Who has paid, and who is still in a trial?
The Skill sorts every member into paid at least once, still inside an unbilled trial, or cancelled before a single charge. That one split is the difference between my 76% and my 35%.
What the Skill does
Three questions your dashboard will not answer
Most membership platforms tell you how many members are active. That is not the same as how many have paid, and the gap is widest right after a launch, which is exactly when you are deciding what to do next.
How did each launch really do?
Every launch or signup window becomes its own cohort, with how many trialed, how many converted, and how many are still paying today, laid side by side so you can see which push brought in members who stayed.
Which records do not add up?
It flags the rows that contradict themselves, like a member marked as never paid who has revenue attached. When I ran this on my own data, it moved real money out of the wrong column.
Why I built this
I celebrated a number that was not real
Right after the free trial for my August event closed, I pulled my numbers and it looked like 76% of trial members had converted, tied with my best event ever. Then I looked closer. Twenty-eight of those members were still inside a trial that had not billed yet, and every one of them cancelled before they were ever charged. The real conversion rate was 35%, my lowest of the year.
76%What my dashboard said
35%What had been paid
How it works
One export, one conversation
You do not need a new tool or a data person. You need the member list you already have and about fifteen minutes.
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Export your member listDownload a CSV from wherever your members live: your community platform, your course platform, or your payment processor. If it has names, join dates, and payment or status information, it will work.
02
Hand it to the SkillInstall the Skill in Claude or ChatGPT, upload the file, and tell it when your trials or launches ran. It asks before it assumes anything about your columns.
03
Read your real numbersYou get a one-page readout: paid versus still in trial, trial-to-paid conversion for each launch, how many from each are still paying, and every record that needs a second look.
04
Decide what to fixThe readout ends with what the numbers point to, so you know whether your next move is more trials, a better trial, or holding on to the members you already won.
Who built this
Active is not the same as paid, and I learned that the expensive way.
I am Monica Froese, and I run Empowered Business™ and the Empowered Business Society®, an implementation community where members build real AI systems together every month. Most of my new members come in through a free live event and a 7-day trial, which means the moment I most want to know how a launch went is the moment my numbers are least reliable.
So I stopped trusting the active count and started keeping a member ledger instead: every trial, every payment, every cancellation. This Skill is that method, packaged so you can run it on your own export without building the ledger first.
60,000+students taught
$8M+in digital product revenue
20,000+newsletter readers
Monica
Before you enter your email
The questions I would ask
Do I need to be good with spreadsheets?
No. If you can download a CSV from your platform, you can run this. The Skill reads the file, asks you what any unclear columns mean, and does the math. You never write a formula.
Which AI tool does it run in?
It is an AI Skill, so it installs in Claude or ChatGPT. The setup steps that arrive with it walk you through both.
Does my member data go anywhere?
It stays in your own AI account. You upload the file to your own Claude or ChatGPT conversation, and I never see it. If your platform export includes details you would rather not share with an AI tool at all, remove those columns first. The Skill only needs names or IDs, dates, and payment or status information.
What if I do not run free trials?
It still works. Without a trial, the Skill treats each signup month or launch as a cohort and shows how many from each are still paying, along with any records that do not add up.
What happens after I enter my email?
The Skill and the setup steps arrive by email within a few minutes. Over the following week I send a couple more emails about what to do with the numbers once you have them. You can unsubscribe from any of them.
Who should skip this?
If you do not have paying members yet, there is nothing for it to measure. Come back once your first launch has closed.
