We Built the Platform We Wished Existed

After 15 years of helping online educators build their businesses, we kept seeing the same problem. Great courses, great teachers, terrible platforms.

We spent over a decade building software for online course creators and educators through OptimizePress. In that time, we worked with thousands of creators, coaches, consultants, course builders, and community leaders, and watched the same pattern repeat itself.

They would launch with enthusiasm, piece together a stack of five or six tools, spend a small fortune every month just keeping things running, and then hand over a percentage of every sale on top of that.

The tech became the job. Zapier broke. Integrations failed. Support tickets went unanswered for days. And every time they wanted to add a new product or launch something new, it meant another tool, another subscription, another thing to manage.

The all-in-one platforms that were supposed to solve this just created a different problem, bloated, expensive, and built for enterprise teams, not the solo creator trying to run a lean, profitable education business.

Between us, we have spent over 15 years in this space, building tools, running courses, and working alongside creators at every stage of their journey. That background gave us a clear picture of what was broken and what a better solution needed to look like.

Not another bloated all-in-one. Not a stripped-back tool that forces you to patch in five others. Something genuinely complete, genuinely affordable, and built with one priority above everything else: helping creators keep more of what they earn.

That meant one thing was non-negotiable from day one: zero transaction fees. We will never take a cut of your revenue. You built your audience, you made the sale. That money is yours.

Kourses combines online courses, private communities, digital product delivery, and conversion-optimised checkout in a single platform. Everything works together out of the box, no Zapier, no integrations to break, no developer required.

Order bumps, one-click upsells, abandoned cart recovery, native CRM integrations, the tools that actually move revenue are built in on every plan, not locked behind higher tiers.

We were deliberate about what we left out. Kourses is not trying to be everything to everyone; it is built specifically for coaches, creators, and online educators who want a clean, complete platform that gets out of the way and lets them focus on their content and their customers.

We are James and Ian, the two people behind Kourses. Between us, we bring product design, software development, and business experience, as well as over 15 years of working directly in the online education space.

When you reach out, you are talking to us. When you share feedback, it shapes what we build next. That is not something the larger platforms can offer—and we intend to keep it as we grow.

Got a question? Feel free to chat with us anytime here.

James Dyson & Ian Bass, Co-founders, Kourses

With Kourses, you simplify your tech stack and can focus your time on creating content and delivering value to your customers.