Kaido LMS · Self-hosted WordPress · By Academic Method

Stop renting your school. Own it.

Everything the big LMS platforms do — that you own outright with no monthly fee — plus web apps inside lessons, AI that coaches and remembers, and a tutor that only speaks your course.

One payment for the platform you own. One honest subscription for the intelligence that keeps it current. No per-student tax, ever.

Founder cohort — 1,000 places · Core from £149 (£349 after) · Kaido AI £99/yr, price-locked for life · Complete from £199
yourschool.com/lesson/openings
Lesson 5.1 · The Cold Open
Welcome back, Sarah — last time you rebuilt your module map.
Interactive: Opening Scorer Auto-marked quiz Certificate track
The Journeybook primer — the page knows the student’s history
Course Tutor · Grounded
Does the cold open work for a beginner course?
Yes — with one caveat covered in this module. Start inside the problem, not the syllabus. [1] Lesson 5.1 · [2] Workbook p.4
Answers only from your material — with citations
The Problem

You’re paying rent on your own school.

Hosted platforms take a monthly cut forever. WordPress LMS plugins sell you the basics, then sell you every feature again as an annual add-on. Both call it normal. It isn’t.

Hosted platforms · Kajabi & friends
$150+every month, forever

Plus transaction fees, per-student tiers, and a platform that owns your student relationships. Stop paying, lose the school.

Plugin stacks · LearnDash + add-ons
$500+every year, forever

The LMS is the cheap part. Gradebook, certificates, storefront, design — each one another licence renewing annually.

Kaido LMS
£349 £149once — founder price, the platform forever

Theme, LMS, storefront, payments and web apps — owned outright, lifetime updates included. Add the intelligence layer for £99/yr, price-locked for life as a founder — or take both: Kaido Complete, £199 as a founder.

The Three Things Nobody Else Has

Shipped. Working. Verified live.

The WordPress LMS market competes on the same commodity basics. These three are live on a real site today — not a roadmap.

01

Interactive web apps, inside lessons.

Build, host and embed self-contained interactive apps — calculators, rubrics, flashcards, self-assessments — on your own domain, sitting right inside the lesson page. Twelve templates included.

And the part that feels like a trick: describe the interactive in a sentence, and the App Generator writes it. “A slider that scores my students’ course openings” — done.

12 templates included · The App Generator · Your domain, not ours
wp-admin · Cognition LMS → Apps
The App Generator
A self-assessment where students rate their course opening on hook, promise and pace — with a score out of 30.
App generated — Opening Scorer. Three sliders, live total, feedback bands. Embedded in Lesson 5.1. Edit · Preview · Unembed
Generate12 templatesLives in the lesson
Describe it in a sentence — the suite writes the app
02

Kaido Journeybook™ — AI that remembers.

The Journeybook keeps every student’s whole journey — every piece of work, every quiz attempt. Everything that happens afterwards reads it: feedback says “you’ve improved since module 2”, quiz coaching names the pattern behind repeated misses, lessons open with a personal “welcome back” primer, and the course ends with an AI-written review of the student’s whole journey.

No LMS at any price does this.

The course remembers · Pedagogy-shaped, not a chatbot gimmick
yourschool.com/journeybook/sarah
Journeybook · Sarah M · The whole journey
M02Cut list submitted — feedback: strong instincts, thin evidence
M04Module map — reversal placed late; coached
M05Quiz 82% — pacing questions missed twice: pattern flagged
M07Workshop feedback: “your structure has improved since module 2 — the evidence problem is gone”
Everything that happens next has read everything before it
03

A tutor that can’t make things up.

The Course Tutor answers only from your course — the lessons and pages you publish. It cites its sources with numbered references — and refuses everything else. Ask it about your course, it teaches. Ask it anything outside your material, it declines.

It’s the answer to every educator’s AI fear: it cannot hallucinate beyond your material.

Grounded · Cited · Refuses off-material questions
yourschool.com — Course Tutor
What does the scene test ask?
One question: what does this lesson owe the course? If nothing — it goes on the cut list. [1] Module 2, Lesson 2.1 · [2] Workbook: The Cut List
Who won the World Cup?
That’s outside this course’s material, so I won’t guess — ask me anything from the modules and I’ll answer with sources.
The refusal is the feature
The Parity Floor

Everything you’d expect. In the box.

So nobody can dismiss it: the commodity basics the big plugins charge annual licences for, included once.

Teach

Full course engine

Courses → modules → lessons with sequential gating, progress, student accounts and dashboards.

Assess

Quizzes that mark themselves

Four question types, pass marks, attempt limits, random pools — plus short answers marked against your model answer with partial credit and a Journeybook-aware coaching note.

Certify

Gradebook & certificates

Marked where students can’t peek at the answers. CSV export, PDF certificates.

Sell

Storefront & Stripe

Courses, digital downloads, subscriptions and licence keys with a real multi-item cart — purchase to auto-enrolment, verified end-to-end.

Design

The cinematic theme

Block theme + 20-pattern library + one-click style packs — and the Design Assistant: describe a change in plain English, watch the page follow.

Support

Its own AI support engineer

A full operator manual, a live setup checklist, and a Claude support skill shipped in the box — paste it into free Claude and get an expert installer.

The Back Office

wp-admin, but it looks like someone cared.

One plugin bundle, one menu. Courses, store, design and AI run from a back office designed like the front of house.

wp-admin · Cognition LMS → Design
Design Hub
HomeCustom CSS · AI assistant · kit ↓
CourseCustom CSS · AI assistant · kit ↓
Pricing— · AI assistant · kit ↓
Make the hero headline bigger and give the buy button more presence.
Change drafted — review it, then save to the page. Improve · Publish
The Design Assistant — plain English in, the page follows
wp-admin · Cognition LMS → Gradebook
Gradebook · CCM Cohort
Sarah MQuiz 82% · Workshop marked · Certificate pending
Daniel RQuiz 91% · Workshop marked · Certified ✓
Amara OQuiz 74% · Coaching note sent · Retake open
Export CSVSetup checklist: 9/9Stripe: live
Marked on your server — answers stay out of reach
How It Works

Three steps to open.

Built to sell to non-technical operators and advanced users alike — one-click done-for-you, full control underneath.

01

Install

Upload the bundle to any WordPress site. The setup checklist walks payments and pages until everything’s green — and keeps itself healthy on update.

02

Connect your AI key

Bring your own key from the AI provider. You pay them at cost — we never sit between you and the meter.

03

Build and sell

Pick a style pack, import a starter site, publish your course, and take the first payment — purchase to enrolment runs itself.

The Offer · Founder Pricing

Own the platform. Add the intelligence.

The platform is yours forever for one payment. The intelligence layer renews yearly — because the AI world changes monthly, and that’s what keeps yours current. One founder cohort of 1,000 places at launch — the ladder below is the whole deal, published in full, and it only goes up.

Kaido Core
£349 £149one-time · founder price · lifetime updates
The whole school, owned outright.
  • Full LMS — courses, quizzes, certificates, gradebook
  • The cinematic theme — style packs, 20 patterns, starter sites
  • Storefront + Stripe — cart, downloads, subscriptions, licence keys
  • Web apps in lessons — 12 templates, on your domain
  • Email & events — purchase to enrolment, running itself
  • Lifetime updates — included. There is no renewal.
Get Kaido Core — £149
Regular £349 · Docs + community included
Kaido AI
£179 £99per year · founder price — locked for life · priority support included
The layer no other LMS has.
  • Kaido Journeybook™ — your course remembers every student
  • Feedback & marking — on the work they actually did, with coaching notes
  • The Course Tutor — answers from your course, cites its sources
  • The App Generator — describe the interactive, it’s built
  • The Design Assistant — plain-English design changes on any page
  • Your key, your budget, counted — the cost dashboard
Add Kaido AI — £99/yr
Founder £99/yr is locked for the life of your subscription — regular £179/yr · If it lapses, everything keeps working — updates stop. No hostages.
Kaido Complete
£499 £199founder price · Core + first year of Kaido AI
Everything, on day one.
  • Kaido Core — yours permanently, lifetime updates
  • First year of Kaido AI — the full intelligence layer, included
  • Priority support — included via Kaido AI
  • Founder renewal — your AI year renews at the locked founder rate
Get Kaido Complete — £199
Regular £499 · The £50 step from Core buys a £99 year of AI
The Founder Ladder

One shared cohort — 1,000 places across Kaido Core and Kaido Complete, stepping together at the same boundaries. Every tranche is published from day one; when the cohort is gone, regular pricing stands. Founder Kaido AI is £99/yr at every rung, price-locked for the life of the subscription.

TranchePlacesKaido CoreKaido Complete
Founder I launch tranche100£349 £149£499 £199
Founder II200£349 £179£499 £249
Founder III300£349 £199£499 £299
Founder IV400£349 £249£499 £349
Regular£349£499
Need it bespoke? Custom knowledge bases, custom apps, done-for-you builds — by conversation
Before You Ask

The honest answers.

Built by a former Dean who designs curricula for a living — the AI is pedagogy-shaped, and so is the honesty.

Is there really no subscription?

For the platform — really. Kaido Core is one payment (£149 as a founder, £349 regular), with lifetime updates and no renewal, ever. The intelligence layer is a yearly subscription (£99 as a founder — locked for life — £179 regular), priced honestly: the AI world changes monthly, and that’s what keeps yours current. Your AI usage itself runs on your own key, billed by the provider at cost — we never mark it up or sit between you and the meter.

What do I need to run it?

Any ordinary WordPress host and a Stripe account. No WooCommerce, no page builder, no add-on stack — the bundle is self-contained by design.

I’m not technical. Honestly, can I do this?

The suite ships with a live setup checklist that tracks payments and pages until everything’s green, a full operator manual, and a Claude support skill — paste it into free Claude and you have an expert installer on call. One-click style packs and starter sites handle the design.

Can the AI tutor say something wrong to my students?

The tutor answers only from your course material, cites its sources with numbered references, and refuses anything outside them. The refusal isn’t a limitation — it’s the feature. Your course is the whole universe it speaks from.

What about updates?

Core updates are lifetime and included — no renewal to keep what you bought working. Kaido AI updates are included while the subscription is active; if it lapses, every feature keeps working at the version you have. Updates stop, nothing breaks, nobody’s held hostage.

Do you use it yourselves?

Our own school runs on the exact bundle we sell — same theme, same LMS, same Journeybook, tutor and checkout, verified end-to-end on a live site. The demo isn’t a demo; it’s the shop floor.

The Last Platform Fee You’ll Ever Pay Is No Platform Fee

Your school. Your server. Your rules.

Stop renting the thing your business stands on. Own the platform from £149 as a founder — one payment, and every student after that is pure margin.