Jay Clouse

Jay Clouse graduated from Ohio State University with a BS in business administration and marketing, co-founded the events marketplace Tixers, and built Unreal Collective — his first online creator community — which he later sold to Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income platform. From 2019 to 2021, he led community experience at Smart Passive Income, designing its paid membership and cohort-based course programs before…

Jay Clouse graduated from Ohio State University with a BS in business administration and marketing, co-founded the events marketplace Tixers, and built Unreal Collective — his first online creator community — which he later sold to Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income platform. From 2019 to 2021, he led community experience at Smart Passive Income, designing its paid membership and cohort-based course programs before going full-time on Creator Science. He's been a full-time creator since 2017, has earned $2.8 million since then, and was named Content Entrepreneur of the Year by The Tilt in 2023. He's also an angel investor in 10+ startups including Kit, RightMessage, Maven, Carry, Kick, and Gumroad, with his audience co-investing through the Creator Science Syndicate.The Creator Science course catalog at courses.creatorscience.com currently includes five standalone courses: Build A Beloved Membership ($399), which covers the full arc of conceptualising, launching, and growing a paid membership community; Podcast Like The Pros ($399), covering high-quality podcast production on a small team or budget; Newsletter Masterclass ($199), focused on writing an email newsletter that is core to a creator's business; Podcast Like A YouTuber ($199), teaching the strategy Jay used to attract 105,000 subscribers and 5 million YouTube views; and the Signature Product Bootcamp ($399), recordings from a four-week live course on developing a signature sellable product. CreatorHQ, his all-in-one Notion workspace for creators, is available for $297. All of these products are included in The Lab, Jay's application-only membership community capped at 200 members, which generates approximately $500,000 per year and contributed over 50% of Creator Science's $830,000 in 2024 revenue.Build A Beloved Membership has 0 verified reviews on AllPros. The broader Creator Science ecosystem has a strong independent reputation: Jay is a documented Circle Expert, has conducted masterclasses for Circle's platform, was personally asked by Ali Abdaal to coach him through building Productivity Lab (a session Abdaal aired publicly on his YouTube channel), and has featured on Niche Pursuits, Grow The Show, and dozens of other podcasts as a guest. The one consistent note across third-party coverage is that Jay's approach to community is deliberately small, application-based, and depth-focused — anti-growth by design. Students expecting a scalable community-building playbook for mass audiences will find his model deliberately counter to that orientation.AllPros collects verified, course-specific student reviews independently. With a catalog of five standalone courses, a 200-member high-ticket membership, and $2.8M in documented creator revenue since 2017, there's a large student base capable of generating meaningful review data. If you've taken Build A Beloved Membership, Podcast Like The Pros, Newsletter Masterclass, or any other Creator Science course, your review is the first independent data point on this page.