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Country → City
234 cities, grouped by the market people actually commute into. Gurugram and Noida share a room with New Delhi, because they share a Tuesday evening.
By verification only
The room you should
already be in.
CircleIn puts you in a small group of people doing your job, in your city. Not recruiters. Not your cousin's startup. The twelve people you would actually want to have coffee with on a Thursday.
Signing in is how we know you are you. It takes one tap and no password.
Request #4021Verified
A. Raghavan
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning · Bengaluru
- LinkedIn confirmedA. Raghavan
- Role confirmedMachine Learning Engineer
- City confirmedBengaluru
- Circle assignedMachine Learning
Added to Machine Learning · Bengaluru on WhatsApp.
138
Niches, not job boards
234
Cities with real rooms
284
Specific roles mapped
0
Ways to buy your way in
Why this exists
A network of ten thousand
is a network of nobody.
The big professional networks optimised for connections. The result is a feed of people you have never met, congratulating each other on jobs you cannot verify, in cities you do not live in.
CircleIn optimises for the opposite thing: the smallest useful group. One city, one kind of work, everyone checked. When someone in your circle says they run growth at a Series B, that has been verified against a profile with real dates on it.
You do not browse CircleIn. You get let into it, and then you talk to people.
The door
You request. We check. Then you are in the group.
There is no public sign-up. You continue with LinkedIn so we know it is you, tell us what you do and where, and every request is verified against the profile behind it before anyone is let in.
- 01
You ask
Continue with LinkedIn so we know it is you, then six quick things: your city, your company, your role, and the number to reach you on.
- 02
We verify
Every request is checked against the profile behind it before anyone is let in. That is the whole reason a CircleIn room is worth being in.
- 03
We find your room
Your city and your work decide which circle fits — a small group of people who already do what you do, where you do it.
- 04
You are added
On WhatsApp, on the number you gave us. Then it is just people talking, which was the point.
How we sort people
Three dimensions. No duplicates.
“Engineer” and “Marketing” are not categories, they are shrugs. Every member sits at one point in a structured space, so a search means something.
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Niche
138 niches across 15 families. AI is not Software Engineering, and Growth is not Marketing. Each label means one thing and appears once.
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Role + Seniority
284 specific roles, held separately from seniority. You are a Backend Engineer who is Senior — never a permanently separate species called "Senior Backend Engineer".
What that buys you
- Senior AI engineers in Bengaluru
- Growth people in San Francisco
- Product managers in Mumbai
- Founders in Tokyo
- VC partners in New York
- Backend engineers in Pune
A few rooms
Find yours.
Events by CircleIn
Eventually, everyone
is in the same room.
A group chat is a start. CircleIn organises small evenings for its circles — twelve to forty people who already do the same work in the same city, so nobody spends the first hour explaining what they do.
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Small on purpose
Capped so everyone can actually talk. When one fills, another opens rather than the room growing until nobody speaks.
02
One circle at a time
A room of AI engineers in Bengaluru, or product designers in Berlin. Sometimes a whole city, when the point is to cross over.
03
Members only
Everyone in the room has been through the same door, so an introduction is worth something.
If you do the work, there is a seat.
Requests are checked in the order they arrive. You will hear back with a decision and, if you are in, a place in your circle's WhatsApp group.