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Personal Branding / Creator Business · Beginner to intermediate · English
Time to Build stopped being a course in 2026. What is sold today is a monthly membership: 48 live calls a year with Tom Noske on Tuesdays at 8:30am AEST, 24 fortnightly build sessions with a named head of student support, written 1:1 answers promised inside 72 hours, the whole back catalogue unlocked on day one, and a community the seller sizes at 1,000+ people. The commercial surfaces are clean. The price is public with no application or call in the way, the company behind it is named on its own terms — Noske Creative Pty Ltd, ABN 40 678 027 051 — the governing law is stated, Australian Consumer Law rights are expressly preserved, and there are no lock-ins. That is a materially better deal than the same brand's own history: a Wayback capture from 15 August 2025 shows the predecessor selling at $5,999 by application only, and one from 15 April 2024 shows cohort tiers at $1,499 and $3,999, with a $775 × 2 split-payment option on the cheaper one. Two things should slow a buyer down, and neither is a scandal. First, the proof. Roughly two dozen testimonials carry real names, handles and specific dollar figures, but all of them sit on the seller's own page, none says what its author paid or when, and the headline "$7,768,728" is counted by the seller from a wins channel behind the paywall. Our search sweep on 2026-08-13, logged in the coverage table, found the organic results for a review of this course dominated by pirated-download listings rather than by anyone writing about it — so there is nothing external to weigh the page against, in either direction. Second, the refund. Every mention of it on the sales page is unqualified — "no questions asked" four times, plus "No questions, no forms, no proving you did the work" and "No questions. No guilt." — while the linked terms restrict it to your first-ever membership, exclude returning and rejoining members, and require a start date on or after 18 July 2026. Read that page before you join, not after.
Last checked · Evidence is labeled by source type and freshness.
Legitimate and operating: a registered Australian company with an ABN on its own published terms, a public price, a named founder with a decade-long public footprint, a live Stripe checkout, and a dated change-of-mind refund with a stated mechanism. The weakness is corroboration, not conduct. Every outcome number on the page is self-counted, no lesson count or runtime is published for the on-demand vault, and the refund's eligibility limits live on a different page from the sales copy's unqualified "no questions asked" promises.
Quick verdict
Time to Build is Tom Noske's $200/month coaching membership for creators, coaches and niche experts who want to package what they already know into something they can sell. It ran as a cohort course twelve times — priced at $1,499 and $3,999 in April 2024 and at $5,999 by application in August 2025 — before becoming a membership in 2026. Members get 48 live calls a year with Noske, 24 fortnightly build sessions, written 1:1 support promised inside 72 hours, the full curriculum vault on day one, and a private community. Checked 2026-08-13 it is live at $200/mo with a 7-day change-of-mind refund on a first membership, and no independent review surfaced in that day's search sweep.
Rating methodology
The commercial facts are firm: price, inclusions, session counts, contact address, company name and ABN, and both the current and the superseded refund terms were read directly off the seller's own live pages on 2026-08-13, and the price history was read off Wayback captures of the same domain from 15 April 2024 and 15 August 2025. What happens inside is not: this research did not join the membership, and the search sweep logged in the coverage table (six queries on 2026-08-13 across Reddit, Trustpilot, YouTube and general web) returned no independent review or firsthand buyer account — the review-intent results were dominated by pirated-download listings. Member outcomes are therefore unestablished rather than shown to be poor, and the confidence sits at moderate because the seller's own testimonial set, while unusually specific and fully named, is unverified and undated.
Weighted total: 3.820, rounded to one decimal as 3.8/5. Read the rating methodology.
Course record
A monthly membership sold directly from timetobuild.live with no application step, run by Noske Creative Pty Ltd (ABN 40 678 027 051) and hosted on Circle — the join button points at timetobuild.circle.so. The published inclusions are: weekly live calls with Tom Noske, "48 a year", every Tuesday at 8:30am AEST, with each call recorded and "available within 24 hours"; fortnightly "Live Build Sessions" with Daniel, the head of student support, "24 a year"; an "Ask Tom" space for written 1:1 questions answered personally and "Guaranteed within 72 hours", which the page says is averaging 42 hours this year; the "Masterclass Vault", the full curriculum "tested and refined across 12 cohorts", unlocked on day one with nothing drip-fed; a "Builders Toolkit" of templates, trackers and custom GPTs; and a private community the seller sizes at "1,000+ builders". Four numbered bonuses are listed as included — the Lean Launch templates, an AI offer-finder called OfferSharp, an idea-extraction workflow called The Big Idea Extractor, and quarterly challenges — followed by "AI Tom" under the heading "Also included for free", a chatbot the page says is "Trained on 10+ years of Tom's coaching IP". Payment is monthly by Stripe, cancellable at any time, with no contract.
Founder and lead coach; runs the weekly live calls and the Ask Tom support space
Source: ttb-official, ttb-linkedin, ttb-podcast, ttb-wayback-2024Published structure
These are the seller's own headings and phase goals, read off the live page on 2026-08-13. Half of this membership is live and deliberately unscripted — the page says the weekly call is built around "the problem most people inside Time to Build are facing this week", not a fixed syllabus — so the roadmap below is the sequence a member is guided through, not a lesson list. The seller publishes no lesson count, no runtime and no module-by-module outline for the on-demand vault, so none is stated here. This research did not join the membership.
Fit
Creators, coaches and skilled professionals who already have expertise and want help packaging it into a first paid offer.
People with a small or no audience: the seller's own examples lean heavily on members it describes as starting under 3,000 followers.
Operators who learn best by having their own landing page, offer or launch numbers picked apart in writing and on live calls.
People who already run a service or freelance business and want to productise it rather than keep trading hours.
Not the right buy if you want a defined, completable syllabus you can finish and cancel — half of what you are paying for is the live cadence, and the seller says so.
Not the right buy if $2,400 a year is uncomfortable, since the value is a recurring commitment rather than a one-time purchase.
The price is public and unconditional on the page: $200/month, no application, no discovery call, no opt-in to see it.
A registered legal entity is printed on the seller's own terms — Noske Creative Pty Ltd, ABN 40 678 027 051 — with governing law stated as Victoria, Australia.
7-day change-of-mind refund on a first membership with a published mechanism: email admin@timetobuild.live, refund to the original method, "normally arrive within 5 to 10 business days".
No lock-in: "you can cancel anytime to stop all future payments. There are no lock-ins and no contracts."
The guarantee terms expressly preserve Australian Consumer Law rights rather than contracting around them.
The live commitment is quantified rather than vague: 48 calls a year, 24 build sessions, replays inside 24 hours, written answers inside 72 hours.
Roughly two dozen testimonials carry a full name and a public handle, so a reader can go and look at the people rather than take initials on trust.
The seller publishes its own price history honestly in the FAQ — that it ran as a cohort course twelve times before becoming a membership in 2026 — rather than hiding the pivot.
A "Give this a miss if" block turns away buyers who want a silver bullet or want the work done for them.
Materially cheaper than the same brand's own predecessor: $5,999 by application in the 15 August 2025 capture, $1,499 and $3,999 in the 15 April 2024 capture.
Every outcome figure on the page is self-counted: the "$7,768,728" total is, in the seller's words, tallied from wins "a member posted in our private wins channel" that no outsider can open.
None of the sales page's refund promises carries the eligibility limits printed on the linked /guarantee page — first membership only, no returning or rejoining members, start date on or after 18 July 2026. The phrase "no questions asked" appears four times, and "No questions, no forms, no proving you did the work" and "No questions. No guilt." twice more, all unqualified.
None of the roughly two dozen testimonials is dated or states what its author paid, and several describe cohort launches rather than the 2026 membership.
The search sweep of 2026-08-13 logged in the coverage table returned no independent review or firsthand buyer account; the review-intent results were dominated by pirated-download listings.
No lesson count, runtime or module outline is published for the Masterclass Vault, so the on-demand half cannot be sized before joining.
The marketing is income-framed from the title down — "Build a $10K/Month Business Selling What You Know" — and the 2025 capture of the same brand went further with "designed to help you 5-10x your investment in the first 3-6 months".
A subscription has no end point: the FAQ concedes "the reason members stay is the live weekly calls", so the real cost is $2,400 a year, not $200.
Live calls run at 8:30am AEST, which is inconvenient across the Americas and Europe; replays are provided but the live coaching is the thing being paid for.
No visible line on the sales page labels the currency of the "$200" from an Australian seller; it is USD only per the page's own markup (data-usd="200", and an AU/NZ swap reading "You'll see A$300 at checkout. That's the same price as US$200"), and both Circle checkout URLs returned HTTP 403 to an automated fetch on 2026-08-13, so it was not confirmed at the payment page.
The "Refunds" policy linked in the footer sits on Termly's viewer, which returned only its shell to an automated fetch on 2026-08-13, so it could not be cross-read against the /guarantee page.
The membership is new in its current form: the guarantee governing it took effect on 18 July 2026, so there is no track record yet of how it is applied.
Risk review
Named Australian company with an ABN and a stated jurisdiction on its own published guarantee terms.
Australian Consumer Law rights expressly preserved: "Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify any rights you have under the ACL."
A superseded guarantee is archived and dated on the seller's own site rather than deleted, and the older, harder terms are still readable at /guarantee-90-day.
The founder trades under his real name across LinkedIn, a podcast feed dating to 2020, and the site's own 2024 contact address tom@tomnoske.com.
Testimonials carry public handles, which makes them checkable by a reader rather than anonymous.
The FAQ discloses the product's own pivot — twelve cohorts before the 2026 membership — instead of presenting the membership as its original form.
Refund mechanism, turnaround, support address and checkout provider are all disclosed before purchase.
The single largest proof point on the page — nearly $7.8M in student wins — is counted by the seller from a channel behind its own paywall.
The unqualified "no questions asked" framing on the sales page and the eligibility limits on the guarantee page tell a buyer two different things.
The seller's own "$10K/month" headline and the phase-three goal "Make more from your first launch than the membership has cost you" are outcome promises supported only by self-reported member figures.
The FAQ carries an unqualified superlative in the seller's own voice — "TTB is the only programme that integrates both from day one" — which this research neither verified nor adopts.
The 15 April 2024 and 15 August 2025 captures of the same domain carry no refund or money-back policy at all in their sales copy: the 2025 capture returns zero hits for "refund", "guarantee" and "money back", and on the 2024 capture "refund" returns nothing, "guarantee" returns only the checkout badge "Guaranteed safe & secure checkout" and two marketing uses of the verb, and "money back" appears only inside a member quote. So buyer protection at $1,499–$5,999 was weaker than what is offered at $200/mo today.
The prior 90-day guarantee was conditional on evidence of work — 50% call attendance, demonstrated engagement, a completed Lean Launch — which is a reminder that a headline guarantee at this seller has carried fine print before.
Community and cohort figures move across surfaces without reconciliation: "850+ serious creators" on the 2025 capture, "1,000+ builders" today, "250+ Reviews" beside the 2024 checkout buttons with no source given for the count.
Terms
Every tier, discount and plan the seller publishes, in one place. The analysis underneath is ours.
Checked on · prices in USD
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Time to Build membership | $200/month | The only tier published on the sales page; billed by Stripe, cancellable anytime |
| Historical: Time to Build 2.0 | $5,999 | Application-only cohort, per the Wayback capture of 15 Aug 2025 — not on sale today |
| Historical: cohort six tiers | $1,499 / $3,999 | "time to build cohort" and "the supercharged build", per the Wayback capture of 15 Apr 2024 |
| Historical: cohort six split payment plan | $775 × 2 | "Enrol in Time to Build for 2x monthly installments", same inclusions as the $1,499 tier — $1,550 total — per the Wayback capture of 15 Apr 2024 |
The number is public and repeated: "$200" appears a dozen times in the rendered page, in three formulations — the CTA "Start building for $200/mo", an investment block reading "$200 /month", and the sentence "It's $200 a month. That's about $46 a week, two dinners out. Cancel anytime, no contracts." — mostly sitting beside "Cancel anytime · 7-day money-back guarantee". One thing the reader-visible copy never says is which dollar: no line on the page labels the currency, and the seller is Australian (Noske Creative Pty Ltd, ABN 40 678 027 051, governing law Victoria, calls at 8:30am AEST). The page's own source answers it — the price spans are marked up with data-usd="200", a geo script rewrites them to "A$300/mo" for AU and NZ visitors, and the line it reveals to those visitors reads "You'll see A$300 at checkout. That's the same price as US$200, just billed in your own currency." So $200 is USD for everyone else, and Australian and New Zealand buyers should expect a flat A$300 rather than a live conversion. This was read out of the page's markup, not confirmed at checkout: both Circle checkout URLs returned HTTP 403 to an automated fetch on 2026-08-13. There is no application, no discovery call and no opt-in between a reader and that number, and a grep of the rendered page and its fourteen FAQ answers on 2026-08-13 found no coupon field, promotional banner or discounted tier. No annual plan appears on the page today, although the seller's own archived 90-day guarantee terms record that the membership took "monthly or annual" members before 18 July 2026, so a yearly option existed earlier in 2026 and is not advertised now. What gives the $200 its context is the same brand's own price history on the same domain. The Wayback capture of 15 August 2025 sells "time to build 2.0" at "$5,999", "by application only", against a struck-through "TOTAL VALUE: $21,000", with "payment plans available" and "limited to 80 creators". The capture of 15 April 2024 sells three options: "time to build cohort $1,499", "the supercharged build $3,999", and a "split payment plan $775 x 2" carrying the same inclusions as the $1,499 tier — $1,550 in total, so a $51 premium for splitting. So roughly seven months of today's membership costs what the cheapest 2024 cohort tier cost, and about thirty months of it matches the 2025 application price — with the crucial difference that a member can stop after the first payment. The seller makes that argument itself: "coaches who charge $10,000 or $20,000 up front get paid whether you win or not. I'd rather earn it every month. You only keep paying me if I keep earning it." The honest way for a buyer to price this is not $200. Half of what is being bought is the live cadence, and the FAQ concedes the recurring logic outright — "the reason members stay is the live weekly calls, the Ask Tom support, the ongoing mentorship and the community" — so the realistic comparison is $2,400 a year against a one-off course, and the on-demand half of the offer cannot be sized before joining because no lesson count or runtime is published anywhere on the page.
Three published models on the same domain in twenty-eight months. 15 April 2024: two cohort tiers sold outright, "time to build cohort $1,499" and "the supercharged build $3,999", alongside a third option — a "split payment plan $775 x 2", "Enrol in Time to Build for 2x monthly installments", with the same inclusion list as the $1,499 tier ($1,550 all up) — and a "Cohort 6" running 12 February to 15 March. 15 August 2025: "time to build 2.0", "by application only", "$5,999" against a "TOTAL VALUE: $21,000", "payment plans available", "limited to 80 creators". 2026: the cohort model is retired — the seller's own FAQ says "Time to Build ran as a cohort course 12 times before it became a membership in 2026" — and the product is sold as a $200/month subscription. An annual option existed at some point before 18 July 2026, evidenced only by the archived guarantee's reference to "monthly or annual" members; it is not on the page today.
Price re-read from the rendered sales page on 2026-08-13; refund terms read the same day from timetobuild.live/guarantee, which is dated 28 July 2026 on its face; price history read from Wayback captures of 15 April 2024 and 15 August 2025.
Homepage testimonials
These are seller-selected user posts and screenshots, not a representative sample. We preserve the visible wording and label what was and was not independently verified.
“I cannot believe im posting this, considering I have a whopping 77 followers. But my first client has just come through. He dm'd me looking for help getting in shape and I've just closed him for 250$... 3 years of trying and failing and it's finally happened. Let's go!!”
Quoted verbatim from the seller's own sales page, read 2026-08-13, where it is captioned "Fitness Creator · 77 followers → first sale, $250" and carries the handle shown. Seller-curated and undated: the page does not say when this was posted, what the member paid, or whether they were in a cohort or the membership. The account was not contacted. The internal ellipsis is the seller's own.
View source ↗“I ended up landing 7 students for my first iteration of Up the Stakes! I have generated $10.5K USD. But most importantly, I've been given the opportunity to truly make a difference in peoples lives.”
Quoted verbatim from the seller's sales page, read 2026-08-13, captioned "Professional Poker Player · 1,100 followers → $10.5K in 2 weeks". Included because the same member is the page's most-repeated proof point, cited three separate times in its own body copy. Note the seller's own figures move between surfaces: this caption says 1,100 followers, while the 15 August 2025 capture of the same site describes the same result as coming "From 2200 followers and a small email list". Undated and seller-curated; not independently confirmed.
View source ↗“Just launched my own cohort this week. Set a goal for 30 students and $15,000 in revenue ($500 price point for cohort 1). I honestly thought it was such a lofty goal and didn't expect to come anywhere close — but I just closed cart and in 5 days I got 33 people on board for $16,500.”
Quoted verbatim from the seller's sales page, read 2026-08-13, captioned "Manychat Expert · 55K followers → $18K Launch". Truncated at a sentence end; the original continues with an expletive. Note the caption rounds a stated $16,500 to "$18K", which is the kind of gap a buyer should read the underlying quotes for. Undated, seller-curated, not independently confirmed.
View source ↗“Time to Build has been one of the best business decisions I have made in years. The team, professionalism, content, value, students and structure of the program are truly remarkable.”
Quoted verbatim from the seller's sales page, read 2026-08-13, under the heading "Here's What Our Students Think". Included as the contrary case to the rest of the wall: it is the one testimonial the page gives its own section to, and it is also the weakest evidentially — no handle, no niche, no number, no date, and it describes "the program", which was a cohort course until 2026. Not independently confirmed.
View source ↗Evidence
Facts, claims, reports, analysis, and unknowns are deliberately kept separate.
Read from the seller's rendered sales page on 2026-08-13: the price a dozen times in three formulations ("Start building for $200/mo", "$200 /month", "It's $200 a month. That's about $46 a week, two dinners out. Cancel anytime, no contracts."); the inclusion list with its counts (48 live calls a year with Tom, 24 build sessions a year with Daniel, "Direct 1:1 support from Tom (Ask Tom) · 72-hour answers", "The Masterclass Vault · Full curriculum, day one", "The Builders Toolkit", "The private community · 1,000+ builders"); the call time "Every Tuesday at 8:30am AEST"; the support metric "Guaranteed within 72 hours · 42-hour average"; the three-phase 90-day roadmap; four numbered bonuses plus "AI Tom" as "Also included for free"; the contact address admin@timetobuild.live; and the FAQ disclosure "Time to Build ran as a cohort course 12 times before it became a membership in 2026". No reader-visible line names the currency; the page's markup does (data-usd="200", an AU/NZ swap to "A$300/mo" and the swapped line "That's the same price as US$200, just billed in your own currency"), and both Circle checkout URLs returned HTTP 403 to an automated fetch that day.
Sources: Time To Build — "Build a $10K/Month Business Selling What You Know" (official sales page)The seller's dedicated guarantee terms, read 2026-08-13 and dated "Effective: July 18, 2026 · Last updated: July 28, 2026", name the legal entity "Noske Creative Pty Ltd … ABN 40 678 027 051" and state "tell us within 7 days of your first payment and we'll refund that payment in full… A change of mind is enough." They also carry the limits the sales page omits: "only on your first ever Time To Build Membership", "Your Membership must start on or after July 18, 2026", "Returning or rejoining members are not eligible", membership fees only, and "After your first 7 days, payments are not refundable, but you can cancel anytime… There are no lock-ins and no contracts." Governing law is Victoria, Australia, with an express Australian Consumer Law carve-in.
Sources: 2 further sources recorded in the research fileWayback captures of the same domain show three products in twenty-eight months. 15 April 2024: "time to build cohort $1,499" and "the supercharged build $3,999", cohort six running 12 February to 15 March, "See our 250+ Reviews" beside the checkout buttons. 15 August 2025: "time to build 2.0", "by application only", "$5,999" against "TOTAL VALUE: $21,000", "payment plans available", "limited to 80 creators", "850+ serious creators", and a wins tracker at "$3,457,843.79". The 2024 capture also publishes a third purchase option, "split payment plan $775 x 2 / Enrol in Time to Build for 2x monthly installments", carrying the same inclusions as the $1,499 tier. Grepped on 2026-08-13, neither capture states a refund or money-back policy: the 2025 capture has zero hits for "refund", "guarantee" and "money back"; the 2024 capture has none for "refund", four "Guaranteed safe & secure checkout" badges and two marketing uses of "guarantee", and one "money back" inside a member testimonial.
Sources: Wayback Machine — timetobuild.live, snapshot of 15 August 2025 ("time to build 2.0") · 1 further source recorded in the research fileUnaudited representations by the seller, reproduced here as claims: "$7,768,728" in total student wins (with its own stated method, "Every dollar in that number is a win a member posted in our private wins channel… We count them one by one."), "1,000+ students.", "Members in 87 countries.", "29 different niches", "Grew a $400K/yr product business before teaching anyone. Three million-dollar years since.", "Trained on 10+ years of Tom's coaching IP", and the FAQ's own superlative "TTB is the only programme that integrates both from day one" — which this research did not verify and does not adopt. The 15 August 2025 capture adds "This program is specifically designed to help you 5-10x your investment in the first 3-6 months." and the 15 April 2024 capture adds "345k+ followers on Instagram" and "$172,363 in September 2023".
Sources: Time To Build — "Build a $10K/Month Business Selling What You Know" (official sales page) · Wayback Machine — timetobuild.live, snapshot of 15 August 2025 ("time to build 2.0") · 1 further source recorded in the research fileRoughly two dozen member accounts appear on the seller's page, each with a full name and a public handle — among them Avinesh Patel ("my first client has just come through… closed him for 250$"), Brett Clur ("9 students at $99 each"), Nelson Dong ("I have generated $10.5K USD"), Steven Healy ("41 students, $2,500USD (some payment plans)… $119.8K AUD cash collected upfront") and Gannon Meyer ("33 people on board for $16,500") — plus five video interviews conducted by the seller's own head of student support. They are user reports in substance, but every one is hosted and selected by the seller, none is dated, and none states what its author paid or which version of the product they bought. Their captions and the quotes do not always agree: Gannon Meyer's stated $16,500 is captioned "$18K Launch", and Nelson Dong's "1,100 followers" caption is described as "2200 followers" on the 15 August 2025 capture of the same site.
Sources: Time To Build — "Build a $10K/Month Business Selling What You Know" (official sales page) · Wayback Machine — timetobuild.live, snapshot of 15 August 2025 ("time to build 2.0")The rating turns on a split between unusually good commercial hygiene and unusually thin external corroboration. On one side: a public price with no gatekeeping, a registered company with an ABN on its own terms, an ACL carve-in, a dated change-of-mind refund with a published mechanism, no lock-in, a quantified live cadence, and a price that is a fraction of what the same brand charged in 2024 and 2025. On the other: every outcome number is self-counted, the refund's eligibility limits sit on a different page from the sales copy's unqualified "no questions asked" promises, the on-demand half cannot be sized before joining, and the six queries logged on 2026-08-13 surfaced no independent review to weigh any of it against — the review-intent organic results were dominated by pirated-download listings rather than by anyone writing about the product. Low buyer risk on the first payment is what keeps this in the upper-middle band; the absence of outside corroboration is what keeps it out of the top one.
Sources: Time To Build — "Build a $10K/Month Business Selling What You Know" (official sales page) · Wayback Machine — timetobuild.live, snapshot of 15 August 2025 ("time to build 2.0") · 1 further source recorded in the research fileUnresolved after this research: the Masterclass Vault's lesson count, runtime and last re-recording date, none of which the seller publishes; whether the "$7,768,728" reconciles against anything outside the private wins channel it is counted from; what the named members paid and when; typical member outcomes, since the six queries logged in the coverage table on 2026-08-13 across Reddit, Trustpilot, YouTube and the general web returned no independent review or firsthand buyer account; the contents of the Termly-hosted "Refunds" policy in the footer, whose viewer returned only its "Termly Policy Viewer" shell to an automated fetch that day; whether an annual plan is still available, given the archived guarantee's reference to "monthly or annual" members; and how the 7-day guarantee is applied in practice, since it took effect on 18 July 2026 and no refund request was tested here.
Sources: Time To Build — "Build a $10K/Month Business Selling What You Know" (official sales page) · Termly policy viewer — the "Refunds" policy linked from the Time To Build footer · 1 further source recorded in the research fileUnresolved
How much on-demand material the Masterclass Vault actually contains — the seller publishes no lesson count, no runtime and no module-by-module outline, only seven topic headings.
When the vault material was last re-recorded; the page says it was "refined across 12 cohorts" but carries no changelog or last-updated date for the content itself.
Whether the "$7,768,728" in student wins can be reconciled against anything outside the seller's private wins channel; the counting method is stated but the underlying posts are behind the paywall.
What the roughly two dozen named members paid, and which version of the product they bought — none of the quotes is dated or names a price, and several describe cohort launches.
Typical member outcomes. The six queries logged in the coverage table on 2026-08-13 (Reddit, Trustpilot, YouTube and general web) returned no independent review or firsthand buyer account, so outcomes are unestablished rather than shown to be poor.
What the Termly-hosted "Refunds" policy in the footer says — its viewer returned only the "Termly Policy Viewer" shell to an automated fetch on 2026-08-13, so it was not cross-read against the /guarantee page.
What currency the checkout actually charges. The page's markup says US$200 (with a flat A$300 for AU and NZ visitors), but no reader-visible line says so and both Circle checkout URLs returned HTTP 403 to an automated fetch on 2026-08-13, so it was not confirmed at the payment page.
Whether an annual plan is still available on request; the archived guarantee refers to "monthly or annual" members but no annual price appears on the page today.
How the 7-day guarantee is applied in practice — it took effect on 18 July 2026 and this research did not test a refund request.
Current membership headcount beyond the seller's "1,000+ builders" claim, and how that reconciles with the "850+ serious creators" figure on the 15 August 2025 capture.
Next options
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A cheaper, finite writing cohort for people whose blocker is producing content at all rather than packaging an offer. No open-ended subscription.
A one-time $999 pre-recorded course with a named instructor roster, for someone who wants a defined syllabus they can finish rather than a live membership they keep paying for.
View current company site ↗The seller's public podcast, YouTube and Instagram output is the cheapest way to test whether the teaching style suits you before paying anything. His own "Give this a miss if" block points beginners there.
View current company site ↗13 · Buyer checklist
Questions
$200 a month, read from the seller's page on 2026-08-13, where the figure appears a dozen times including as "It's $200 a month. That's about $46 a week, two dinners out. Cancel anytime, no contracts." It is a subscription, billed through Stripe from a join button pointing at timetobuild.circle.so, with no application or sales call in the way. No annual plan and no discount appears on the page today — a grep of the rendered page and its fourteen FAQ answers found no coupon field or promotional banner — although the seller's archived guarantee terms record that the membership took "monthly or annual" members before 18 July 2026. Annualised, the published price is $2,400. On currency: nothing a reader can see on the page says which dollar, but the page's own markup does — the price spans carry data-usd="200" and a geo script swaps them to "A$300/mo" for Australian and New Zealand visitors, with the swapped copy reading "You'll see A$300 at checkout. That's the same price as US$200, just billed in your own currency." Both Circle checkout URLs returned HTTP 403 to an automated fetch that day, so this was not confirmed at the payment page.
It was, and the seller says so itself: "Time to Build ran as a cohort course 12 times before it became a membership in 2026." The Wayback capture of 15 August 2025 shows "time to build 2.0" at "$5,999", "by application only", against a struck-through "TOTAL VALUE: $21,000" and "limited to 80 creators". Going further back, the capture of 15 April 2024 shows two tiers sold outright — "time to build cohort $1,499" and "the supercharged build $3,999" — plus a "split payment plan $775 x 2" on the cheaper one, for a cohort running 12 February to 15 March. What is on sale today is a different product at a different price.
Seven days, change of mind, on your first membership — with limits the sales page does not mention. The dedicated terms at timetobuild.live/guarantee ("Effective: July 18, 2026 · Last updated: July 28, 2026") state: "If you decide it's not for you, tell us within 7 days of your first payment and we'll refund that payment in full… You don't need a reason. You don't need to show us any work. A change of mind is enough." You email admin@timetobuild.live from your signup address within 7 calendar days; the refund goes to the original payment method and "normally arrive within 5 to 10 business days". The limits: it applies "only on your first ever Time To Build Membership", the membership "must start on or after July 18, 2026", "Returning or rejoining members are not eligible", and it covers membership fees only. After the window, "payments are not refundable, but you can cancel anytime". Governing law is Victoria, Australia, and the terms expressly preserve Australian Consumer Law rights.
A harder guarantee, still readable at timetobuild.live/guarantee-90-day. Members who joined before 18 July 2026 fall under the archived 90-Day "You Can't Lose" Guarantee (last updated 15 February 2026), which says outright "This is not a change-of-mind policy." It required attending "at least 50% of live calls", demonstrating "active engagement", providing "evidence of consistent" implementation and running a "Lean Launch™" before a refund could be claimed. Further back still, in the cohort era, there was no published policy at all: grepped on 2026-08-13, the 15 August 2025 capture has zero hits for "refund", "guarantee" or "money back", and on the 15 April 2024 capture the only guarantee wording is the checkout badge "Guaranteed safe & secure checkout" plus two marketing uses of the verb, with "money back" appearing solely inside a member testimonial.
Tom Noske runs the weekly call — "48 sessions per year", every Tuesday at 8:30am AEST — and answers written questions himself in the "Ask Tom" space, which the page says is "Guaranteed within 72 hours" and averaging 42 hours this year. A second named person, Daniel, described as head of student support, runs fortnightly "Live Build Sessions", "24 sessions per year". Every call is recorded and "available within 24 hours". Noske trades under his real name on LinkedIn and has run a podcast under it since 2020; his revenue claims on the page — "Grew a $400K/yr product business before teaching anyone. Three million-dollar years since." — are self-reported and were not independently confirmed by this research.
They are specific, named and unverified. The page carries roughly two dozen testimonials, each with a full name, a public handle, a niche and a dollar figure — Avinesh Patel at 77 followers, Nelson Dong at "$10.5K USD", Steven Healy at "$119.8K AUD cash collected upfront" — plus five video interviews conducted by the seller's own head of student support. That is checkable in the sense that a reader can open the handles, but every one of them sits on the seller's page, none is dated, and none states what its author paid or which version of the product they bought. The headline "$7,768,728" is described by the seller as counted from wins "a member posted in our private wins channel", which is behind the paywall. Our search sweep on 2026-08-13 — six queries across Reddit, Trustpilot, YouTube and the general web, logged in the coverage table — returned no independent review or firsthand buyer account either way.
Less than half, by design. The "Masterclass Vault" is unlocked on day one with "Nothing is drip-fed", and covers seven published topics from personal brand clarity through to automation. But the seller publishes no lesson count, no runtime and no module list for it, and the FAQ is explicit that the recurring value is elsewhere: "the reason members stay is the live weekly calls, the Ask Tom support, the ongoing mentorship and the community." The weekly call is deliberately not a fixed syllabus — "Not a pre-planned curriculum. Not theory. The answer to the problem most people inside Time to Build are facing this week." If you want something you can complete and cancel, that is the thing to weigh.
Source registry
ttb-officialSupports: The seller's own sales page, fetched and parsed section by section on 2026-08-13 (145,103 bytes). The rendered text carries "$200" twelve times, in three formulations — the repeated CTA "Start building for $200/mo", the investment block "$200 /month", and the sentence "It's $200 a month. That's about $46 a week, two dinners out. Cancel anytime, no contracts." — most of them under the line "Cancel anytime · 7-day money-back guarantee". No reader-visible line on the page names a currency, but the page's own markup does: the price spans are written as <span class="aud-swap" data-usd="200" data-aud-text="A$300/mo">, a geo script converts them for AU and NZ visitors, a hidden AU/NZ line reads "You'll see A$300 at checkout. That's the same price as US$200, just billed in your own currency.", and the page's own Meta pixel call fires InitiateCheckout as {value:200,currency:'USD'} for everyone else. It publishes the inclusion list ("Weekly live calls with Tom · 48 a year", "Live build sessions with our head of student support · 24 a year", "Direct 1:1 support from Tom (Ask Tom) · 72-hour answers", "The Masterclass Vault · Full curriculum, day one", "The Builders Toolkit", "The private community · 1,000+ builders"), four numbered bonuses (Lean Launch templates, OfferSharp, The Big Idea Extractor, quarterly challenges) plus "AI Tom" under the heading "Also included for free", the three-phase 90-day roadmap, the call time "Every Tuesday at 8:30am AEST", the support promise "Guaranteed within 72 hours · 42-hour average", the checkout note "The button takes you to our secure checkout", the founder block "Built by Tom Noske · @tomnoske · Grew a $400K/yr product business before teaching anyone. Three million-dollar years since.", the headline numbers "1,000+ students.", "$7,768,728", "Members in 87 countries.", "29 different niches", the history line "Time to Build ran as a cohort course 12 times before it became a membership in 2026", the contact address admin@timetobuild.live, and roughly two dozen named member testimonials each printed with an Instagram-style handle.
Limitations: It is the seller's marketing page and every number on it is self-reported. The "$7,768,728" is explicitly described as member-posted: "Every dollar in that number is a win a member posted in our private wins channel. Screenshots, names, handles. We count them one by one." — a private channel this research cannot open. The page publishes no lesson count, no runtime and no module list for the Masterclass Vault, and its "no questions asked" refund framing omits the eligibility limits printed on its own /guarantee page.
ttb-wayback-2025Supports: A capture of the same domain twelve months before this review, selling a different product at a different price. It advertises "time to build 2.0 / by application only", a value stack ending "TOTAL VALUE: $21,000" struck through against "$5,999", with "payment plans available" and "limited to 80 creators". It carries a "STUDENT WINS TRACKER" reading "$3,457,843.79", a community figure of "850+ serious creators", the promise "This program is specifically designed to help you 5-10x your investment in the first 3-6 months." and an application funnel ("We'll review your application within 48 hours"). A grep of the capture for "refund", "guarantee" and "money back" returned zero hits.
Limitations: A marketing page for the predecessor cohort product, not for the membership sold today. It cannot show what buyers actually paid after payment plans or application screening.
ttb-termlySupports: The destination of the "Refunds" link in the seller's footer, alongside Cookies, Privacy and Disclaimer links to the same Termly host. Its existence establishes that the seller publishes a refund policy separate from the /guarantee page.
Limitations: A logged, reproducible failure: fetched on 2026-08-13, the viewer returned only its "Termly Policy Viewer" shell with no policy body, because Termly renders the text client-side. Nothing in this review is sourced to its contents, and the refund terms quoted here come from the seller's own /guarantee page instead.
ttb-linkedinSupports: A public professional profile under the creator's real name, headlined around helping creators build personal brands, placing him in Australia. It corroborates that the person selling this membership is an identifiable individual with a continuous public professional footprint rather than a pseudonymous operator.
Limitations: Self-authored, like any LinkedIn profile. It does not verify any revenue figure claimed on the sales page.
ttb-podcastSupports: A public podcast feed under the creator's own name on a third-party distribution platform, with a catalogue ID (1508917552) issued in 2020. It is independent corroboration of a long-running public body of work predating the course, which is what the sales page's "10+ years" and "Trained on 10+ years of Tom's coaching IP" claims rest on.
Limitations: A distribution listing. It evidences output and longevity, not the quality or the results of the paid membership.