Take your creator business to the next level
The force behind the world’s most successful creator businesses is open for your business.
Apply to Circle StudiosYou bring the audience, we'll build the business
Circle Studios partners with top creators to turn their audience into a highly profitable community-centric creator business. We can build the experience, run the operations, and grow your revenue so you can focus on serving your audience.
Unlock the revenue stream you've been sitting on
Your audience doesn't just want more content from you — they want you to help them achieve a transformational outcome. We can help you deliver this transformation.
Led by the minds behind the world's most successful community businesses
Our founding partners have built highly successful community businesses for creators like Tiago Forte, David Perell, and Amy Nelson. You can be next.
Founding Partner
Will Mannon
Built and scaled flagship cohort programs for the creator economy, shaping how leading writers, builders, and educators turn audience into community.
Founding Partner
Dan Sleeman
Over a decade of building the operational backbone for courses, accelerators, and creative communities. Brings a craftsman's eye to making live programs run like clockwork.
Founding Partner
Will Mannon
Built and scaled flagship cohort programs for the creator economy, shaping how leading writers, builders, and educators turn audience into community.
Founding Partner
Dan Sleeman
Over a decade of building the operational backbone for courses, accelerators, and creative communities. Brings a craftsman's eye to making live programs run like clockwork.
Tap into next level access and distribution
We do more than just help you build your business. As a Studios partner, you're eligible for special placements on Circle Discover, stages at our summit, campaigns across our channels, and access to six figure sponsorship and promotional opportunities.
Is Circle Studios right for you?
Circle Studios is a serious, long-term partnership — and we only work with a small number of creators each year. So before applying, it's worth knowing whether this is the right fit for you. If the following is true, you're in the right place:
You've built an engaged audience over the years.
Typically, this means hundreds of thousands of followers across platforms, with a meaningful email list.
Your audience is starting to outgrow what you currently sell them.
They keep asking you for more. That could be new programs, real community, ways to go further with you.
You're too busy serving your followers to focus on growing your business.
You don't have the time and/or the desire to design programs, hire a team, run operations, or figure out pricing from scratch.
You want a long-term partnership, not just a one-off service.
You're open to building a long-term, revenue-share partnership rather than paying for done-for-you work.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk.
Is Circle Studios right for you?
Circle Studios is a serious, long-term partnership — and we only work with a small number of creators each year. So before applying, it's worth knowing whether this is the right fit for you. If the following is true, you're in the right place:
You've built an engaged audience over the years.
Typically, this means hundreds of thousands of followers across platforms, with a meaningful email list.
Your audience is starting to outgrow what you currently sell them.
They keep asking you for more. That could be new programs, real community, ways to go further with you.
You're too busy serving your followers to focus on growing your business.
You don't have the time and/or the desire to design programs, hire a team, run operations, or figure out pricing from scratch.
You want a long-term partnership, not just a one-off service.
You're open to building a long-term, revenue-share partnership rather than paying for done-for-you work.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk.
Ready to apply?
We're working with a small number of partners this year. If you're a fit, we'd love to meet you.
Applications are reviewed personally by our founding partners.
We'll respond within a few days.
Frequently asked questions
Circle Studios partners with creators and experts to build digital businesses. We help you build products—like premium live cohorts, self-paced courses, live workshops, memberships, and communities—and design the infrastructure and systems to sell and deliver these products.
You bring the expertise and your audience's trust. We design the program, run the operations behind it and help you sell it.
It's usually a good fit when three things are true:
1. People trust you and ask you for more than free content.
2. You want to build something that lasts, not a one-off launch.
3. But you don't have the time or team to build and run it yourself.
Most partners have a large, engaged audience on social media, YouTube, a newsletter, or an existing community. Engagement and demand matter more than follower count.
If your audience reaches you another way, such as through speaking, a professional network or a business you already run, please tell us in your application.
Not necessarily. Some partners come to us with nothing built yet. Others already run courses, memberships, or communities and want to grow or rebuild them. Both work.
However, it's a huge plus if you have existing offers we can grow and build on top of.
We work on a revenue share basis. That incentivizes us to focus on building something people keep buying in the long run instead of only focusing on delivering a project.
The exact terms depend on what we’ll be building together. We’ll agree on them before a partnership is finalized.
We start with how much time you actually have and where your time makes the biggest difference.
If you have limited hours, we'll work around that. But we will need your commitment on your areas of expertise.
For most of our partners, they often find the most leverage teaching, giving feedback, or hosting live sessions. We handle the rest of the work for you, such as the marketing and operations.
We test the offer before building the full product. That can mean us having conversations with your audience, running a campaign to build a waitlist, or testing a small segment of your audience if they're willing to buy.
We'll gather insights and feedback from these executions which will inform what your audience really wants.
Yes. We build everything under your brand and even write copy in your voice, whenever appropriate.
Nothing goes to your audience without your approval. The partnership agreement will lay out in detail how we treat everything that we build together.
Our team has built programs for creators including Tiago Forte, David Perell, Maya Raichoora, and Azul Wells.
Across 50+ programs and 7,000+ students, we've worked in fields as different as AI, writing, mental fitness, finance, retirement, and industrial automation. You may apply regardless of what industry you belong to.
Programs we build together run on Circle. If you're on another platform, we'll help you plan and make the move to Circle (with as little headache as possible for you).
We can work seamlessly with your team (if you have any members) and stick to your preferred platforms and tools, unless we have a strong recommendation.
Our founding partners read every application, and you'll hear back from them within a few days.
If it looks like a fit, we'll set up a call to learn more about you, your audience, and what you want to build. If we both want to keep going, we'll look at the opportunity in more depth and send a proposal.
Once we agree, we start with a kickoff call and get a plan going to build and grow your digital business.