# Eclipse

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/eclipse/ · added 2026-11-11 · updated 2026-11-11

**In short.** Eclipse (Content platform with AI visibility tracking for agencies and marketing teams, United Kingdom): US$8K a month, September 2026. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: 1 founder; the interview header lists 1 employee, and the About page says one founder and eight AI agents. Launched August 2026; still running.

Content platform with AI visibility tracking for agencies and marketing teams · United Kingdom · AI-native · solo founder · still running · group: Marketing and social content

- Outcome: US$8K a month, September 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: D; headline in US dollars: 96000)
- Launch: August 2026; months from launch to the outcome: 1
- Team: 1 founder; the interview header lists 1 employee, and the About page says one founder and eight AI agents
- Outside funding: None stated; the About page says 100% bootstrapped
- Main factor: Niche
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2B

Links:

- Visit geteclipse.co: https://geteclipse.co/

**The product.** A paid platform for agencies and marketing teams that turns research into cited articles. It collects sources on a canvas and drafts articles with an AI assistant. It publishes approved articles to a CMS. Every week it checks whether AI assistants name the customer's brand.

**Why it worked.** The product does one specific job for agencies and marketing teams. Its pricing page states one plan at £795 a month with no tiers. Mark Ridgeon said in an interview that the first sale came from a conversation, before any website or product existed.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Eclipse is a platform that turns buyer research into approved B2B articles. It publishes them to a CMS (content management system, the software that runs a website's pages). It also measures AI visibility, which is how often AI assistants such as ChatGPT name a brand when a buyer asks for a shortlist. Its customers are agencies and go-to-market (marketing and sales) teams. The company's own pages describe one plan with no feature tiers.

Mark Ridgeon is named as founder on the company's About page and in a Starter Story interview dated 23 September 2026. The About page says Eclipse is run by one founder and eight AI agents. The interview text, written as Ridgeon, says he spent years as a fractional COO (a part-time operations executive). The interview header gives August 2026 as the start. The UK company register shows Eclipse Intelligence Limited incorporated on 24 February 2026.

The headline figure comes from one source. In the interview text, written as Ridgeon, he said that Eclipse brings in around US$8K a month. No payment processor, press piece or second date confirms it, so it is grade D. The company's counters of articles, teams and users also have no outside source.

## Why did Eclipse work?

### It sells one narrow job to agencies and marketing teams

The interview text, written as Ridgeon, names the buyers as content and growth leads in agencies and B2B companies. It says the system covers research, article, CMS publishing and a measure of AI visibility. His advice in the interview is "Pick one buyer."

### It charges one monthly price for the whole system

The company's pricing page states one plan at £795 a month and no feature tiers. Ridgeon said in the interview that keeping one plan and one loop was a good decision.

### The first sale started as a conversation with nothing to click

The interview text says a consultant in a Slack group asked for help with organic reach. They talked it through before any website existed. Ridgeon wrote that he would again sell the job to be done before the interface exists.

### It publishes into the CMS tools teams already use

The home page lists WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot, Contentful, Wix, Ghost and Google Docs as publishing targets. It also lists Notion, Google Drive and Search Console as inputs. The company says nothing goes live without the customer's approval.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's About page and the interview. They are the company's and the founder's own statements, grade C.

- The About page says the first version stitched together ChatGPT, Zapier and a few forms. The aim was to earn visitors without paying for Google Ads.
- The About page says that first version was thrown away. Eclipse was rebuilt from scratch with one workspace per client kept apart.
- The About page says the company runs with eight AI agents. Each owns a part such as product, security or documentation. The founder says he reviews everything before production.
- The agencies page says Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, Google, DeepSeek and Grok are all in Eclipse. The results page says buyer questions go to ten AI engines every week.
- Ridgeon said in the interview that agency workers can drive Eclipse through MCP from ChatGPT, Claude and similar hosts. MCP is a standard way for an AI agent to call another program's functions.
- The interview says the specific software tools used to build it were not detailed.

Sources: [4, 9, 5, 1]

## Who tried this before Eclipse, and why did they fail?

Three companies in our database of failed startups sold marketing software to businesses. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Metigy (2014 to 2022; funding US$14.0M cash burned; cause: No market need)

- Promise: An AI marketing assistant for small businesses that analysed social media and recommended content and ad spend.
- Why it died: The record page names 'No Market Need' as the primary cause and 'Ran Out of Cash' as the secondary one.
- Record: 

### Infoharmoni (2010 to 2013; funding US$2.0M cash burned; cause: Competition)

- Promise: One dashboard that joined the marketing tools of online shops and measured campaigns.
- Why it died: The record page says it could not set itself apart in a crowded market of marketing tools.
- Record: 

### Argyle Social (2009 to 2013; funding US$2.5M cash burned; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A social media marketing tool that linked to marketing automation platforms such as Pardot and Marketo.
- Why it died: The record page says it lost visibility against firms with far larger marketing budgets.
- Record: 

## What changed

The three companies sold a dashboard or an assistant that joined marketing tools. Their record pages describe a crowded market, larger rivals or, for Metigy, a lack of market need. Eclipse sells research, drafting, publishing and measurement as one plan, and it adds a weekly check of AI assistants' answers.

Two things differ in the sources. Eclipse says it takes drafts from the customer's own research and rules, and it measures whether AI assistants name the brand. Both claims come from the company's own pages. The sources show no outside check of either claim.

## Can one person copy Eclipse now?

**Verdict: Partly. The structure can be copied, and the results are not shown.**

A solo founder can copy the structure: one buyer, one monthly price and a first sale before the product exists. No outside source shows that the structure produces the reported revenue. The company's own counters are the only evidence of customer use.

1. Pick one buyer with one job, such as agencies that must prove content results to clients.
2. Sell the job in a conversation before building the interface, in a community the buyers already trust.
3. Publish one price with no tiers, and state the notice period.
4. Use your own product to produce your own marketing, as the About page says Eclipse does.

**What is still open.** Any narrow professional group that already pays several tools to do one job and cannot defend the result to a client.

## How much revenue does Eclipse make? The numbers, graded

One founder claim of about US$8K a month in September 2026 for a company started in 2026. Everything else is the company's own pages and a company register entry

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue per month, September 2026 | about US$8K | D | The interview text, written in the first person as Mark Ridgeon, says "Today we bring in around $8K/month." Interview dated 23 September 2026. One source, one date. | [1] |
| Company incorporated | 24 February 2026 | A | UK company register entry for Eclipse Intelligence Limited, private limited company, status active. The register states that it does not check the accuracy of what is filed. | [6] |
| Start of the business | August 2026 | D | The interview page header says "started August 2026". The date in the header is not tied to a person who wrote it. | [1] |
| Price | £795 a month, one plan | C | The company's pricing page states one plan. The home page and the pricing page state the same price. | [3, 2] |
| Team | 1 founder | C | The About page says "Run by one founder and eight specialised AI agents". The interview header lists 1 founder and 1 employee. | [4, 1] |
| First sale | before a website or platform existed | D | The interview text, written as Ridgeon, says a business consultant asked in a Slack group for fractional consultants. It gives no date and no amount. | [1] |
| Outside funding | none stated | C | The About page shows the words "100% BOOTSTRAPPED" and "2026 LAUNCHED ECLIPSE". No source names an investor. | [4] |
| Articles produced in 2026 | 2,000+ | C | The company's counter on its home, pricing and results pages. No outside source and no method stated for this counter. | [2, 3, 5] |
| Teams and people using it | 35 teams, 300+ people | C | The company's counter on its home and results pages. The page does not say how many teams pay. | [2, 5] |
| AI visibility change, first 11 accounts | 34% more ChatGPT mentions after 90 days | C | The company's own measure. The results page says each account is compared with its own first week, without a control group. | [5] |
| Time from start to the figure | 1 month | calc | Calculated: August 2026 (interview header) to September 2026 (interview date). | [1] |

How to read this table. Grade D is one founder claim with one date. Grade C is a statement on the company's own pages. Grade A is the company register's own entry. No revenue value is confirmed by a payment processor.

## Pricing

Eclipse price read from the company's pricing page on 11 November 2026 (grade C). The price is in pounds, not US dollars

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| One plan, everything included (price in GBP) |  | 795 GBP | one brand workspace; agencies get isolated workspaces per client |

The pricing page states one plan at £795 a month with no feature tiers. It states no minimum contract and 30 days' notice to cancel. The plan is bought through a booked 30-minute call, not a sign-up form. The page says agencies can ask for a one-month pilot.

## When did Eclipse launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From incorporation in February 2026 to a reported US$8K a month in September 2026. Each entry carries its grade.

- **24 February 2026** (grade A [6]): Eclipse Intelligence Limited is incorporated in England and Wales.
- **August 2026** (grade D [1]): The interview header gives August 2026 as the start of the business.
- **Date not stated** (grade D [1]): The first sale comes from a Slack group conversation, before a website or product exists.
- **23 September 2026** (grade D [1]): Starter Story publishes the interview. The interview text says revenue is around $8K a month.
- **11 November 2026** (grade C [3]): The company's pricing page still shows one plan at £795 a month and a booked call as the way to buy.

## What could go wrong for Eclipse?

- **What is not verified.** The headline figure rests on one interview text. It says Eclipse brings in around $8K a month, with one date, 23 September 2026. The interview writes dollars while the price is in pounds, and no conversion is stated. A payment-processor profile or a second interview would confirm it. A search found no press piece about Eclipse and no price from a sale.
- **Counters without an outside source.** No source outside the company supports the counters on its pages. They show "2,000+ cited articles in 2026", "35 teams" with "300+ people", "97% publish without a rewrite" and "3,200+ AI engine responses analysed". The pages do not say how many of the 35 teams pay. At the pricing page's £795, 35 paying teams would be £27,825 a month, which is more than the figure Ridgeon stated in the interview. The company register shows incorporation on 24 February 2026, and the interview header gives August 2026 as the start.
- **Testimonials.** The results page shows one quote from a named founder of a company called ClimateWorks and two quotes marked "Anonymous by request". The same page says clients do not hand out logos or named quotes. No source outside the company ties any of them to a paying customer.
- **The interview text is partly third-person.** Parts of the interview are first-person answers. The build section is written in the third person ("Mark Ridgeon built Eclipse by ...") and says the software tools were not detailed. The header says 1 employee, while the About page says one founder and eight AI agents.
- **AI-drafted Reddit replies.** The plan includes "Reddit monitoring and responses". The company's Reddit page says the AI drafts a reply "as you rather than as an assistant", posted from the customer's own connected account. The page says a person approves every reply and that drafts carry no pitch and no links. It does not say that readers are told a reply was drafted by AI. One anonymous agency quote on the results page says the agency sells "Reddit management" to its clients.
- **The founder's own outreach.** Ridgeon said in the interview that outbound to agencies "sits with Instantly" once the product is ready for prospects. He said link building is founder pitches to sites that already cover similar tools, with no bought links. The interview gives no volume for the outbound messages.

## Sources

1. How I Started A $8K/Month B2B Content Platform For Agencies, Starter Story, 23 September 2026 — https://www.starterstory.com/stories/geteclipse-co (grade D). Read in full. Founder interview. Source for the monthly revenue, the first sale, the start date in the header and the team header.
2. Eclipse home page, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/ (grade C). Read in full. The company's own page. Source for the product, the counters, the price and the CMS list.
3. Eclipse pricing page, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/pricing/ (grade C). Read in full. The company's own page. Source for the plan, price, notice period, pilot and one testimonial.
4. About Eclipse, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/about/ (grade C). Read in full. The company's own page. Source for the founder, the first version, the AI agents and the bootstrapped statement.
5. Eclipse customer results page, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/customer-results/ (grade C). Read in full. The company's own page. Source for the counters, the 90-day measure and the testimonials.
6. Eclipse Intelligence Limited, company overview, Companies House, read 11 November 2026 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17049739 (grade A). Read in full. UK company register entry. Source for the incorporation date and the company status.
7. Eclipse terms of service, last updated 31 August 2026, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/terms-of-service/ (grade C). Read the operator section. It names the company and its registration number.
8. Eclipse privacy policy, last updated 9 August 2026, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/privacy-policy/ (grade C). Read the operator and AI sections. Names the company and says the product uses AI model providers.
9. Eclipse page for agencies, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/agencies/ (grade C). Read the section on AI models. Source for the model providers offered inside the product.
10. Eclipse Reddit page, read 11 November 2026 — https://geteclipse.co/reddit/ (grade C). Read in full. The company's own page. Source for how Reddit replies are drafted, approved and posted.
11. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Record pages read on the website on 11 November 2026. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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