--- title: "Connect Circle to Surefire Local Platform - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Member Completed Course Section\" fires in Circle, your agent runs \"Add message\" in Surefire Local Platform." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-surefire-local-platform" --- # Connect Circle to Surefire Local Platform When **Member Completed Course Section** fires in [Circle](https://apiant.ai/connections/circle), your agent runs **Add message** in [Surefire Local Platform](https://apiant.ai/connections/surefire-local-platform). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Circle **20** triggers Circle **27** actions Surefire Local Platform **15** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Circle and Surefire Local Platform to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Circle can start in Surefire Local Platform - When **Member Completed Course Section** in Circle then **Add message** in Surefire Local Platform - When **New Access Group** in Circle then **Add group** in Surefire Local Platform Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Circle and Surefire Local Platform ## Triggers and actions 20 triggers · 42 actions - Trigger **Content Approved** Triggers when a moderator approves reported (flagged) content in your Circle community. - Trigger **Content Flagged** Triggers when a piece of community content (a post, comment or message) is reported for moderation. - Trigger **Content Rejected** Triggers when a moderator rejects reported content (a post or comment) in your Circle community. - Trigger **Member Completed Course Section** Triggers when a member completes a section of a course in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Access Group** Triggers when a new access group is created in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Comment Posted** Triggers when a new comment is posted in your Circle community, optionally limited to one space or post. - Trigger **New Event Created** Triggers when a new event is published in your Circle community, optionally limited to one event space. - Trigger **New Event RSVP** Triggers when a member RSVPs yes to the selected Circle event. - Trigger **New Member Active Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription becomes active in Circle. - Trigger **New Member Added** Triggers when a new member joins the Circle community. Optionally includes invited members who have not finished setting up their profile, or only members with chosen tags. - Trigger **New Member Canceled Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription is canceled in Circle, returning the canceled subscription with its member and paywall details. - Trigger **New Member Paid Charge** Triggers when a community member is charged successfully (a new paid charge appears in Circle). - Trigger **New Member Past Due Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription becomes past due. - Trigger **New Member Refunded Charge** Triggers when a member's charge is refunded, fully or partially, in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Post** Triggers when a new basic post is published in your Circle community, optionally limited to one space or space group. - Trigger **New Space Created** Triggers when a new space is created in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Tagged Member** Triggers when a member tag is applied to a community member or contact in your Circle community. - Trigger **Quiz Failed** Triggers when a member fails a course quiz in your Circle community. Requires Circle's Data API add-on. - Trigger **Quiz Passed** Triggers when a member passes a quiz in a course lesson. - Trigger **Quiz Submitted** Triggers when a member submits a quiz in a Circle course lesson. - Action **Add Member to Access Group** Adds an existing community member, identified by email or member ID, to an active access group in your Circle community. - Action **Add Member to Space** Adds an existing Circle user to a space by email. If the person is not yet a member of the community, they are added to the community too and emailed about it. - Action **Add Member to Space Group** Adds an existing community member, by email, to a space group and to every space in that group. Does nothing if they are already in the group. - Action **Create Comment** Creates a comment on a Circle post, or a reply to an existing comment, optionally authored as another community member. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a non-member contact (lead) in your Circle community from an email address. The contact appears in your audience for email marketing but has no login or community access. - Action **Create Course Lesson** Creates a lesson at the end of a course section in your Circle community, with optional content, status and media settings. - Action **Create Course Section** Creates a new section at the end of a course space. The section starts with no lessons. - Action **Create Event** Creates an event in a Circle event space, with its schedule, location, RSVP and notification settings, and optional recurrence, ticket price and invitations. - Action **Create Post** Creates a post in a Circle basic space, with a title, rich-text content, author and publishing options. - Action **Find Member** Finds a community member by their exact email address, including invited members who have not finished setting up their profile. - Action **Has Member Tag** Checks whether the community member with a given email address has a given member tag, and returns true or false along with the member's id and tags. - Action **Invite Member** Invites a person to your Circle community by email, creating their Circle account if needed, and optionally adds them to spaces, space groups and member tags. Returns the new community member. - Action **Is Member of Space** Checks whether a community member, identified by email, belongs to a chosen space and returns their space membership details. - Action **Is Member of Space Group** Checks whether a community member, identified by email, belongs to a space group, and returns their membership details when they do. - Action **Mark Course Lesson as Completed** Marks a course lesson as completed for a member of the course space, identified by their email address. - Action **Remove Member** Removes a member from your Circle community by deactivating their membership and canceling their running paid subscriptions. Their posts and comments are kept, and inviting the same email again restores the membership. - Action **Remove Member From Access Group** Removes a community member, identified by member ID or email, from an access group. - Action **Remove Member From Event** Removes a member's RSVP from a Circle event, identified by the member's email. The attendee record is kept with its RSVP set to no. - Action **Remove Member From Space** Removes a community member, identified by email, from a space. The person stays a member of the community. - Action **Remove Member From Space Group** Removes a member from a space group and from every space in that group. They stay a member of the community. - Action **RSVP Member to Event** Adds a community member, identified by email, to an event. The member is RSVPed directly when the event auto-RSVPs invited attendees; otherwise they are invited. - Action **Send Direct Message** Sends a direct chat message to a Circle community member, identified by email, optionally as a reply in a thread. - Action **Start a Group Chat** Sends a message to a group of community members in a group chat, starting the group chat if it does not exist yet. The message is sent as the community member the connection authenticates as. - Action **Tag Member** Applies a member tag to the community member with the given email. If the member already has the tag, it is kept. - Action **Untag Member** Removes a member tag from the community member with the given email. The tag itself stays in the community; only its assignment to that member is removed. - Action **Update Event** Updates an existing event in a Circle event space. Only the fields you fill in are changed; everything else on the event stays as it is. - Action **Update Member** Updates an existing Circle community member's profile, profile fields, moderation flag and preferences, and adds them to spaces, space groups and member tags. Existing memberships and tags are kept. - Action **Add backlink** Creates a backlink record for a client, saving the source, the linking URL and the date it was referenced. - Action **Add client** Creates a new client in Surefire Local with its business contact details and enabled services. - Action **Add group** Creates a new group in Surefire from an existing client, recording the user who created it. - Action **Add message** Creates a content-calendar message (a WordPress or third-party blog post) for a client, as scheduled, pending approval, or draft. - Action **Add order** Creates a content order for a Surefire Local client, including its title, due date, word limit, keywords and briefing. - Action **Create Lead** Creates a lead (customer contact) for a client location in Surefire Local. - Action **Get message** Returns a content-calendar message (social post) for a client, including its comments and the per-network posts it was published as. - Action **List backlinks** Returns all the saved backlinks of a client, with each backlink's source, link and referenced date. - Action **List groups** Returns the client groups in the account, optionally filtered by national client or group client. - Action **List orders** Returns the orders placed for a client. - Action **List tags** Returns all tags defined for a Surefire location. - Action **List users** Returns the list of active users, optionally filtered to one client. - Action **List Yext reviews** Returns the Yext reviews for a location, optionally filtered by rating, keyword, source, comment status and date range. - Action **Update client** Updates an existing client's business details, contact info and service flags. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update message** Updates an existing content message (post), such as its text, subject, status, photos or SEO details, and returns the result reported by Surefire. ## Each app on its own - [ **Circle** A modern community platform for creators.](https://apiant.ai/connections/circle) - [ **Surefire Local Platform** All-in-one marketing platform helping local businesses manage their leads, online reviews, business listings...](https://apiant.ai/connections/surefire-local-platform) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Circle - [ **Circle to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-hubspot) - [ **Circle to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-salesforce) - [ **Circle to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-slack) - [ **Circle to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-google-sheets) - [ **Circle to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-gmail) - [ **Circle to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-google-calendar) ## More into Surefire Local Platform - [ **HubSpot to Surefire Local Platform** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-surefire-local-platform) - [ **Salesforce to Surefire Local Platform** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-surefire-local-platform) - [ **Slack to Surefire Local Platform** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-surefire-local-platform) - [ **Google Sheets to Surefire Local Platform** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-surefire-local-platform) - [ **Gmail to Surefire Local Platform** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-surefire-local-platform) - [ **Google Calendar to Surefire Local Platform** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-surefire-local-platform) Questions ## Circle and Surefire Local Platform, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Circle? Any of Circle's 20 triggers in the catalog, including Member Completed Course Section, New Access Group, New Comment Posted and New Event Created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Surefire Local Platform when something happens in Circle? Any of Surefire Local Platform's 15 actions, including Create Lead, Update client, Update message and Add backlink. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Surefire Local Platform to Circle? Surefire Local Platform has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Circle. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Surefire Local Platform's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Circle or Surefire Local Platform? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Circle and Surefire Local Platform without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.