Fabien Lefevre's BEyond: A Free Skool at $12,391/mo

BEyond Universe is a free, public Skool community founded by Fabien Lefevre, covering what its about page calls individual and collective ascension from 3D to 5D. Anyone can join without paying. It still appeared on Skool's leaderboard on 3 September 2026 at $12,391.25 a month, thirteenth in Spirituality and 527th overall, with 400 people on the roster.

That combination is the reason it is worth reading. It is a five figure monthly business running behind a door that charges nothing, on a roster of only 400 people, and the mechanism is stated plainly in the first four lines of the about copy: the room is free, the things sold inside it are not. The free rooms we have written up at higher revenue, Studicata at $82,478 a month among them, carry rosters in the tens of thousands. This one carries 400.

Who is Fabien Lefevre?

The Skool profile displays the name Fabien Lefevre, the location Washington DC, and a bio reading "Founder of BEyond - Multidimensional Coaching - Olympian & World Champion." The athletic claim is his own, made on his profile.

Fabien Lefevre

Owner of BEyond Universe, created 12 October 2025 and run with six other admins. His Skool bio describes him as the founder of BEyond, a multidimensional coach, and an Olympian and world champion, and lists Washington DC. Public sporting records, including Wikipedia and the International Canoe Federation's own athlete database, list a canoe slalom competitor named Fabien Lefevre who won Olympic bronze in 2004 and Olympic silver in 2008 and holds seven ICF world titles, and who competed while based near Washington DC, which matches the location on the profile. We have not independently confirmed that the Skool account and that athlete are the same person, and we take no position on the healing modalities the community teaches.

What does the BEyond Universe about page sell?

A price list, in two languages, inside a room that charges nothing to enter. The page is 870 characters and roughly half of it is French, repeating the English half line for line. Below is the copy as published, with emoji replaced by plain markers and the French kept in the original. Hover a number for our reading.

How does a free Skool community make $12,391 a month?

By separating the door from the till. Skool lets an owner set the community itself to free while selling paid products to the people already inside, and BEyond Universe runs exactly that shape: a public room anybody can enter, with a $55 monthly membership, one to one sessions, two levels of QEM course and events sold from within.

The arithmetic that follows is not the usual one. On a paid room we divide revenue by members to see what share of the roster is actually buying. Here that calculation returns $30.98 per listed member, but the denominator includes everyone who walked in for free, so the number is not a conversion rate and should not be read as one. What it does tell you is the revenue value of a free member in this particular room, which is far higher than the free community sceptics assume.

None of these is better than the others. They answer different questions. The free-door shape is the only one that lets a founder run a genuinely large public room and a genuinely small paid one without the two numbers embarrassing each other, and it is why a member count on its own is marketing rather than accounting. Our full read on that trade off is in the Skool freemium model.

Why publish prices on a page that says Free?

Because the alternative is a bait and switch the visitor discovers later. Skool renders "Free" at the top of this about page in its own interface, and four lines below it the owner's copy lists a $55 subscription. Both are true, and putting them within an inch of each other is the honest version.

The cost of doing it the other way is churn and complaint. A visitor who joins a free room, spends a week in it and then finds the useful material behind a subscription feels sold to. A visitor who read a price list before joining does not, because they already knew. The same principle governs paid rooms that publish their price inside the body copy instead of leaving it to the button, which we cover in how to write a Skool about page.

The playbook underneath a free room at $12,391

Write both languages in full, in the same block. This page does not translate its opening line and leave the price list in English. It repeats the entire structure, price included, so a French reader never has to switch. Skool now ships a multilingual interface, but interface translation does not touch an about page, and hand-writing the second language is still the only way to make a bilingual room readable to both halves of its audience.

Publish the menu before the door. Four bullets under the heading "To purchase" is the whole monetisation strategy, stated in public, before anyone has joined. It costs nothing, filters nobody worth keeping, and removes every later conversation about whether the room is really free.

Do not read a free room's post count as engagement. 357 posts across 400 members is 0.89 each, thin by any standard, and that is normal for a free door: most people who join something free never post in it. Judging a free community by its feed is a category error, and the number that matters is what the paid layer above it does.

Expect the leaderboard row to move against you anyway. This room shed $613.75 in thirty days, about 4.7% of its base, while sitting on a free entrance and 1,243 listed visitors. A free door removes the price objection; it does not remove churn from the products behind it. We track the wider pattern in the Skool Games leaderboard breakdown.

Frequently asked questions

What is BEyond Universe?

It is a free, public Skool community founded by Fabien Lefevre, focused on what the about page calls individual and collective ascension from 3D to 5D. The page is written in English and French and names four things sold inside: a $55 monthly membership, one to one sessions, QEM courses at Level 1 and Level 2, and events.

Is BEyond Universe free?

Joining is free. Skool displays the community as Free and Public and the button reads JOIN GROUP rather than a price. The about copy then lists a membership at $55 a month or $555 a year, plus sessions, courses and events, all of which are paid.

How much does the BEyond membership cost?

$55 a month or $555 a year, as published in the about copy on 3 September 2026, described there as cancel anytime. The annual figure is equivalent to just over ten monthly payments.

How does a free Skool community earn money?

By charging for products sold to members rather than for entry. Skool allows a community to be free while the owner sells subscriptions, sessions or courses inside it. BEyond Universe was listed at $12,391.25 in monthly recurring revenue on 3 September 2026 with a free front door.

Who is Fabien Lefevre?

The Skool profile displays Fabien Lefevre, located in Washington DC, with a bio describing him as founder of BEyond, a multidimensional coach, and an Olympian and world champion. Public sporting records list a canoe slalom athlete of that name with Olympic medals from 2004 and 2008 and seven ICF world titles. We have not independently confirmed the two are the same person.

How many members does BEyond Universe have?

400 members and 7 admins on 3 September 2026, with a 5.0 rating from 4 reviews. It was created on 12 October 2025, making it 326 days old at measurement, and held 357 posts across 12 courses and 136 modules.