your whole community. Try a few below; this is the real picker, running the real tokens.
Light & dark — engineered, not inverted.
Members pick light or dark for themselves. You pick the theme. Nobody writes CSS.
02 · what’s inside
One roof. Six rooms.
Running a community usually means five subscriptions and a prayer that the links hold. Here it’s one building, and every room already knows your members’ names.
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The classroom
Courses in modules and lessons, progress that tracks itself, and a certificate issued the moment someone finishes. You never print anything.
✓ Centering the clay
✓ Pulling the walls
Trimming & feet 12 min
🎓 Certificate ready at 100%
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The calendar
Workshops, office hours, kiln nights. One tap to RSVP, one shared calendar, so nobody says "wait, that was tonight?"
THU19
Kiln night19:00 · studio
SAT21
Glaze chemistry Q&A11:00 · live
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The library
Every resource in one searchable place. Articles and links today; video, PDFs and paid downloads are next on the bench.
📄 Cone 6 firing schedule pdf · soon
🔗 Celadon recipe, with notes
📄 Studio safety one-pager
Search the library…
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The till
Memberships go from your member's card to your Stripe account. We're not in the middle, and we take 0%. Coupons and one-time sales are coming.
Member · monthly$29.00
→ paid to your Stripe
→ platform fee $0.00
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The back office
A live dashboard of joins, posts, enrolments and RSVPs, plus search across the whole community. Segments and automations are on the way.
212members
38posts this wk
91%renewals
overheard in communities running on academy · all illustrative
June · #beginners
my first mug has a lean. posting it anyway, because rule one.
Harjit · #kiln-nights
who else is bringing snacks thursday? asking for the whole channel.
Lucía · #show-your-work
the celadon recipe WORKS. tomás, I owe you a coffee.
Walt · #wheel-help
day 40: the clay and I have reached an understanding.
Yasmin · #glaze-recipes
certificate arrived the second I finished the last lesson. felt fancy.
Maeve · #events
RSVP'd from the bus. one tap really is one tap.
Kimiko · #show-your-work
the lid FIT. second attempt. screaming, quietly.
Daan · #beginners
lurked a week, posted once, got seven replies. ok. staying.
03 · the 0% part
Your money never meets us.
Members pay you through your own Stripe account. Not into ours, to be forwarded on Thursdays. Yours, directly, from the first euro. Academy’s whole price is the flat monthly plan. We take no percentage of your revenue, on any plan, ever.
say 400 members × $25/mo$10,000
lands in your Stripe$10,000
Academy’s cut$0
Stripe’s card fee still applies. That one was always Stripe’s.
- Stripe Connect, direct — the account is yours; we never hold funds.
- 0% on every plan — including the cheapest one.
- Payouts on Stripe’s schedule — not ours, because there is no ours.
04 · your name on the door
Your place gets an address.
Every community lives on its own subdomain, or on a domain you already own. Members join in the browser on any device — nothing to install, nothing to update — and one login follows them across every Klaas community they belong to.
https://theglaze.klaas.pro
✓ your subdomain, day one✓ custom domain on Scale✓ no member app to install
Early access:everything below is free right now, while we build. No card. When billing switches on you’ll get plenty of warning, and nothing is ever deleted.
05 · the bill
About half of what
the big one charges.
Same limits, same trial, half the subscription. And both directions of billing are included: we bill you, you bill your members.
Launch
Open your doors and start a community.
$9/mo
billed annually
Start free200 members · 1 admin · 5 channels · 10GB
- All 10 themes
- Community feed & channels
- Member directory & profiles
- Stripe-direct payments
- Join page & member approvals
Grow
Add courses, events and a library.
$24/mo
billed annually
Start free1,000 members · 2 admins · 20 channels · 50GB
- Everything in Launch
- Courses (up to 10) & certificates
- Live events & RSVPs
- Content library
- Coupons & one-time sales (soon)
most communities pick this
Scale
Run cohorts at volume with automation.
$54/mo
billed annually
Start free5,000 members · 5 admins · 50 channels · 200GB
- Everything in Grow
- Unlimited courses
- Custom domain
- Analytics dashboard
- Automations & workflows (soon)
- Segments (soon)
Organization
For associations and large academies.
$144/mo
billed annually
Start free20,000 members · ∞ admins · ∞ channels · 500GB
- Everything in Scale
- Priority support
- SSO (soon)
- API & webhooks (soon)
- Unlimited everything
0% transaction fee on every plan. your members pay you, not us.
06 · before you ask
Fair questions.
The ones every creator asks us, answered straight.
Do my members have to install anything?
No. Academy runs in the browser on any device, at your address. You invite with a share link today (email and CSV invites are coming), and one login follows a member across every Klaas community they belong to.
Who holds the money?
You do. Payments go straight to your own Stripe account via Stripe Connect. Academy never sits between you and your revenue, and charges 0% in transaction fees on every plan.
What exactly is a "theme"?
Ten complete, hand-built looks — type, colour, corners, shadows, and light/dark where it fits — that re-skin your whole community from one setting. No CSS, no code. Your members choose their own light or dark preference on top.
What does it cost today?
Nothing. Academy is in early access: everything is free while we build, no card required. The tiers above are the published pricing that will apply when billing switches on — with plenty of notice, and nothing ever deleted.
What’s the "Klaas" part of the name?
Academy is the community-and-learning app in the Klaas family (alongside Publish, CRM and Machine). It stands entirely on its own — you don’t need the rest of Klaas to run an Academy.
Can I use my own domain and branding?
Your own domain, yes — today. Ten full themes, today. Logo and brand-colour controls land with the next branding update, along with a "Powered by" toggle on higher plans.
Leave a light on.
Open your community now, free, and shape Academy with us while we build it. Your first members can walk in tonight.
opening takes about two minutes. the kettle takes three.