The AI Firehose Podcast
← All episodes
Episode 23 · June 12, 2026 · 11:21

AI Profit Boardroom Wins Best AI Community Award!

3 Awards, 1 Winner: Inside the World’s Best AI Community

Discover why three independent organizations ranked the AI Profit Boardroom as the #1 AI community for business owners and builders. Learn how to move from passive consumption to building real workflows with daily tutorials, live coaching, and a network of 3,400+ members.

00:00 - Winning 3 Major AI Awards
01:14 - Fat Rank's Exhaustive Review
03:07 - 8 Criteria for AI Innovation
03:32 - The Hermes Agent Panel Verdict
04:50 - Cutting Through the AI Noise
07:07 - The Agent Operating System
10:30 - Turning Information into Action

Full transcript

The AI Profit Boardroom wins Best AI Community Award. And I don't mean once. Three completely separate organizations tested 27 AI communities. Three different sets of criteria.

Three different judges. All three picked the same winner. The AI Profit Boardroom. FatRank went first.

James Dooley runs one of the most respected review sites in the UK. His team spent real time inside 27 communities testing what members actually get, how active the founders are, and whether the strategies inside still work by the time you read them. Their conclusion, the AI Profit Boardroom ranked number one. Their exact words were that Julian Goldie is testing new tools the day they drop, and building workflows that other people will be charging for six months later.

Then autoblogging.ai picked it up. They ran their own evaluation, looking at innovation impact, member results, engagement, and educational quality across a weighted set of eight criteria. The AI Profit Boardroom scored at the top across all eight. And then on June 12th, 2026, the Hermes agent panel published their verdict.

The Hermes panel is known for being brutally practical. They don't care about follower counts or launch hype. They care about one thing. Does this community help people move from watching AI content to actually building with AI?

Their award went to the AI Profit Boardroom. They said it specifically because it helps members go from passive consumption to real workflows. Research, content, automation, lead generation, client work. Three independent sources.

Same answer. That's worth understanding because it tells you something about what's actually happening in the AI space right now, and why communities like this one are pulling further ahead of everything else. It's the thing most people miss about AI right now. The tools are moving faster than anyone's ability to learn them alone.

A new model drops. Half the internet posts a take about it. By the time most people have read the takes, the next one has already dropped. And none of those takes tell you what to actually do with it.

This is the exact problem the AI Profit Boardroom was built to solve. And the fact that three separate evaluators all came to the same conclusion shows it's actually solving it. Let me walk you through what each award was based on, because the specifics matter. FatRank's process was the most exhaustive.

James Dooley's team didn't just look at the sales page. They got inside the communities. They tested the content. They watched how founders showed up.

They're three warning signs for a community worth avoiding. The founder posts once a fortnight, the content is recycled from months ago, and members just talk without sharing anything that actually works. The AI Profit Boardroom failed all three warning signs in the right direction. The content updates in real time.

The strategies inside reflect what's working this week. And members share real results, real screenshots, real workflows they've deployed. FatRank gave the top ranking to the AI Profit Boardroom over 26 other communities, including Authority Hacker AI Accelerator, which starts at around $99 a month and offers roughly 50 live calls a year. And first movers are in DAI Labs at $225 to $250 a month, which offers weekly co-working sessions and pre-built bots.

The AI Profit Boardroom came in at $59 a month with five live coaching calls every single week. FatRank ran that comparison, and the value gap was significant enough to put AIPB at number one without much debate. The autoblogging.ai evaluation looked at eight criteria, innovation impact, member ROI, engagement rate, educational quality, support infrastructure, technical depth, community culture, and ethics compliance. The AI Profit Boardroom scored top marks across all eight.

The ethics compliance piece is worth noting specifically, autoblogging.ai was checking whether communities stay clean when AI tools increasingly make it easy to cut corners. AIPB passed. And then the Hermes agent panel. Their framework is the most interesting to me because it maps directly to what actually makes a community worth being in.

They scored communities on clear audience and promise, useful onboarding, active participation, actionable education, instead of vague hype, repeatable workflows and templates, whether members can get unstuck fast, and whether the structure pushes people toward implementation. Their specific language in the write-up said the AI Profit Boardroom stood out for three reasons. It's specific. It's not a generic AI chat room.

It's built around using AI to run and grow a business. That clarity means members know exactly why they're there and what to bring to the table. Second, the momentum is real. At the time of review, 3,500 members, active daily participation, and a paid model that filters for people who are serious.

The Hermes panel pointed out that community quality depends on repeated participation, not launch day numbers. AIPB had both. Third, it connects education to action. Members don't just learn what's new, they learn what to build next.

The panel specifically noted that the best AI communities help people decide which workflow to run, how to improve it, and when to stop chasing the next tool. That last point is the one that actually moves the needle for people running businesses. If you've spent any time in the AI space this year, you know the noise problem. New tools, new models, new frameworks, new opinions.

Every platform is full of people telling you what dropped this week. Almost none of it comes with a clear answer to, so what do I actually do with this? Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, when a new tool drops, the conversation isn't just, look at this, it's, here's how we tested it, here's what it's actually good for, here's the workflow we built with it, and here's whether it's worth your time. That's the difference between a community and a news feed.

The Hermes panel called this compressing the decision loop, and that's exactly what it is. Instead of spending hours figuring out if something is worth building with, you get the answer from people who already ran the experiment. Right now, inside the AI Profit Boardroom, there are 3,400 business owners actively using AI automation. There are four live coaching calls every week, there are step-by-step tutorials going up daily, there are 30-day roadmaps built around specific tools and use cases, so if you want to know how to actually implement what these three award panels are talking about, you've got a structured path to do it.

The coaching calls aren't general AI discussions, they're specific. You can bring your actual setup, your actual workflow, your actual questions about how to use the boardroom's resources for your business. That's the kind of access that shows up daily, not in a pre-recorded course filmed once and sold for two years. If you want to be in the community that just won every major AI award in 2026, with coaching calls specifically designed to walk you through building with the tools these evaluators tested, daily tutorials on how to apply this to your business, and 2,800 members, you can ask questions to 24x7, link is in the description, or go to AIProfitBoardroom.com.

Now let me get into what the awards actually mean for you. The Hermes panel's write-up made a point that I think is the most important thing to understand about where AI is heading in 2026. They wrote, AI tools are becoming easier to access but harder to prioritize. That's the real problem now.

It's not access, everyone has access. The problem is figuring out which tools are worth your time, which workflows are worth building, and which results are actually real versus marketing copy. A year ago, the challenge was learning how to use AI at all. Now the challenge is using it well, consistently, inside a real business operation.

The gap between people who figured that out and people who haven't is getting wider every month. The communities that won these awards aren't the ones with the most members. They're the ones that help members move fastest, from I know about this tool to I've deployed this workflow and it's running. That distinction is everything.

The agent operating system is a good example of what this looks like in practice. It's a full setup that comes with AI Profit Boardroom membership, combining Hermes agent, Claude, Obsidian memory, and voice layers into a single local dashboard. You're not building that from scratch by watching YouTube tutorials. You get it as part of what you join.

The Hermes panel specifically cited implementation focused tools like this as a key reason the boardroom won. The member results documented inside the boardroom reflect this too. The boardroom tracks retention at 89%, meaning once people join, they stay. That number tells you more than any testimonial.

People don't keep paying for something that doesn't work. They stay because the strategies they're getting are current, the coaching is live, and the workflows they're building are actually running. The fat rank review put it simply, Julian shows up every single day. That's the thing that makes a community different from a course.

A course is filmed once. A community is alive every day. There's new content every week. There are live calls every time a model drops or a tool updates.

There's a conversation about what it means and what to build with it. When the Hermes agent panel published their award on June 12th, 2026, they closed with this. The best AI community isn't about size. It's about whether members make better decisions, build repeatable systems, and turn new AI capability into applied work.

That sentence is a clean summary of what separates the communities that actually move people forward from the ones that just sell access. The AI profit boardroom won because it does the second thing, not just the first. Three separate judges, three different frameworks, three different audiences. Fat rank coming from a business and SEO angle.

Autoblogging.ai from a content and quality angle. Hermes from a pure implementation angle. All three ran the same test and got the same answer. What does that tell you?

It tells you the value is real enough to hold up under multiple different lenses. Communities that win one award can get lucky. Communities that win three from sources with different criteria have built something that actually works. The practical question is what this means for you.

If you're someone who's using AI in your business right now, or trying to, the noise problem is real. There are hundreds of tools, dozens of frameworks, and opinions flying everywhere. The communities that help you cut through that are worth more than the ones that add to it. The AI profit boardroom's 30-day roadmaps are built around exactly this.

Instead of trying to figure out which tools to prioritize, you get a structured path, step-by-step, tool-by-tool, workflow-by-workflow, with live coaching calls to ask questions along the way, and a member community that's available around the clock, because someone across a different time zone is always online. The prompt library inside covers everything from client outreach, to content workflows, to lead generation automations. Not generic prompts, prompts built around the specific tools and workflows that are working right now for people running businesses with AI. And the member map is one of those features that doesn't get talked about enough.

It shows you other AI profit boardroom members near you, so you can connect locally, meet up, and work through implementations with people in your own city. When AI tools are moving this fast, having someone nearby who's using the same workflows is genuinely useful. The three awards that came in this year are a reflection of what members have been experiencing. FatRank said, the strategies inside operate at a higher level than what the competition is offering.

Autoblogging.ai confirmed the educational quality and member ROI. The Hermes panel confirmed the implementation focus. That's the loop. Community members get results.

Independent reviewers notice. The award confirms what was already happening on the inside. The AI space is going to keep moving fast. New models, new tools, new frameworks, new updates.

The question isn't whether you have access to information about them. You do. Everyone does. The question is whether you're in a room where that information gets turned into something actionable before it goes stale.

The three organizations that ran these evaluations all landed on the same answer to that question. If you want daily tutorials walking you through the exact tools and workflows, these award panels evaluated. Coaching calls where we go deep on how to use AI to grow your business. A 30-day roadmap built around the specific automations that are working right now.

And 3,400 members who are actively building alongside you. Link is in the description below or go to aiprofitboardroom.com. The community that just won three best AI community awards is the same one you can join today. I'll see you inside.

More episodes

Browse all episodes →