Warning: I Lost $20,000 to the AI Agency Mastermind Program

I joined the AI Agency Mastermind course and community on 4/12/25, after being drawn in by Wyatt and Carson's slick marketing videos. They painted this vivid picture of hands-on support and mentorship that, honestly, felt like exactly what I needed at that moment. I bit the bullet and transferred $20,000 from my business savings—money I'd carefully set aside over years of hard work—truly believing this investment would finally give me the roadmap to build my AI agency from the ground up.

The reality hit hard. After joining, my messages seemed to disappear into a void. Throughout six grueling months from April to October, I sent 14 increasingly desperate emails and 27 Discord messages. I was just looking for basic help with client acquisition and fixing glitches in their templates. Nothing. No replies. Just silence. Those daily coaching calls that had me so excited? Mostly a mirage. Out of 24 calls scheduled in my first month alone, 17 vanished without warning and 5 were pushed to times when I was either asleep or in client meetings due to my time zone. I'd literally set alarms to wake up for calls that never happened.

When I hit technical roadblocks implementing their client onboarding system in May, I felt completely stranded. I reached out everywhere—email, Discord, even hunting for a phone number that didn't exist. The Discord community, which they'd described as this buzzing hive of support and collaboration, was eerily quiet most days. I even tested the waters by posting an obviously nonsensical question once. Within minutes, I got three responses that felt canned and completely missed the point of what I'd asked.

This experience cost me not just the $20,000—which stung enough—but also three months of misdirected effort that set my business growth back considerably. The materials they provided seemed suspiciously familiar, and by July, I realized why: much of it resembled content freely available in YouTube tutorials. When September rolled around and I tried to request a refund, I discovered they were no longer accessible through the payment platform I'd used, creating yet another barrier to recovering any portion of my investment.