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AI SEO Rainmakers vs AI Profit Boardroom: $269 vs $59, Two Different Buyers

By AISEORainmaker.com Editorial TeamPublished 7 Sep 2026Paid member since 2 Sep 2026

Affiliate disclosure: we paid $269 for our own seat and earn a commission if you join through our links. That does not change the price you pay.

First, the confusion. Google mixes these two up. A 6 September 2026 US search for "ai profit boardroom" returned Julian Goldie's own site, and searches for AI SEO Rainmakers sometimes surface Goldie's network too. The reason is simple: Goldie is a testimonial on the Rainmakers sales page at seo.stream and on its Skool page, where he calls Charles Floate "GOATED in SEO". They are friendly. They sell to different people. Charles Floate charges $269 a month for an advanced AI SEO operator group. Julian Goldie charges $59 a month for a broad AI-business community with 3.5k members. We pay for Rainmakers. We have not paid for Boardroom, so every Boardroom fact here comes from its public Skool about page and from Goldie's own published material, checked 6 September 2026.

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Side by side, checked 6 Sep 2026

Sources: Rainmakers Skool about page, AI Profit Boardroom Skool about page, the seo.stream sales page, and the Rainmakers member area, which we have been inside since 2 September 2026. Our full AI SEO Rainmakers review has the measured video minutes and the course list.

Why Google confuses them

Three things overlap. Both communities live on Skool. Both owners are SEOs who talk about AI. And Julian Goldie's name sits on the Rainmakers sales page as social proof, so any crawler that reads seo.stream sees "Julian Goldie" next to "AI SEO Rainmakers". Goldie also runs a second group called AI SEO Success Lab, and aiprofitboardroom.com is his own site inside a 5-domain network. Put together, a query like "julian goldie vs charles floate" or "charles floate or julian goldie" pulls in both brands.

Clear it up like this. Charles Floate owns AI SEO Rainmakers (Skool handle charles-floate-8318). Julian Goldie owns AI Profit Boardroom. Goldie is a customer-side voice for Charles, quoted in the testimonial strip, and the two are on good terms. If you want Goldie's product, search for "ai profit boardroom" and go to his Skool page. If you want Charles's, the Rainmakers Skool page on this site explains how to get in.

Price: $269 rising vs $59 on sale

AI Profit Boardroom's Skool page shows $59 a month, presented as a flash sale down from $71, as of 6 Sep 2026. We do not know how long the sale runs or whether $71 returns, so check the Skool page before you rely on $59.

AI SEO Rainmakers uses a ladder. Founding members paid $179 and those 100 seats sold in 7 hours on 10 August 2026. The rate then rose $10 for every 25 members: $199, $209, on up to $259 for members 101 to 275. Members 276 to 300 pay $269, the live rate with 314 members counted on 6 Sep 2026. The next step is $279. The rate you join at locks for as long as you stay, and Charles says it never comes back down. No coupon or promo code has ever existed. Full breakdown on our pricing page.

The gap today is $210 a month, or $2,520 a year. If Rainmakers reaches 400 members the newcomer rate is $309, and the gap becomes $250 a month. For a beginner, that difference buys a lot of trial and error inside Boardroom before anything is at stake.

Members, reviews and refunds

Boardroom is the bigger room by a factor of eleven: 3.5k members against 314. Its rating is 4.9 from 63 reviews. Rainmakers is 5.0 from 31 reviews, all of them from members 11 to 21 days in, because the community is four weeks old. Boardroom's review base is twice as large and, given its size, has had longer to collect the four-star reviews that pull an average below 5.0. Neither number tells you much about month six.

On refunds, both offer 7 days. Rainmakers is 7-day 100% money back, no questions, and you keep the downloads; the Skool page condition is that you DM Charles before reaching level 3, which is a Skool engagement level earned by posting and likes. Boardroom lists a 7-day refund plus a 30-day ROI guarantee. We have not tested the ROI guarantee and do not know its conditions, so read them on the Skool page. On paper Boardroom's terms are the more generous of the two.

Who runs each one, and their public record

Charles Floate is a British SEO consultant based in Koh Samui, Thailand. He started SEO at 12, was kicked out of school at 15 over hacking, was SEO Engineer at Foster SEO at 16 and Head of SEO at SUSO Digital in London at 17. Google penalised him personally in 2013 and again in 2016 for teaching black hat in public, which earned him the nickname "The God of SEO". He has trained 20,000+ SEOs through 25+ courses, ran a consulting desk at $800k a year by 27, and as CMO took PressWhizz from $60k to $750k a month before stepping back in July 2026. His current rates are $799 for a 15-minute call and $2,499 for an hour. His X account, @Charles_SEO, has 97.2K followers and dates to February 2013. Bio at charles.info and on our Charles Floate page.

Julian Goldie runs AI Profit Boardroom and AI SEO Success Lab, and owns aiprofitboardroom.com as part of a 5-domain network. We have not paid for his community and we have not audited his record the way we have Charles's. What we can say from the public record is that his Boardroom group has 3.5k members and a 4.9 rating from 63 reviews on Skool, and that he chose to put his name on Charles's sales page as a testimonial. An SEO who endorses another SEO's advanced group is, in effect, telling you where his own group ends.

Focus and teaching style

AI SEO Rainmakers

Built for people who already rank things. The classroom has 10 courses and 70 modules, gated by Skool level; on our first day most were locked and by day 3 seven of ten were open. The Foundations course is 9 lessons and 38 minutes of video with a tracking sheet and a 7-day plan. Tools and Repos has 12 lessons and four downloadable repos (parasite-builder, build-agent, mini-brain, and a monthly Operator roadmap through December 2026). Learn Vibe Coding for AI SEO is 13 lessons and 49 minutes and expects you to open a terminal. CharlesGPT 3.1 ships as a custom GPT. On 5 September Charles dropped 100+ AI SEO skill files into the community. Black and gray hat plays sit in the open: parasite SEO, a Dark Library, live site teardowns.

The weekly call is the product for many members. Wednesdays at 6pm Thailand time (UTC+7), recorded, and Charles stays until every question is answered. The three recordings we watched ran 3h57m combined. Total classroom video we measured is 6h37m across 27 lessons, and about 60% of that is call recordings. The curriculum page lists every course with its lesson count.

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AI Profit Boardroom

Built for people starting out. The Skool page positions it as a broad AI-business community rather than an SEO group, with a large member base to compare notes with. It is not SEO-specific. We cannot confirm course counts, video hours or call schedule because we are not members, and we will not guess. If those details matter to your decision, read the Skool about page and ask in its feed before you pay, or use the 7-day window to look inside.

What we can say is where the two do not overlap. Boardroom does not teach parasite SEO and does not ship code repos. Rainmakers does both, from a founder Google has penalised twice for publishing the techniques he uses. If that sentence reads as a warning, Boardroom is your group. If it reads as a feature, Rainmakers is.

What you get for the money

At $59 Boardroom is priced like a starter community, and 3.5k members suggests it sells as one. At $269 Rainmakers is the most expensive AI SEO group on Skool we have found, ahead of AI SEO Mastery Pro at $217 and far ahead of The New Search at $59 and AI Ranking at $27. Charles's own value stack on seo.stream claims $16,474 a month of value; treat that as the seller's framing. What we measured is 6h37m of video, four repos, a weekly call that runs long, and a feed that passed 540 posts in three weeks.

Our sister review scored Rainmakers 4.8 out of 5, with Value for Money at 3.5 and Beginner Friendliness at 2.8. That last number is the point of this comparison. A beginner in Rainmakers pays $269 to be lost. A beginner in Boardroom pays $59 to be among 3.5k other beginners and small operators.

Who each group suits

For the cheaper SEO-specific groups, see our best AI SEO Skool communities list and the alternatives page. We also compare Rainmakers head to head with the closest-priced rival in Rainmakers vs AI SEO Mastery Pro.

Our pick, with the honest caveat

We chose Rainmakers because we do SEO for a living and wanted the advanced material. The weekly call with direct answers and the pace of new drops (100+ skill files on 5 September) are the reasons, and we would pay the $269 again.

The caveat is that this is one group seen from inside and one seen from the door. We pay for Rainmakers. We have not paid for AI Profit Boardroom, so we rely on its Skool about page and on Goldie's own published material, and we have not sat in its calls or opened its classroom. If Boardroom's inside is better than its page suggests, we would not know. Read this as a report on Rainmakers with Boardroom's public facts beside it.

The second caveat is fit. Rainmakers is brand new, expensive, rising in price, and leans black and gray hat. For a beginner or a compliance-heavy team, $59 in Boardroom is the better first purchase. An AI SEO Rainmaker seat makes sense once you have something to rank and a reason to want it cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity.