Course-promotion funnel.

What it looks like

Course-promotion funnels are usually layered on top of an AI-tool promotion or affiliate funnel. The post sells the "I figured out how to do X" story. The pitch is often not the X itself; it is the $200 course, $40/mo Discord, or "DM me for the framework" offer.

The detection is rhetorical and structural. The post never includes the actual mechanism — only the outcome and the offer. The supportive comments are testimonials about the course, not about X. The OP's history is dominated by other courses, other Discords, and the same call-to-action language.

How the scanner catches it

• The scanner reads the OP's post history for "I teach," "join my community," "DM for framework," "free training," "limited spots," and surfaces the pattern as a single-purpose seller account.
• Reply chorus: comments that praise the course-as-product (rather than the underlying topic) get flagged when they're disproportionately positive and short.
• The verdict model names the playbook explicitly when the post structure matches, rather than returning only a generic suspicious label.

Surface markers

Exact phrases and patterns the scanner reads as evidence. These aren’t sufficient on their own — a real-person comment can sound this way too — but they push the verdict toward the pattern when they cluster with the structural flags above.

Where it shows up