Creators, Coaches & Online Educators
Stop Renting Your Audience.
Own the Platform.
Socio Connect builds custom community platforms for creators, coaches, and online educators who want to own their community infrastructure permanently — the alternative to Circle.so and Mighty Networks for creators ready to stop paying forever and start owning.
The Platform Risk Nobody Talks About
You've built something remarkable. A community of people who pay to be part of what you've created. They're there because of you — your content, your teaching, your expertise, your energy.
But the platform they live on? That belongs to Circle. Or Mighty Networks. Or Kajabi.
And that means your community — the thing you spent years building — is one pricing change, one acquisition, one policy update away from a crisis you didn't create and can't fully control.
Circle raised prices in 2023. Mighty Networks changed its revenue share model. Kajabi added features and raised its tier pricing. Every year, the platforms creators depend on make decisions that affect creator businesses — without asking.
The solution isn't to find a better SaaS platform. It's to stop renting entirely.
What You Actually Get When You Own Your Platform
When Socio Connect builds your platform, it's yours. Not white-labeled under our brand. Not hosted on our infrastructure. Yours — the code, the domain, the member database, the content library. What that means practically:
No transaction fees
Circle takes 4% of your membership revenue. On $500,000 in revenue, that's $20,000/year going to Circle for no additional value. A custom build takes 0%.
No monthly SaaS fees
After the build, your only costs are hosting (typically $200–$500/month at your scale) and optional maintenance — not a growing subscription.
No platform risk
Your community doesn't disappear if a vendor changes terms, raises prices, or shuts down. You own the infrastructure.
No feature limitations
Your checkout flow, your onboarding experience, your content structure, your member experience — built to your exact specifications.
Your brand, completely
Not Circle's aesthetic applied to your content. Your design language, your visual identity, your experience — built from scratch.
Built for Creator Business Models
Creator community platforms have specific requirements that generic tools handle poorly:
Membership tiers
Free preview, monthly subscriber, annual member, VIP cohort — each with different access and pricing
Cohort programs
Time-based group programs with intake, progression, and graduation tracking
Live event integration
Virtual workshops, Q&As, community calls — scheduled and promoted within the platform
Content library
Video courses, audio, documents, organised by program or category — fully owned
Branded mobile app
Your app in the App Store and Play Store, not Circle's app with your name on it
Community spaces
Discussion feeds, direct messaging, mastermind pods — all within your owned platform
Affiliate and referral tracking
Member referral programs built into the platform — no third-party tools required
The Math on Ownership
Let's say you're generating $40,000/month in community revenue on Circle Pro ($89/month + 4% transaction fee).
Circle Pro — Annual Cost
$20,268/yr
- $1,068 — platform subscription
- $19,200 — 4% of $480,000 revenue
- $101,340 over five years. You own nothing.
Socio Connect — Total Cost
$85K–$115K
- One-time build — you own it forever
- Zero transaction fees on revenue
- By year two, you're ahead. By year five, you have an asset.
Year one, the economics are comparable. Year two, you're ahead. Year five, you've saved significantly — and you have an asset.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your community built your business.
Own the platform it lives on.
Strategy calls are the first step. We'll look at your current platform costs, your community size, and map out what ownership would look like for your specific business.
Apply for a Strategy Call