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 "id": "future-skills-academy",
 "name": "Future Skills Academy",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "futureskillsacademy.com",
 "category": "Business Operations",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Self-paced online AI training with accredited certification programs, a career counselor on the top plan and team plans with an admin dashboard.",
 "best_for": "individuals who want a self-paced AI certification, and small teams who want to train two or more people with an admin dashboard",
 "skip_if": "you want a free plan beyond one intro course, need a refund window longer than 7 days, or want independently verified accreditation before you pay",
 "honest_knock": "Dollar signs are shown without a currency code, and the headline prices sit next to crossed-out higher prices, so check the price at checkout. Premium and Standard are billed yearly even though they are quoted per month. The refund window is 7 days, with conditions on progress and downloads. The accreditation, the learner counts and the testimonials on the site are the vendor's own claims, not verified by us. A free course is listed, but there is no free membership.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$25",
  "entry_price_terms": "Standard · Standard shown as $25 a month billed yearly (a crossed-out $50 is shown next to it) for one certification program and a year of access",
  "from_price_usd_month": 25.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-06 on futureskillsacademy.com/pricing) Future Skills Academy sells three plans. Standard costs $25 a month billed yearly (the page shows a crossed-out $50 next to it) and covers one accredited certification program with unlimited access for one year. Premium costs $75 a month billed yearly (crossed-out $150) and covers all certification programs, the full content library, a dedicated study counselor and CV preparation, and a customized study plan. Teams costs $50 a month (crossed-out $100) with a minimum of 2 team members and adds an admin dashboard, progress reports, custom training tracks and team counselors; the page does not say whether the Teams price is per member or how it is billed. The page shows dollar signs without naming a currency. A banner on the page advertises 20% off all learning plans with a code; we did not check how long that runs. One introductory course, AI for Everyone, is listed as free; that is not a free membership. The refund policy allows a refund request only within 7 days of enrollment, and only if no more than 10% of a certification was completed and no presentations were downloaded.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 25.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Standard, Standard shown as $25 a month billed yearly (a crossed-out $50 is shown next to it) for one certification program and a year of access; Premium $75 a month billed yearly for all programs; Teams $50 a month with a minimum of 2 members; the page shows dollar signs without naming a currency code (read 6 Nov 2026). Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-06.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/future-skills-academy-review/"
  },
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Premium",
    "quote": "$75 $150 Per month, billed yearly",
    "source_url": "https://futureskillsacademy.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-11-05"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Standard",
    "quote": "$25 $50 Per month, billed yearly",
    "source_url": "https://futureskillsacademy.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-11-05"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Teams",
    "quote": "Teams$50 per month",
    "source_url": "https://futureskillsacademy.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-11-05"
   },
   {
    "field": "refund",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "you can initiate a refund only within 7 days of enrollment.",
    "source_url": "https://futureskillsacademy.com/refund-policy/",
    "read_on": "2026-11-05"
   }
  ],
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Evolve",
  "why": "Evolve is in our dossiers as an AI-native training platform (an LMS) that enterprises use to build their own branded academies. Future Skills Academy instead sells ready-made AI certification courses to individuals and teams, so it is a different kind of purchase. We have not compared the two on price"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/future-skills-academy.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/future-skills-academy-review/",
  "marketplace": null,
  "vendor_site": "https://futureskillsacademy.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=77122&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "quoted"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "future-skills-academy:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "future-skills-academy:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "future-skills-academy:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "future-skills-academy:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
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}