Launch your courses, community, and paid memberships — and your own website.
📖 Creator Guide
Everything you need to launch on Sukulu
To launch on Sukulu, describe what you teach and its AI drafts a course, a community, and your own website in about a minute. You shape it in the Studio, then publish for $97/month to open paid memberships — payments go straight to your own Stripe account, and Sukulu takes 0% of your sales. Most creators are live the same day.
🎓 Courses💬 Community💳 0% platform fees🌐 Your own website
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Chapter 1
What is Sukulu?
Sukulu is the creator platform from LocalPilot. You get everything a Skool, Kajabi, or Circle gives you — courses, a community, and paid memberships — plus a real website of your own. AI drafts the whole thing for you in about a minute.
💜 What makes it different
0% platform fees. Members pay you directly through your own Stripe account — Sukulu never takes a cut of your membership revenue. You only pay Stripe's standard processing fee, which Stripe lists as 2.9% + 30¢ per successful card charge on its public pricing page. One flat $97/month runs everything: courses, community, live sessions, funnels, webinars, and a published website at sukulu.app/your-handle.
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Courses
Structured lessons with video (YouTube/Vimeo), PDFs and downloads, rich text, quizzes, and certificates. Members watch, track progress, and earn completion.
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Community (CampFire)
Channels, posts, threads, live sessions, a members directory, and gamified levels — a real home for your people, not just a comment box.
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Memberships
Free, subscription (monthly/yearly), one-time, or tiered access — collected through your own Stripe. You keep 100% minus Stripe's fee.
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Your website
A polished public landing page at sukulu.app/your-handle — the front door to your courses and community. It's a real, indexable website, the kind Google crawls and ranks, not a profile locked inside someone else's app.
Chapter 2
Create your space
You don't start with a blank page. Describe your idea and AI drafts a real starting point — a first course, a community with channels, art, and a welcome session — that you then shape.
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Go to the Create page
Open sukulu.app/create and tell Sukulu what you teach or what your community is about — one sentence is enough (e.g. "A membership for options traders learning weekly income strategies").
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Create your account
Sign up with email or Google. This is your creator login — the same account you'll use to manage everything.
💡 Whenever you sign in from sukulu.app, you land straight in your Studio. Signing in on localpilot.pro takes you to the classic business dashboard instead.
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AI drafts your space
In under a minute you get a drafted course, a community with a starter channel, cover art, a welcome event, and a first quiz — all editable. Nothing is public yet; you're building privately.
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Land in your Studio
You're dropped into your Studio home — your command center for shaping, previewing, and publishing.
Chapter 3
Your Studio
The Studio is your home base. A sidebar on the left takes you to every part of your space, your work sits in the middle, and a status rail on the right keeps your live link, next class and recent activity in view. On a phone the sidebar tucks into a bottom tab bar — tap More for the full menu.
The Studio Overview — sidebar navigation, your key numbers, quick actions and your courses, all on one screen.
The Overview
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Your numbers at a glance
Four cards across the top — Total Students, Courses, Live Classes and Revenue — each with a 30-day trend. Honest counts, straight from your space.
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Create & Manage
A row of one-tap tiles for your most-used tools — Create Course, Go Live, Build Website, Create Funnel and Send Invite — with a ⋮ More Actions menu for everything else.
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My Courses
Your courses sit right on the home screen as cards. Open one to shape it, use the ⋯ menu on a card to edit, publish, duplicate or reorder — or just click a card to preview it in the status panel on the right.
The sidebar & status rail
Navigation (left sidebar)
Overview · Courses · Community · Students · Events & Classes · Website & Pages · Funnels & Marketing · Analytics & Revenue · Storefront · Integrations · Settings. Help & Guide (this page) and Sign out sit at the bottom.
Status rail (right)
Academy Status shows your sukulu.app link, whether you're live or a draft, your next live class and a Manage Events button. Below it: Recent Activity (members who've been active) and Sukulu Tips.
🧭 Top bar & switching
The top bar holds search, notifications, Help and your account avatar. Run more than one community? A switcher by your space name hops between them without leaving the Studio. Signing out returns you to the Sukulu front door at sukulu.app.
On a phone the sidebar becomes a bottom tab bar — Home · Courses · Community · Analytics · More. Tap More for the full menu.
🚀 Ready to go live?
While your space is still a draft, the View Live Page button in the status panel reads Preview — try the full member experience before anyone else sees it. Publishing (from Website & Pages) is what starts your paid plan (see Chapter 8).
Chapter 4
Build your courses
Open Courses from the sidebar and pick a course to open the Curriculum editor. Organise your content into sections and lessons down the middle, and watch a Live Preview of the selected lesson on the right — exactly what a member sees. Each lesson can carry a video, a downloadable resource, and rich formatted notes.
The Curriculum editor — sections and lessons on the left, a live member-preview of the selected lesson on the right.
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Add sections & lessons
Use ＋ Add Section and ＋ Add Lesson to shape your curriculum. New sections and lessons save automatically — no pop-ups, no full-page reload. Drag or use the ⋯ menu to reorder. Give each a clear title — that's what students see.
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Open a lesson to edit it
Click ✎ Edit on a lesson to open the full editor right in place (the curriculum stays beside it). Set the lesson type, paste a video, write notes and attach resources, then Save Changes.
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Add a video
Paste an unlisted YouTube or Vimeo link. Sukulu detects the video and plays it privately inside the lesson — your video stays gated to members.
🎬 Unlisted (not private) is the right YouTube setting — private videos can't embed.
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Attach resources & write notes
Upload a PDF or worksheet, and use the rich-text editor for lesson notes (headings, lists, links, bold). Documents, images and PDFs show inline — members read them without leaving the lesson.
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Preview, then publish
The Live Preview panel on the right shows each lesson as a member sees it as you build — no separate step. When a course is ready, publish it; individual courses can go live while the whole space is still a draft.
⋯ The course card menu
Every course card has a ⋯ button (top-right of its cover). It opens a quick menu: ✏️ Edit course, 📅 Schedule Event (books a live class pre-titled with the course name — see Chapter 6), Move left / right to reorder, 🚀 Publish / 🙈 Unpublish, ⧉ Duplicate, and 🗑 Delete.
Quizzes & certificates
Inside a course, open 📝 Quiz & certificate to add a multiple-choice quiz. Write questions by hand, or set a "Questions to generate" count and let AI build a bank from your course documents. A Save button sits at the top of the editor so you can save at any point.
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Set a pass mark
Grading is done server-side. Choose the score students need to pass.
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Automatic certificates
When a student passes, Sukulu issues a certificate automatically — branded in your academy's accent color and logo, printable, and verifiable by anyone at a public /certificate link.
Chapter 5
Your community
Your CampFire community is where members talk, ask, and stick around. Open 🔥 Go CampFire from Quick actions to set up categories, channels, roles, and posts.
Add a community logo
A logo makes your community recognizable in the directory and on member dashboards. Without one, cards show a colored letter tile.
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Open your community, then ⚙️ Settings
Inside your community's left sidebar (as the owner) you'll see ⚙️ Settings.
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Upload under "Community logo"
At the top of the settings sheet, click Upload, pick a square PNG/JPG (under 5MB), and it saves instantly. Use Change or Remove anytime.
🖼️ Your card on the Go CampFire directory switches from the letter tile to your logo right away.
Chapter 6
Classes & live events
Sukulu isn't just recorded courses — you can run live classes and sessions right from your space. Open 🗓️ Events & classes in Quick actions to schedule one.
Schedule a class
1
Pick a title, date & time
Set the title, date, time, timezone, and duration. Add an email reminder (from 15 minutes to 1 day before) so registrants don't forget.
2
Make it repeat (optional)
One-off, or recurring daily / weekly / monthly. Recurrence is derived from the date you pick — a Saturday date simply repeats every Saturday — with a plain-language summary shown as you set it.
3
Choose where it happens
Under Video, pick 🔗 Paste a link (Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams) or 🎥 Host in Sukulu — a built-in video room (powered by Jitsi / 8x8) where you join as the moderator and no outside account is needed.
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Link it to a course (optional)
Attach the class to one of your courses and a course badge shows on the event. Even faster: open a course's ⋯ menu → 📅 Schedule Event and the event opens pre-titled with that course's name.
Per-class pricing
Each class sets its own price under Pricing:
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Free for everyone
Anyone who registers can attend at no charge.
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Free for academy members · others pay
Your members join free; non-members buy a ticket.
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Everyone pays
A set ticket price for all. Paid tickets run through your academy's connected Stripe, so paid or members-free classes need Stripe connected in Financial Settings first. Owner-invited people are always free.
Registrations
Every class occurrence has a Registrations panel (the 👥 Registrations button on an upcoming date). From it you can:
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🔗
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✨ Auto-attendance
For Sukulu-hosted classes, registrants who actually join the video room are marked attended automatically — you can still override any mark by hand.
Reminders your students actually get
When someone registers, they get an email confirmation with a calendar invite and a reminder before class. From the confirmation / join page they can also opt into a browser (web-push) reminder.
Students CRM
Open 🧑🎓 Students CRM in Quick actions for a single roster of everyone you've invited, registered, or enrolled across all your classes. See class counts and attendance at a glance, open a student to view their full class history, edit notes, tags, and status, and export the whole roster to CSV.
Chapter 7
Members & memberships
Invite people for free to build momentum, then turn on paid access when you're ready. Money flows through your own Stripe — Sukulu takes 0%.
Invite members free
From 👥 Members, invite students by email to join at no charge — perfect for seeding your community or migrating people you already have (there's an "Import from Skool" option too).
Turn on paid access
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Connect Stripe
In 💳 Financial Settings (in Quick actions), connect your Stripe account. This is where members' payments land — directly to you.
2
Choose a pricing model
Free, Subscription (monthly, yearly, or both), One-time lifetime access, or Tiers (multiple levels, each unlocking different channels/courses). Add a free trial if you like.
3
Keep 100% (minus Stripe)
Sukulu charges no platform fee on memberships. Members are granted or revoked automatically as their subscription changes.
💳 If a multi-tier price is set, your public page shows the lowest tier as the starting price.
Chapter 8
Funnels & webinars
Grow your audience with owner-hosted landing pages and webinars — all AI-drafted and hosted on your space. Open 🎯 Funnels from Quick actions, then hit ✨ New funnel.
"What are you building?"
Every funnel starts with one clear choice of four. Pick one and the editor shows only that type's fields:
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Opt-in page
Collect emails with a free lead magnet or sign-up — best for building your list.
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Sales page
A persuasion page with your offer and price that sends visitors straight to your checkout or join link.
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Live webinar
You host it live at a set date & time via a meeting link. Registrants get the link only when you open the room.
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Automated webinar
A pre-recorded video that replays on a schedule for everyone who registers.
When an automated webinar runs
Under "When does it run?" you choose:
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Just-in-time
A session starts right after each person registers — they join the one already in progress (or the next), so it feels near-immediate.
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Same time, on repeat (weekly)
Sessions run at a fixed weekly time you set.
⚙️ Advanced options
The deeper controls — join window, offering a replay, how the session is framed (honest replay vs. present-as-live), chat, and timed offers on the video — are tucked behind an Advanced options expander so the basics stay simple.
🕒 Timezones handled for you
Session times display in each viewer's own local timezone, with a timezone label, so nobody has to do the math. Reminder emails show the webinar's timezone.
Chapter 9
Publish & go live
When your space feels ready, subscribe to publish. That flips your draft into a live website and unlocks inviting members and taking payments.
1
Hit Publish in the Studio
Tap the bright Publish & go live button at the top of Quick actions. It's $97/month — 0% fees on your memberships, cancel anytime.
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You're live at sukulu.app/your-handle
Your public page goes live and starts appearing on Google. Share the link everywhere — it's your front door.
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Invite & grow
Invite your first members, post a welcome, host your welcome session, and turn on referrals to reward members for bringing friends.
✅ You're launched
Courses drafted and published, community set up with a logo, pricing live, and your page public. From here it's all momentum — post consistently, run a webinar, and let referrals compound.
Chapter 10
Launch checklist
Tick these off — the bar at the top fills as you go.
Chapter 11
Common questions
Where did all the Studio buttons go?›
They're all one tap away in the Quick actions panel on your Studio home — View Live Page / Test drive, Cover Page, Bio page, Events & classes, Students CRM, Invite Members, Go CampFire, Engagement, Funnels, Refer & grow, Invite creators (earn 40%), Financial Settings, and Re-render. A few sit in the top bar: ➕ Community, 📖 Guide, 🗑️ Delete, and 🚪 Sign out. (The old ⚙️ Admin Menu dropdown is gone — nothing is buried anymore.)
Can I run a live class inside Sukulu?›
Yes. In Events & classes you can schedule live sessions and choose Host in Sukulu — a built-in video room where you're the moderator and students join from their confirmation email, no Zoom account needed. Or paste your own Zoom/Meet/Teams link. Classes can be free, free for members, or paid tickets through your Stripe.
Does Sukulu take a cut of my membership revenue?›
No. Sukulu charges 0% platform fees on memberships. Members pay through your own connected Stripe account, so you keep 100% minus Stripe's standard processing fee. Your only Sukulu cost is the flat $97/month.
Can I try it before paying?›
Yes. You build your entire space for free — courses, community, pricing setup, previews — and only subscribe ($97/mo) when you're ready to publish and go live.
Can I move my members from Skool or another platform?›
Yes. From the Members area you can invite people by email to join free, and there's an "Import from Skool" flow to bring paying members over onto your own Stripe.
Where do my videos live?›
Host them as unlisted YouTube or Vimeo videos and paste the link into a lesson. Sukulu plays them privately inside the gated lesson so only members can watch.
Do I really get a website, or just a page?›
A real, indexable public page at sukulu.app/your-handle — the front door to your courses and community. It's built to rank on Google and is yours to share.
Why didn't my Studio open when I signed in?›
Sign in from sukulu.app to land in your Studio. Signing in on localpilot.pro opens the classic business dashboard instead. (Platform admins always land on the main dashboard.)
Ready to launch your space?
Describe your idea and let AI draft your courses, community, and website in about a minute.
