Celestial Sites • Circle.so BuildsYour community deserves a space people actually want to be in
Too many online spaces feel like entering
into a noisy, overwhelming, warehouse
Too much, too fast, no sense of where to go
I build communities on Circle that feel like sanctuaries, calm, clear, and easy to move through from the moment your members step inside.
From €999
The problemYou've been inside those communities.
You know exactly what's wrong.
You join with good intentions
Maybe you paid for it.
You log in, hit a wall of posts, see a course library with seventeen options, get three notifications, and quietly close the tab. By week two, you've forgotten it exists.
Because so many online spaces are built to hold content, not people.
And you've already decided yours won't feel like that. You just need to build it with someone and somewhere that makes that possible.
Or maybe this is you
You've already built something.
It's just living in six different places.
A WhatsApp group for quick updates. A Facebook group because that's where everyone was. A course platform over here, a folder of links you email out every Monday, a calendar invite for the live call, and you're somehow supposed to hold all of that together while actually showing up for your community.
And the notifications. Every time you open WhatsApp you're hit with a load of messages from the group. Or you're trying to keep track of who said what across three different platforms and you can never fully switch off because your community and your personal life are living in the same spaces. There's no boundary. There's no container. It's just, always on.
Maybe your group is buzzing and active and you love your people, but this still isn't how you wanted it to feel. You wanted to build something. Not manage a notification inbox across six apps.
Maybe it's quieter. Members who joined with good intentions but drifted because they never quite knew where to go or what was expected of them. You send a message to a group that's half-silent and wonder if anyone's actually there.
Either way, active or quiet, loud or still, scattered isn't sustainable. And your members deserve better than a WhatsApp group, however much they like you.
Your people don't want more noise. They want one calm, clear place that belongs to you, where everything is already there, and their phone isn't going off every time they open it.
That place exists.
And with me it can be built with ease.
The philosophySanctuaries,
not warehouses
I build with a simple principle: every space should feel like an arrival, not overwhelm. Calm. Navigable. Clear. The kind of place where your members know exactly where they are, what's available to them, and what to do next, without having to figure any of it out.
As someone who is neurodivergent and works in energetics, I feel the architecture of a space before I intellectualise it. I know what a cluttered room does to the nervous system , and I know how a well-considered one can make someone feel genuinely welcome.
That's not a soft skill. It's the whole job.
In a landscape full of noise, clarity is a luxury. Minimalism is a gift to your community. And an intentional, spacious build is one of the most meaningful things you can offer the people who choose to show up in your world.
How I work
Practical, strategic, and something else entirely
Every build I do is informed by two things working at the same time.
The first is craft, the architecture, the navigation, the copy, the brand alignment, the structural decisions that make a space feel calm and considered from the moment someone arrives.
The second is less easy to define. I work with your higher self and your business guides throughout the build, holding the intention that what we create together calls in exactly the right people, at exactly the right time. I want your space to work energetically as well as practically.
For those who want to take it a step further, I also offer a portal activation session, an energetic activation and magnetisation of your space for your dream clients and community members. The same process I offer for websites, brought into your Circle build.
This part is entirely optional. If it resonates, wonderful. If it's not your thing, the build stands completely on its own. But for those it does resonate with, it's the part my clients tend to mention first when they talk about working with me.
"I had the most beautiful guided Portal Activation with Ciara. It's such a unique experience — to acknowledge the energy of your space and honour it as an expression and extension of your own soul's purpose. I am so grateful and can't recommend Ciara's soul-led work enough."
- Psychic Medium Liz
And at the heart of it all
Simplicity as the foundation
I specialise in making complexity simple. Businesses with many moving parts, multiple offers, courses, membership tiers, resources, live events, can become genuinely overwhelming to navigate if the architecture isn't considered carefully. I see that overwhelm before it happens.
My neurodivergent brain is wired to notice immediately when a platform has too many places to go, when the navigation isn't obvious, when the cognitive load is quietly building before a member has even found what they came for. What might take someone else several iterations to identify, I spot in the structure as we build it.
The result is a space that holds everything your business needs without asking your members to carry the weight of its complexity. Clear without being sparse. Full without being overwhelming. Navigable without being oversimplified.
That's not just a design philosophy.
It's how I see.
The platformWhy Circle, and why it's the platform I build on
I've looked at the alternatives. There are plenty of platforms that do some of what Circle does. But Circle is the only one I've found that does all of it, without asking you or your members to compromise.
Here's what that means in practice:
It works for any kind of community. An intimate group of twenty people having deep conversations. A learning portal with multiple courses and hundreds of members. A hybrid space that holds live events, recorded content, community discussion, and resources all in one place. Circle doesn't ask you to choose, it holds all of it, cleanly, without the architecture collapsing under the weight of it.
It grows with you. You're not going to outgrow it. Whether you're launching your first community or scaling something that's already working, the platform expands to meet you. You're not going to hit a ceiling and have to migrate everything in two years.
The member experience is genuinely great. This matters more than any feature list. Circle is calm, navigable, and easy to use from the moment a new member arrives. It has a native app so your members can engage on their own terms. Notification preferences are controlled by the member, so they're not being pulled into your space against their will, they're choosing to show up.
It keeps everything in one place. No sending your members to YouTube for the video, to a separate course platform for the content, to email for the link, to a different app for the community chat. One space. One link. Everything there.
It's built for creators, not corporations. The interface is clean, the customisation is meaningful without being overwhelming, and the team behind it are actively developing it, so it keeps getting better.
And when your community lives on Circle rather than inside a Facebook group or a WhatsApp chat, you own it. Your space doesn't disappear if a platform changes its rules or decides your content violates a guideline you didn't know existed. But honestly, that's almost the least interesting reason to choose it. The experience it creates for your members is the real reason.
Another thing worth knowingA membership doesn't need
to be big to be meaningful
Twenty members at €49 a month is nearly €12,000 a year. Forty members is close to €24,000. And unlike a course or a one-to-one offer that requires you to keep selling to keep earning, a membership compounds. Every month you add members you're not starting from zero — you're building on what's already there. The people who joined in month one are still paying in month six. In month twelve. Sometimes well beyond.
Get the structure right from the start, a space that's calm, easy to navigate, and genuinely worth showing up to, and retention does a lot of the work for you.
That's not a guarantee. But it's a significantly better foundation than launching into something chaotic and hoping people stay anyway.
On a planet of over eight billion people, there is already a community waiting for what you're building. They just need somewhere to gather. You don't need thousands. You need a handful of your people, and a space worth arriving into.
Who is this forThis is for you if...
⇢ You're ready to launch and you want to build it once, properly
No existing platform. Just a vision, a community you're ready to invite in, and the knowledge that you want it to feel right from the moment they arrive.
⇢ You're running something across too many platforms and it's wearing you out
WhatsApp, Facebook, email, a course platform — and none of it feels cohesive. You want one home your members can actually settle into.
⇢ You've outgrown where you are and you need somewhere that can hold more
Your current platform is limiting you. You're ready for something that grows with you without losing what makes your community feel like yours.
⇢ You want to build a membership but you don't have a content library ready
Good. You don't need one. More on that below.
Whether you're building a live membership, a learning portal, or a hybrid of both, if you want your people to arrive somewhere that actually feels like somewhere, this is for you.
A note before you talk
yourself out of it
You don't need content.
You need a date.
The thing that stops most people from launching isn't the platform. It isn't the price. It's the quiet, persistent belief that they don't have enough yet. Enough content. Enough recordings. Enough to justify asking people to show up.
Here's what I know from experience: your founding members aren't joining for a library. They're joining for you.
When I launched my own membership I had nothing waiting for them. No courses. No resource vault. No welcome video recorded four times until it felt right. I had a calendar of upcoming live sessions and a date for the first one.
That was it.
My founding members joined anyway
Because what people are looking for right now isn't a content library they'll bookmark and never open. They want live connection. They want to be in the room with you, ask a question, feel like they're part of something that's actually happening. A recording they can catch later is a bonus. It was never the point.
Start with one live call a month. Build the library as you go. Keep it simple enough that it's sustainable for you — because if it's not sustainable for you, it won't be consistent for them, and consistency is what makes a community feel like home.
You're not behind.
You're just starting.
And if you do have pre-recorded content ready, courses, resources, a library you've been building. Circle holds all of it beautifully.
This isn't about doing less. It's about knowing that what you have right now is already enough to begin.
What we build together
Everything your community needs to open its doors,
built in a day
Full Circle setup
Built from scratch or migrated from where you are now.
Space architecture, rooms, sections, and navigation
Designed so members always know where they are and what to do next.
Membership tiers and access levels
Free, paid, or multi-tier, paywalls configured and tested.
Member onboarding flow
The welcome experience your members receive the moment they arrive.
Brand alignment throughout
Colours, fonts, cover art, and imagery applied so the space feels unmistakably yours.
Course or content structure
Your library scaffolded and ready to fill, whether you're launching with content or building as you go.
Community guidelines and space copy
The words your members read that set the tone before anything else does.
Portal activation session
An optional energetic activation of your space to magnetise your dream clients and community members. Offered as an optional addition for those it resonates with.
Post-launch support
Seven days of post-launch email support, followed by a call one week after your launch, to go through anything that's come up, make sure you feel confident, and close out the build properly."
How it worksFrom booking to open doors, here's what to expect
Step 01 — You book your Circle Build
You book your Build, we’ll meet to secure your date and you'll receive your pre-build guide, a short intake that walks you through everything I need before we start. Nothing complicated, nothing overwhelming.
My diary typically books two to three months in advance, so if you have a launch date in mind it's worth securing your spot early. The good news is that time works in your favour, it gives you space to get clear on your vision, gather your brand assets, and arrive on build day completely ready.
Step 02 — We prepare together
In the days before your build I'm available for questions, structure advice, and anything you need to feel ready. You won't arrive on the day wondering if you've forgotten something. That's what this phase is for.
Step 03 — I build
My complete attention on your space. By the end of it you have a working, beautiful, navigable community, ready for your first members to arrive with ease.
Step 04 — You open your doors
With a full walkthrough recording, seven days of email support from launch, and a call one week in to go through anything that's surfaced. You understand your space, you can manage it, and your members arrive somewhere worth staying.
What people sayThe work speaks, but they say it better
These testimonials are from website and portal clients. Platform Architecture builds are new, but the experience of working together, and what gets built, is the same.
"Ciara's own intuition, creativity, and spiritual gifts, coupled with being so hugely tech savvy, I could have complete confidence in her work from the outset."
The investmentReady to build your sanctuary?
Your Circle community, built around what you actually need.
No two communities are quite the same. Some need a beautifully structured home for one membership. Others need multiple tiers, courses, events, automations, content libraries and a whole ecosystem behind the scenes.
Your build is scoped around your community.
Circle Community Builds start from €999
We'll begin with a discovery call to talk through what you're creating, what you need Circle to do, and what you already have in place. From there, I'll recommend the simplest structure that will work well for you and give you a clear quote before we begin.
Full Circle build · Follow-up call · 7 days support
Your core Circle build
A straightforward build from €999 can include:
Circle setup and configuration
Community architecture and navigation
Up to 5 core spaces
One membership or access level
Member onboarding flow
Your existing branding applied throughout
One simple course or content area scaffolded, if required
Basic mailing-list integration
Full walkthrough recording of your finished community
Seven days of post-launch email support
You'll know exactly what's included in your build before we begin.
Need something more substantial?
Depending on what you're creating, your custom build can also include:
Multiple memberships, tiers and paywalls
Additional spaces and more complex community architecture
Courses, programmes and resource libraries
Content and video uploads
Migration from another community platform
Existing member imports
Automations and workflows
Email and external platform integrations
Events and calendars
Circle website and landing pages
Custom styling and code
Launch setup and support
Additional post-launch support
We'll work out what you genuinely need before I quote, rather than adding complexity for the sake of it.
Before we build
You'll receive my pre-build client dashboard, which guides you through everything you need to gather and decide before your build begins.
You'll also have access to me during business hours throughout the planning phase, so you're not left trying to figure out the structure by yourself.
Included with your build
Portal activation session (Optional)
An energetic activation created specifically for your new community space.
Welcome video script
A simple framework to help you welcome your members clearly and in your own voice.
Launch communication kit
Editable emails and a suggested timeline for inviting your community in.
90-day engagement framework
A practical framework for your first three months, so you're not staring at your lovely new community wondering what on earth to do with it.
Circle Community Builds from €999
Your final investment will depend on the size and complexity of your community.
After our discovery call, you'll receive a clear scope and quote with no surprise extras.
Have a community in mind? Let's talk about what you're building.
Your Questions, Answered
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When you book you'll receive your pre-build client dashboard — a guided resource that walks you through everything step by step. In short: your brand assets, a clear sense of your community's purpose and structure, your membership tiers and what each one includes, and admin access to your Circle account. The clearer you arrive, the more we build in a day. If you're still at the stage of figuring out what you want your membership to be, it's worth getting clear on that before you book — I can guide the architecture, but the vision needs to come from you.
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My Architecture Days typically book two to three months in advance. If you have a specific launch date in mind, securing your spot early gives you the full lead time to prepare — and means your build day arrives feeling like a moment you're ready for rather than one you're scrambling toward.
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No — and this is one of the most common things that stops people from launching even though they’re ready. I started my own membership with nothing but a date and a calendar of upcoming live sessions — and I've retained somewhere between 80 and 90% of my founding members since, through a platform migration and everything in between. What your founding members are joining for is you — not a content library. We build the architecture first and you fill it as you go. If you do have content ready, Circle holds it beautifully. But it's not a requirement to begin.
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A 50% deposit secures your project. The balance is due a week before your build begins.
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I'd recommend checking their current plans directly — here is a link to circle.so/pricing. I'll also advise on the right plan for your specific needs during our pre-build planning phase. The professional plan will be perfect in most cases.
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Your build includes seven days of post-launch email support and a follow-up call one week after launch — enough time to get through your first member invitations and any immediate questions. Beyond that, my goal is to hand you a space you feel genuinely confident managing yourself. Your walkthrough recording is designed for exactly that — and it's also a useful resource for any VA or team member you bring in later. If you do need additional hands-on time after your build, I'm available for one-off sessions — a half day or an hourly edit session — but I don't offer ongoing retainer support. I'd rather empower you to own your space than have you dependent on me to run it.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African Proverb