Community Builders Community Review — by Ted Carr

Community Builders Review: A Skool Insider’s Free Coaching Community

Community Builders is Ted Carr’s free Skool community designed to help online coaches and content creators reach $5,000 to $10,000 per month by building their own Skool communities. With 8,200+ members and 12 admins, it sits in the mid-tier of Skool’s ecosystem — smaller than the 69,300-member Free Skool Course by Max Perzon, but backed by a creator with an unusual credential: Ted describes himself as a Skool investor and part-owner of the platform.

What makes this Community Builders review worth reading carefully is the gap between the “free” label and the actual experience. The community is genuinely free to join — no credit card, no paywall at the door. But inside, a tiered structure emerges: paid classroom unlocks at $14, $99, and $1,000; a companion paid community called Contentpreneurs at $9 per month; and engagement-based level gating that prevents new members from posting or chatting until they earn their way in. None of this is hidden, but none of it is obvious from the about page either.

The standout feature is one you rarely see in free Skool communities: Ted offers free 1-on-1 private Zoom coaching calls via Calendly for community setup and offer clarity. In a market where most free communities are self-serve by design, that personal access is a genuine differentiator — provided you understand the broader funnel it feeds into.

Who Is Ted Carr?

Ted Carr was born on June 3, 1990, in Vancouver, Canada, and currently lives in Gold Coast, Australia. His career path is distinctive — and worth understanding because it shapes the kind of advice you’ll get inside Community Builders.

He worked as a personal trainer for a full decade, from 2008 to 2018. That’s not a brief stint; it’s the foundation of his professional life. In November 2018, he pivoted to online education, launching Course Creator Academy at tedcarrclass.com, which he ran for nearly six years until July 2024. The transition from physical fitness coaching to digital course creation is the through-line that connects his background to what he teaches today.

The Skool-specific credentials are where it gets interesting. From October 2024 to April 2025, Carr worked directly at Skool alongside founder Sam Ovens. His LinkedIn describes this period as helping “make Skool the best community platform.” He self-identifies as a Skool investor and part-owner — a claim corroborated indirectly by the Skool Canada 2025 event description (which calls him an “early Skool investor” and “7-figure entrepreneur”) and a Skool Stories podcast episode titled “Ted Carr’s Roadmap to $1B.” However, the exact ownership stake or investment structure is not publicly documented.

He won the Skool Games — Skool’s internal competition rewarding community growth — and currently runs Optins.com, a landing page and opt-in tool business. His YouTube channel (“Ted Carr Business,” created in 2012) covers a mix of millionaire mindset, Bitcoin, Skool community building, and coaching business topics. View counts on recent uploads are modest, typically under 1,000 views.

There’s a tension worth naming: Ted teaches people how to build Skool communities while being a Skool part-owner. Every member he helps launch a Skool community generates platform revenue that benefits his equity position, in addition to any affiliate commissions he earns from Skool referrals. The “Earn $99 in 60s” affiliate link sits prominently in the community sidebar. This isn’t disqualifying — deep platform knowledge is genuinely useful for a community-building teacher — but it’s a material conflict of interest that prospective members should understand.

What’s Inside the Free Community

Community Builders’ classroom has 7 visible tiles, but the access model is more nuanced than a simple free-or-paid split.

Free classroom tiles: “Start Here” provides the initial orientation. “Success Stories” showcases client outcomes. “Millionaire Hypnosis” is an unusual addition for a business coaching community — a mindset-oriented module that hints at the broader scope of Ted’s content beyond pure Skool mechanics.

Level-gated content: “The Roadmap” unlocks at Level 1. This is the core strategic content — but accessing it requires accumulating engagement points through likes, comments, and lesson completions first. New members can consume but can’t meaningfully participate until they earn Level 2 (posting) and Level 3 (chat).

Paid unlocks: The “Writing Implementation Call” costs $14. “DFY Scripts + $1000 Workshop + Community” costs $99 and includes access to the Contentpreneurs community. “1-on-1 Coaching” costs $1,000 for personalized private sessions with Ted.

The community feed spans 3,900+ posts across categories including Wins, Questions, Business Idea, Money Systems, Paradigm Shifts, Wealth Building, Money Mindset, Calls, Updates, New Member Intro, and — notably — “Fruit.” Ted is a self-described fruitarian, and his lifestyle interests appear alongside the business coaching content. Whether you find this refreshingly authentic or unfocused depends on what you’re looking for in a business community.

Weekly live calls are a genuine feature of the free tier. The “Offer Clarity Call” appears regularly in the community calendar. More surprising is that Contentpreneurs’ weekly Monday 9 AM calls are hosted inside the free Community Builders group. This means free members get partial access to programming that technically belongs to the paid $9/month community — an underappreciated perk that isn’t promoted on the about page.

The free 1-on-1 Zoom calls deserve special attention. Bookable via Calendly, these private coaching sessions for community setup and offer clarity are unusual at any price point in Skool communities, let alone free ones. In our research of dozens of Skool communities, only a handful offer anything resembling free personal coaching. The practical question is whether these calls function primarily as genuine coaching or as a conversion touchpoint for the paid tiers — likely both, and that’s not inherently a problem as long as the coaching itself delivers value.

The Level Gating Question

Community Builders uses Skool’s built-in level system with aggressive thresholds that deserve scrutiny. Level 1 unlocks the Roadmap content. Level 2 unlocks the ability to post in the community feed. Level 3 unlocks chat.

For new members, this creates a consumption-only experience until they earn enough engagement points. You can read posts and complete lessons, but you can’t ask questions, share wins, or participate in discussions. In a community that teaches community building — where engagement and contribution are the core skills — gating participation behind engagement metrics creates a somewhat ironic dynamic.

The intent behind level gating is clear: it reduces spam, filters for serious members, and increases perceived content quality. These are legitimate goals, especially for a free community where low barriers to entry can attract low-quality participation. But it also means the community’s 8,200+ member count includes a significant portion of members who haven’t yet earned the right to participate. The 3,902 visible posts from a community of 8,200 suggests meaningful activity, but the ratio between lurkers and contributors is unclear.

Pricing and the Freemium Funnel

The core Community Builders experience is free. What sits around it is a carefully layered monetization structure that prospective members should understand upfront.

The $14 Writing Implementation Call is the lowest-friction paid upgrade. The $99 package bundles scripts, a workshop recording, and Contentpreneurs community access — making it both a content purchase and a gateway to the paid sister community. The $1,000 1-on-1 coaching is the premium tier, offering personalized strategy sessions with Ted directly. These prices are fixed classroom unlocks, not recurring subscriptions.

The companion Contentpreneurs community (skool.com/contentpreneur) costs $9/month and has 348 members — a small but dedicated group focused on content-driven business building. The overlap between Contentpreneurs and Community Builders is significant: the weekly Monday calls cross-pollinate between the two, and the $99 DFY Scripts package includes Contentpreneurs access.

Ted also documents 127 client success stories on an external platform, each showing income deltas. These are exclusively self-reported — no independent audit or verification was found. The claims of “hundreds of beginners from $0 to $5k–$10k/month” appear throughout the community’s marketing but lack third-party corroboration.

For context within the best money communities on Skool, Community Builders’ freemium model sits between purely free communities like the AI Automation Agency Hub (which has no paid unlocks at all) and mid-range paid communities like the $99/month premium Skool coaching tiers.

How Community Builders Compares

The Skool-about-Skool niche is crowded, and “Community Builders” isn’t even a unique name on the platform. Ron Medlin runs both “Community Builders - Free” (skool.com/group-profits, 10,600 members) and “Community Builders - Elite” ($99/month). Ted’s community at skool.com/communitybuilders is a distinct operation from both.

Max Perzon’s Free Skool Course at 69,300 members is the dominant free competitor. Perzon won the 2024 Skool Games and takes a structured course-first approach focused on Skool setup mechanics. His community is larger, more course-oriented, and purely focused on Skool — there’s no drift into wealth mindset or lifestyle content. Ted’s advantage is the personal touch (free 1-on-1 calls) and insider credibility (Skool investor, former Skool employee). The disadvantage is scale, content focus, and the more complex freemium structure.

Skoolaroos by Robb Bailey (11,600 members) targets pure beginners with a 3-day community setup approach. It’s less ambitious in scope but more tightly focused and accessible.

A notable absence from this comparison: Skoolers by Sam Ovens (183,800 members) — the official Skool platform community. While it’s the largest community in this category, it serves a different function as the platform’s own learning hub rather than a third-party coaching operation.

The broader pattern across all these communities is worth noting: every free Skool-about-Skool community generates revenue through Skool affiliate commissions. When Ted, Max Perzon, or Ron Medlin teach you to build a Skool community, each new community launched earns the teacher affiliate income from Skool’s referral program. This isn’t unique to Community Builders — it’s the business model of the entire niche. Ted’s investor stake adds an additional layer that the others don’t carry.

That event description captures both Ted’s positioning strength and its limitation. “Early Skool investor” is a genuine credential that competitors can’t claim. “Helped hundreds of beginners” is a claim that — as of this review — rests entirely on self-reported data from Ted’s own platform. The 127 client success stories are documented with income deltas, but no independent third party has verified whether these outcomes are typical, cherry-picked, or representative of the broader membership experience.

Who Should Join Community Builders

Community Builders works best for coaches who are early in their Skool journey and want a combination of free resources and personal access. The free 1-on-1 call alone is worth the sign-up for anyone seriously considering launching a community. Where it gets more complex is if you expect pure Skool education — the content scope extends into wealth mindset, paradigm shifts, and lifestyle topics that may or may not serve your immediate goals.

Our Verdict on Community Builders

Community Builders earns a Mixed verdict — a community with genuinely generous free features wrapped in a freemium structure that’s more complex than its marketing suggests. The free 1-on-1 coaching call is the standout: in a landscape of self-serve free communities, personal access to a Skool insider is rare and legitimately valuable for coaches evaluating whether to build on the platform.

Ted Carr’s credentials are real but specific. He’s a decade-long fitness coach who transitioned to online education, not a technology or community-building veteran. His Skool insider status — investor, Games winner, former employee — gives him platform knowledge that most Skool educators can’t match. But that same insider status means he profits from Skool adoption on multiple levels (affiliate, equity, coaching), creating a conflict of interest that colors his recommendations.

The practical concern for new members is the gap between the “free” promise and the gated reality. You can join for free, but you can’t post until Level 2, can’t chat until Level 3, and the most valuable classroom content sits behind either engagement gates or $14–$1,000 paywalls. None of this is deceptive — it’s all visible once you’re inside — but it’s also not what “free community” typically implies. The zero independent reviews or third-party coverage after 8,200+ members is the final data point worth weighing: every testimonial traces back to Ted’s own channels.

For coaches exploring the Skool platform, Community Builders is a reasonable free starting point — especially if you take advantage of the 1-on-1 call. For those who want structured Skool education without a freemium funnel, the larger and more focused alternatives may serve you better.