Circle Eclipse is available to everyone

Last month, we introduced Circle Eclipse and shared our vision for a new era of digital businesses.

We started with a question:

What if building your dream digital business could feel as easy as describing what you want?

Since opening up for early access, hundreds of customers have put Circle AI to work.

The response has been heartwarming!

Take a quick look:

Starting today, Circle Eclipse is available to all our customers.

You can preview Circle Eclipse before making the new experience available to your members.

1. Open your Circle community.
2. Click Preview on the banner at the top.
3. Explore the full Circle Eclipse experience in an admin-only preview. Your members won’t see any changes yet.
4. If you have custom code snippets, please go to Website → Code Snippets and follow the instructions.
5. When you’re ready, click Activate for all members. The new Circle Eclipse experience will immediately go live for everyone in your community.

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Activating should feel seamless, and there should be no impact to the content of your spaces, posts, comments, members, website, or any other aspect of your community. Eclipse is available to all customers across all plans.

On October 1, Circle Eclipse will be automatically activated for all customers who haven’t yet made the switch.

Until then, you can preview Eclipse yourself and activate it for your members whenever you’re ready.

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A note of gratitude to our team

As we shared last month, Circle AI isn’t the only new update we’re shipping with Eclipse.

You’ll notice tons of design improvements to the member experience, admin experience, and courses, which now includes a new visual curriculum layout.

Our engineering and design teams put a tremendous amount of love and care into the most subtle improvements. These include UI animations, improved spacing, consistent icons, sidebar resizing, and general speediness across the board.

Our goal is nothing less than for you and your members to feel delighted by them 😊

As I type this in the beautiful new post composer, I can’t help but feel incredibly proud of the team.

Improvements to Circle AI

A big thank you to all the customers who participated in the beta, and were incredibly thoughtful with their feedback.

We’ve made three major improvements to Circle AI based on your feedback:

Memory

Circle AI remembers important context from across your conversations, including your goals, audience, voice, offers, and decisions you’ve already made.

It can pick up where you left off, build on your past work, and every conversation compounds so Circle AI becomes more useful and helpful for you over time.

Skills

Circle AI is powered by more than 50 specialized Skills designed specifically for building, running, and growing a digital business.

It can help you structure a community, build a course, plan a launch, analyze your data, create content, configure an offer, build workflows, and much more.

These aren’t generic AI responses. Each Skill is built around a specific job and informed by best practices of what we’ve learned from helping tens of thousands of digital businesses succeed.

Projects

Projects give you a dedicated workspace for everything you’re trying to accomplish.

Bring related conversations, files, and instructions together for a launch, course, cohort, growth initiative, or any other part of your business.

Your team can work in the same Projects to share context, hand off work, and collaborate with Circle AI together. Everyone works from the same shared instructions and files.

Coming soon, you’ll be able to share chats with your team and grant select admins access to specific projects.

Important note on privacy and security

Circle AI is built with privacy and security at its core. Your conversations, content, and business data are never used to train any LLM, or shared outside the context of your own use with Circle AI. Your information remains private and protected.

Join us live on July 30 to see Circle AI in action

Tomorrow, July 30 at 12pm ET, Alexis Teichmiller and JK Sparks are hosting a live event with two of our early access customers, Rachel Starr and Jay Clouse.

They’ll walk through Circle Eclipse, share how they’re already using Circle AI in their businesses, and show you real use cases you can apply to your own.

They’re even going to build an entirely new digital business from scratch with Circle AI, live.

You won’t want to miss this one.

RSVP now

We invite you to the Circle AI challenge

Circle AI is here for everyone. Now we want to see what you build with it.

Create something new or improve something you already have, whether it’s a course, onboarding flow, member reward, launch plan, or a completely new way to put Circle AI to work.

To enter, share a short video or screenshots showing Circle AI in action, the prompts you used, and what you accomplished. Then share your entry on social and tag Circle to qualify for the main prizes.

You could win a MacBook Pro, a year of Circle Plus, Circle AI credits, swag, and more.

Join the challenge

Other updates

Live session chat controls: Admins and hosts can now disable chat for individual live rooms and live streams before going live.

Improved code snippet editor: Syntax highlighting, autocomplete, light and dark themes, and smart code linting make it easier to add and manage custom code.

Faster, more reliable member search: New search infrastructure makes it easier to find members quickly and is designed to scale as your member base grows.

Better member discovery on iOS: Improvements to accessibility, navigation, animations, and event joining make it easier for members to discover and connect with one another.

Clearer member access controls: Admins can now see how someone gained or lost access and reconnect them at either the access group or individual space level.

Paid plan upgrades: Upgrades now take effect only after payment succeeds, so a failed payment won’t disrupt a member’s existing subscription.

Event invitation preferences: Members can now choose whether they receive event invitation emails directly from their notification settings.

iOS improvements

We also shipped a few improvements toCircle’s iOS app:

• Connections are now in the Member directory
• Event creation and editing are now available in app
• Featured videos now autoplay when scrolling feed and post spaces
• Improved accessibility with better support for Voiceover and large text
• Edit attachments in chat messages
• Enhanced course lesson design and layout
• Improved avatar display in notifications
• Performance, reliability, and UI/UX improvements

Android improvements

And some improvements onCircle’s Android andCircle Plus branded apps:

• Ability to edit events directly in the app
• An embedded AI agent chat block is now available on custom screens
• New "All" segment in the notifications tab
• Performance, reliability, and UI/UX improvements
• Members can now filter the member directory using custom profile fields
• Custom HTML blocks can now open third-party apps directly
• Enlarged member contact rows across the directory and connections
• Search filter tabs with no results are now hidden
• Search sub-filters remain visible when no content matches the active filter
• Content and Moderation notification segments are now supported on Android
• Performance, reliability, and UI/UX improvements