DCT AI Community is a Skool group with three membership tiers, Standard at $17 a month, Premium at $47 a month and VIP at $97 a month, built for creative business owners learning to use AI on purpose. Charlene, EPIC's founder, holds DCT's Certified Prompt Design Professional credential, a separate CPD-accredited track within the same community.

Charlene is an ambassador for DCT AI Community, and the links to it in this piece are affiliate links: EPIC earns a commission if you join through them, at no extra cost to you.

The three tiers

Standard, $17 a month. Community access, monthly prompt drops, live sessions every other Friday and Sunday, connections with other members, and select resources from DCT's live TikTok and YouTube events. Right for anyone brand new to DCT and still deciding whether to commit further. Not the tier for anyone ready to build and earn, the paid tiers serve that better from day one.

Premium, $47 a month. Everything in Standard, plus every DCT Learning Lab module across all three skill levels: learning AI, building digital products, growing an audience, and creating income from existing knowledge. Right for anyone ready to train properly, first time or after a course that did not stick. Not built for one-to-one coaching or exclusive access, that sits in VIP.

VIP, $97 a month. Everything in Premium, plus session replays, bonus modules, deeper classroom and live training access run by DCT coaches and the executive board, priority escalation handling, and VIP-only spaces. Right for someone already building who wants accountability and proximity. Not the place to start if you are still exploring, Premium fits that better.

How far the training actually goes

Premium and VIP walk members through a proper curriculum, DCT's own, built as a ladder rather than a single lesson. It starts with the fundamentals and keeps climbing through content, offers, audience building and mindset work, all the way up to members building their own GPTs, agents and workflows by the far end. The exact module structure belongs to DCT and is not reproduced here; what matters for deciding whether to join is the shape of the claim, that this spans well past beginner territory.

Who gets the most out of it

  • Creatives at any stage. Art, content and offer building are the community's core language, not an add-on.
  • Anyone deciding between watching and doing. Standard is built as a low commitment first look before a paid tier.
  • Anyone who wants structured training with a community around it. Premium is the training tier proper.
  • Anyone already building who wants closer support. VIP adds coach access and priority handling for people past the exploration stage.

Who should skip it

Skip DCT if what you actually want leans data science rather than creative or business building. The curriculum's language is art, content, offers and audience, not technical AI development. There is no other honest exclusion here: the ladder runs from complete beginner through to certification, so skill level alone is not a reason to skip it.

Choosing a tier

Pick Standard if you are still deciding. Pick Premium if you are ready to train properly. Pick VIP if you are already building and want the closer room. The mismatch to avoid is paying for VIP's accountability while still deciding, or staying on Standard once you already know you are ready to build.

DCT AI Community is here: Join DCT AI Community (affiliate link, ambassador declared).

For creative businesses that want a professional-level credential

DCT also runs a separate credential, Certified Prompt Design Professional (CPDP), accredited by CPD, the CPD Certification Service. It sits outside the three community tiers and is not aimed at someone taking a first look at AI. It covers prompt anatomy and structure, building a prompt library as an actual business asset, templates and frameworks built to scale, managing multi-turn conversations and context, ethics and professional standards, building custom AI assistants and skill files, and how to commercialise prompt work. It suits someone who already has professional expertise elsewhere and wants their AI use to work at that same level, not a beginner.

Charlene holds this credential herself: Certified Prompt Design Professional (CPDP) (a separate affiliate link from the community one above).

Where this fits in a bigger toolkit

Learning to prompt well is one part of turning creative work into income. Knowing what to ask for once you can prompt is the other, which is where the Pixi's Burrow prompt builder apps come in.

DCT AI Community is one entry in the EPIC recommendation catalogue, where every tool and community is chosen for founders building on variable energy, with prices said out loud and honest notes on who each one is not for.

Match the tier, or the credential, to where the business actually is today. Standard for a first careful look, Premium for real training, VIP for closer support while building, CPDP for creative work that already pays and wants AI held to the same standard. The wrong choice here is not a wasted skill level, it is the wrong door for right now.