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Get paid by the people who love your work.

Build a members-only circle, sell single posts, book 1:1 sessions and go live, without handing your audience's private conversations to an ad network.
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Ways to earn

Six ways to earn, one place to manage them.

Mix and match. A cooking teacher might run a monthly circle, sell individual recipe videos and offer a few 1:1 sessions a week.
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Paid circles

Memberships

Monthly subscriptions or one-time passes for your circle. Members get the circle key once Stripe confirms payment.

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Paid posts

Single posts and files

Sell a song, a recipe video, a pattern or a preset on its own. A public preview shows what's inside.

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1:1 sessions

Paid video sessions

Coaching, lessons and consultations as private video calls, paid in advance and encrypted end to end.

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Live

Ticketed livestreams

Workshops, listening parties and Q&As for your circle, free or with a ticket price.

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Paid messages

Paid messages

Charge for a personal reply or an exclusive attachment in direct messages.

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Co-owned circles

Revenue splits

Run a circle with collaborators and split every sale automatically by the shares you agree.

AI persona circles

Let members ask how you think, even while you sleep.

Add an AI persona of yourself to a circle. You build it from your own words; members ask it how you think; every month you answer ten of their questions yourself, and the persona is updated with your answers. Make it a paid circle and members subscribe for the AI, your real answers and everything you share.
  • Built from your answers to 30 questions, 100 lines of your conversations, a one-page essay, and any links or PDFs.
  • Every answer is labelled AI. It never claims to be you, and never makes offers, prices or promises for you.
  • You read what it built, test it, and pause or delete it any time.

Not end-to-end encrypted. The persona's material, members' questions and its answers are read by Circles' servers and processed by Google Gemini. Nothing else in your circle is sent to the AI.

Getting paid

From first sale to payout in four steps.

1

Connect Stripe

Set up a Stripe Express account. Stripe verifies your identity and handles tax forms.

2

Set your prices

Choose subscription, one-time, per-post, per-session or ticket prices in your currency.

3

Fans pay at checkout

Buyers pay on Stripe's checkout. Access is granted only from Stripe's verified confirmation.

4

Get paid out

After the platform fee, each owner receives their share by Stripe transfer to their bank.

Fees

Keep 90% of every sale.

One platform fee of 10% by default. No monthly charge, no setup fee. Stripe's processing fee is separate and depends on the buyer's card and country.
  • No charge to create or run a circle.
  • Revenue splits between co-owners, applied to every sale.
  • Payments disabled? Paid features are switched off entirely, never faked.
$10.00
Co-owners sharing revenue
Buyer pays
$10.00
Circles platform fee (10%)
−$1.00
To you
$9.00

Stripe's card processing fees are deducted separately and vary by country and payment method. Owners can set any split that adds up to 100%. The fee shown here is the default; the exact fee is shown in your creator settings before you set prices.

Previews & privacy

Tease in public. Deliver in private.

Paid content is end-to-end encrypted like everything else private. You pick a public preview to show what's inside.
  • Video previews are capped at 5 seconds, checked again on the server.
  • Image previews are cropped and heavily blurred in your browser.
  • Buyers get the key from your device automatically, or after you approve them manually.
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Grow

Tools to grow, without spying on anyone.

Circle analytics

Page views, unique visitors, joins and revenue, counted in aggregate. Unique visitors use probabilistic counters, not per-person tracking.

Referral links

Create labelled links and see clicks, sign-ups, joins and revenue for each one.

Promotions

Promote a public circle to people browsing its category. Targeting uses public categories only.

An honest note on key delivery: automatic delivery trusts the server's word that a buyer paid. If you need protection even from the server operator, switch your circle to manual approval. Read more

FAQ

Creator questions.

Something else on your mind? Read the security guide or the privacy policy.

There's no monthly fee. Circles takes a 10% platform fee on each sale by default, and Stripe deducts its card processing fee. The fee that applies to you is shown in your creator settings before you set prices.

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Your work, your people, your income.

Open a paid circle in minutes. Connect Stripe when you're ready to sell.