Circle
A new era for digital businesses
Circle is a community platform for digital businesses that combines community spaces, courses, events, payments, email marketing, and a website builder under a single branded experience. It addresses the need to consolidate tools that would otherwise be spread across separate services for discussion, content delivery, audience communication, and commerce.
Core capabilities include discussions, messaging, courses, events, live streams, member directory, gamification, and analytics. Circle AI provides AI summaries, AI agents, and workflows, alongside integrations, APIs, headless access, and MCP. Payments support one-time purchases, memberships, and recurring subscriptions with branded checkout. Email Hub handles broadcasts, marketing automation, forms, and audience CRM. The website builder offers a visual builder for sites, landing pages, and sales pages. Native iOS and Android apps are available with push notifications and custom screens.
Circle is aimed at creators, coaches, educators, non-profits, SaaS companies, and faith organizations. It is packaged as a free 14-day trial with no credit card required, followed by Professional, Business, and Scale plans with seat-based and usage-based limits on admins, moderators, spaces, storage, and AI credits. Circle Plus offers custom pricing with a branded app, dedicated support, and negotiated limits. Email Hub is an optional add-on charged on top of the community plan.
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