Updates

Circle Eclipse is now available to all customers, offering a fresh experience that you can preview before activating for your members. It brings design improvements across member and admin experiences, plus a new visual curriculum layout for courses. Circle AI has been enhanced with memory to remember your context, over 50 specialized skills tailored for digital businesses, and project workspaces for better collaboration. Additional updates improve live session chat controls, code snippet editing, member search, and app experiences on iOS and Android.

• Preview and activate Circle Eclipse at your own pace without affecting your current community content
• Circle AI remembers your goals and past conversations to provide smarter, personalized assistance
• Access specialized AI skills to help with community building, course creation, launches, and more
• Use Projects to organize work and collaborate with your team seamlessly
• Benefit from improved app features and member management tools for smoother community engagement

Circle launches Circle AI, your new partner to build, run, and grow your community business faster by turning your ideas into ready-made structures in minutes. Explore a redesigned course builder with visual learning paths, plus a unified Circle Inbox to manage all community messages in one place. Discover 2.0 connects you with motivated members via a new marketplace, while Circle Studios offers a full-service partnership for top creators to focus on content and leave operations to experts.

Smaller updates include improved course experiences, enhanced collaboration tools, and various UI improvements across the platform.

• Save time by turning community ideas into complete setups with Circle AI
• Deliver engaging courses using visual pathways and AI-assisted creation
• Manage all member communication efficiently with the unified Circle Inbox
• Reach your ideal audience through the upgraded Discover marketplace
• Focus on creativity while Circle Studios handles growth and operations

Circle introduces public webinars with live chat that allow anyone to join, chat, and react during live streams without needing an account. This feature helps you engage a wider audience and grow your community through events like AMAs and product launches. Plus, branded apps now include new ready-to-use templates and a redesigned native sign-up flow that keeps members engaged from their first tap. Smaller updates improve billing options, paywall management, AI agent analytics, and audio player features across web and mobile apps.

• Host public webinars where guests can chat and react in real time
• Launch branded apps faster with new audio, video, and AI agent templates
• Guide new members through a native, customizable sign-up flow
• Choose new billing intervals like biennial and bimonthly for paywalls
• Access detailed AI agent performance analytics and enhanced audio players

Circle MCP lets you connect your AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude directly to your community data. You can query real-time member and engagement data, take actions like inviting members or creating tags, and integrate with other tools all from one workspace. AI agents now personalize responses using member profile fields, making interactions feel more relevant. Plus, a new AI agents analytics dashboard helps you track engagement, resolution rates, and time saved.

RSVPs can now be restricted to specific access groups while keeping events visible to everyone. Other updates include new paywall workflow triggers and chat message reporting options. iOS app improvements make searching, quizzes, and chat navigation easier.

• Ask your AI tool live questions about members and spaces to get instant insights.
• Use AI prompts to automate community tasks like tagging and messaging.
• Personalize AI interactions based on member profile data for better engagement.
• Monitor AI agent performance with detailed analytics to improve support.
• Control event participation with RSVP restrictions tied to access groups.

Discover where your members are with the new interactive member map that shows member locations by city or region, helping you connect your community locally. Create video screen recordings directly within Circle to share tutorials and walkthroughs without leaving your post. Plus, enjoy upgrades to Email Hub workflows, customizable upsell pages with video support, enhanced account security with two-factor authentication, and improvements to iOS and Android apps for smoother experiences.

Key features for your community:

• Member map clusters nearby members for easier local connections.
• Record up to 30-minute videos combining camera and screen with instant preview and publishing.
• Email Hub triggers let you automate follow-ups based on email opens and link clicks.
• Customize upsell pages fully, including video, and track performance with detailed analytics.
• Enable two-factor authentication for member accounts and manage active sessions securely.