# Fijo

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/fijo/ · added 2026-11-07 · updated 2026-11-07

**In short.** Fijo (AI generator of Instagram Story sequences and carousels for coaches, France): US$5.5K in the last 30 days, November 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 person, as entered on the TrustMRR profile; the site names only the company FRD SYSTEM LLC. Launched 9 August 2026; still running, revenue falling.

AI generator of Instagram Story sequences and carousels for coaches · France · AI-native · solo founder · still running, revenue falling · group: Marketing and social content

- Outcome: US$5.5K in the last 30 days, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: A; headline in US dollars: 65532)
- Launch: 9 August 2026; months from launch to the outcome: 3
- Team: 1 person, as entered on the TrustMRR profile; the site names only the company FRD SYSTEM LLC
- Outside funding: None reported in any source
- Main factor: Niche
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 3, copyable pattern 3, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2B, Marketing

Links:

- Visit fijo.studio: https://fijo.studio/
- Verified revenue on TrustMRR: https://trustmrr.com/startup/fijo

**The product.** A web app that writes and designs a whole Instagram Story sequence for a coach or a seller of online courses. The user types a topic and answers 2 to 5 questions; Fijo writes the text in the user's style, picks photos from the user's library, lays out every story in the 9:16 format and opens it in a drag-and-drop editor. The user exports the images and posts them from Instagram as usual. Fijo does not post anything itself.

**Why it worked.** It sells one narrow job to one narrow group: French-speaking coaches and course sellers who sell through Instagram Stories and direct messages. The home page tells them that Canva gives design without a sales structure and ChatGPT gives text without a layout, and that Fijo does both in one step. A 3-day free trial that asks for a card turns into a paid credit plan.

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

Fijo is a story-sequence generator: a program that writes and designs a series of Instagram Stories meant to be watched in order, from a first story that catches attention to a last one that asks the viewer to send a message or buy. An Instagram Story is a full-screen picture or short video in the 9:16 format that disappears after 24 hours. Fijo sends the user's answers to a large language model, a program trained on large amounts of text that writes new text, and lays the result out on designed slides that the user can edit and export.

TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a startup's payment provider through an API key (a password that lets one program read another program's data), shows verified revenue of US$5,461 in the 30 days to 7 November 2026, 26.5% less than in the 30 days before. The monthly totals are US$3,793 in August 2026, US$7,866 in September and US$6,323 in October, and US$18,527 in all since the start. The profile says the company was founded on 9 August 2026, that one person runs it and that it is based in France. The product's site names no person, only the company FRD SYSTEM LLC, registered in the US state of Wyoming.

The revenue figures are grade A because TrustMRR reads them from Whop and Stripe, the two payment providers that Fijo uses. The founding date, the team size and the marketing channels are text that the founder typed into the profile, grade C. The page also shows earlier companies that built content tools on top of a social network, and what happened to them.

## Pricing

Fijo prices on 7 November 2026, from the company's pricing page (grade C). The page shows euros, so the US$ columns are converted at the US Federal Reserve H.10 rate of 30 October 2026, US$1.1163 per euro; the euro price is in the limit column

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 16.74 | 21.21 | 1,400 credits a month plus 100 free; 1 brand profile; EUR 15 yearly or EUR 19 monthly |
| Pro | 33.49 | 43.54 | 8,500 credits a month plus 500 free; 3 brand profiles; no watermark; Instagram stats; EUR 30 yearly or EUR 39 monthly |
| Studio | 78.14 | 99.35 | 30,000 credits a month plus 6,000 free; 10 brand profiles; separate client spaces; EUR 70 yearly or EUR 89 monthly |
| Free trial | 0 | 0 | 3 days on Starter or Pro; card required |

Starter and Pro start with a 3-day free trial, and the card is asked for when the trial starts. The pricing page says yearly billing saves 23%; computed from its own prices, the saving is 21.1% on Starter, 23.1% on Pro and 21.3% on Studio. The terms say that generating one sequence of stories or one carousel costs 300 credits, so the monthly credits (with the bonus) are enough for about 5, 30 and 120 sequences. Credit packs bought separately never expire. The terms also say a buyer may be charged in euros or in US dollars, whichever the checkout page shows.

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

A three-month-old French tool for Instagram Stories with payment-processor-verified revenue of US$18,527 in total and US$5,461 in the last 30 days, falling from its best month in September 2026

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verified revenue in the 30 days to 7 November 2026 | US$5,461 | A | TrustMRR, read from Whop and Stripe through API keys, last synced 7 November 2026. The lead card read earlier the same day showed US$5,446; the profile is refreshed often. | [1] |
| Change against the 30 days before | down 26.5% | A | TrustMRR's own growth figure for the last 30 days. | [1] |
| Yearly run rate from the last 30 days | about US$65,532 a year | calc | Calculated: US$5,461 times 12. The headline on this page uses this run rate. A falling month makes it an upper estimate. | [1] |
| Verified revenue by month | August 2026 US$3,793; September US$7,866; October US$6,323; 1 to 7 November US$545 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. October was 19.6% below September (calculated). | [1] |
| Total verified revenue since the start | US$18,527 | A | TrustMRR, all time, 7 November 2026. | [1] |
| Monthly recurring revenue and subscriptions, 7 November 2026 | US$2,234 a month; 79 active subscriptions; up 28.0% in 30 days | A | TrustMRR metric snapshots. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) counts subscription payments as a monthly amount. The other US$3,227 of the last 30 days (calculated) came from payments that the public profile does not break down. | [1] |
| Average MRR per active subscription | about US$28.28 a month | calc | Calculated: US$2,234 divided by 79. | [1] |
| Profit margin in the last 30 days | 90.0% | C | TrustMRR snapshot. The costs behind it are not shown on the public profile, so this page does not treat it as verified. | [1] |
| Founded | 9 August 2026 | C | Founder-entered date on TrustMRR. The legal notice on the site was last updated on 11 August 2026, and the first verified revenue is in August 2026. | [1, 6] |
| Team | 1 person | C | Founder-entered team size on TrustMRR. No source names the founder. The legal notice names the publisher as FRD SYSTEM LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, and the publication director as "Le représentant légal de FRD SYSTEM LLC" (the legal representative of FRD SYSTEM LLC, translation). | [1, 6] |
| Country | France, with a US company | C | TrustMRR lists country FR. The site is in French, and the company that sells the service is registered in Wyoming. | [1, 6] |
| Payment providers | Whop since 18 September 2026; Stripe before | C | Terms of sale: "Les abonnements souscrits avant le 18 septembre 2026 qui n'ont pas été transférés chez Whop restent réglés par Stripe, en euros" (subscriptions taken before 18 September 2026 that were not moved to Whop are still paid through Stripe, in euros, translation). TrustMRR lists both as verified sources. | [4, 1] |
| Prices | EUR 19, 39 and 89 a month; EUR 15, 30 and 70 a month billed yearly | C | Pricing page, 7 November 2026. About US$21.21 to US$99.35 a month at the Federal Reserve rate of 30 October 2026, US$1.1163 per euro. | [3, 8] |
| Cost of one generation | 300 credits per sequence or carousel | C | Terms of sale: "La génération d'une séquence de stories ou d'un carrousel consomme 300 crédits" (generating a story sequence or a carousel uses 300 credits, translation). Editing and exporting cost nothing. | [4] |
| AI models used | Anthropic for the text; OpenAI to analyse the user's images | C | Privacy policy: "Anthropic — génération du texte de tes stories" (Anthropic: generating the text of your stories, translation) and "OpenAI — analyse des images de ta bibliothèque" (OpenAI: analysing the images in your library, translation). | [5] |
| User counter on the home page | "Utilisé par +1000 coachs" (used by more than 1,000 coaches, translation) | C | Company claim, not checked. TrustMRR showed 79 active subscriptions on the same day; the counter may include trial accounts. | [2, 1] |
| Affiliate commission | 40% of each subscription, recurring | C | Affiliate page. Affiliates who join from 2027 get 30%. | [7] |
| Time from founding to the headline figure | 3 months | calc | Calculated: August 2026 to November 2026. | [1] |

How to read this table: a grade A value was read by TrustMRR from the company's payment providers. A grade C value is the founder's own text on the TrustMRR profile or a statement on the company's own pages. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.

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

From a founding date in August 2026 to US$18,527 of verified revenue in three months. Each entry carries its grade.

- **9 August 2026** (grade C [1]): Founding date given on the TrustMRR profile.
- **11 August 2026** (grade C [6]): The site's legal notice names FRD SYSTEM LLC, a Wyoming company, as the publisher, with Netlify and Supabase as hosts.
- **August 2026** (grade A [1, 4]): US$3,793 of verified revenue in the first month, through Stripe.
- **September 2026** (grade A [1, 4]): US$7,866 of verified revenue, the best month so far. From 18 September new subscriptions are paid through Whop.
- **October 2026** (grade A [1, 4]): US$6,323 of verified revenue. The terms of sale are updated on 26 October and describe an optional Instagram statistics connection from the Pro plan.
- **7 November 2026** (grade A [1]): US$5,461 in the last 30 days, 26.5% less than the 30 days before; US$2,234 of monthly recurring revenue from 79 active subscriptions; US$18,527 in total.

## Why did Fijo work?

### One format, one buyer

Fijo does not try to make every kind of post. It makes Instagram Story sequences and carousels for coaches and course sellers who sell through Stories and direct messages, and its French site speaks to that buyer directly.

### A sales structure inside the prompt

The generator gives each story a role in a fixed order: a hook, a short personal story, proof, the offer and a call to action. The user supplies the niche, the offer and the style; the structure comes from the product. That is the difference the home page claims against Canva and ChatGPT.

### Trial with a card, then credits

The 3-day trial asks for a card at the start and charges when it ends unless the user cancels. Plans give a monthly quota of credits, and each generation costs 300. The pricing page argues that one sale of a coaching package pays for months of the tool.

### Affiliates

Users who refer subscribers get 40% of each payment for as long as the subscriber stays. For coaches who already have an Instagram audience, this turns customers into sellers.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's legal pages and the tech stack listed on its TrustMRR profile. They are grade C.

- A web app at app.fijo.studio; the marketing site is static HTML. Both are hosted on Netlify.
- Supabase holds the database, the login and the uploaded images and generated sequences.
- Anthropic's models write the story text and OpenAI's models analyse the user's images to match them to the text.
- Payments ran on Stripe at first and moved to Whop on 18 September 2026; TrustMRR reads both.
- PostHog measures product use without cookies, and a Meta pixel measures advertising only after the user consents.
- GitHub Actions appears in the tech stack on the TrustMRR profile.

Sources: [6, 5, 4, 1]

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

Four companies in our database of failed startups sold tools for making or managing content on a social network or a design platform that they did not control. 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.

### Lightwell (2019 to 2022; funding US$500K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A no-code tool for designers to build interactive stories.
- Why it died: Adobe and Canva already offered complete design tools, and Lightwell could not show a reason to use a separate one.
- Record: 

### PostRocket (2011 to 2014; funding US$610K; cause: Product/Tech Failure)

- Promise: Better timing and content for brands' Facebook pages.
- Why it died: Facebook changed its algorithm and its API rules, and the product depended on both.
- Record: 

### Pixelpipe (2008 to 2013; funding US$2M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Post photos, videos and audio to many social networks from one place.
- Why it died: The networks built their own sharing features and closed their APIs.
- Record: 

### Automate Ads (2015 to 2018; funding US$1.5M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Simpler, automated management of Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns.
- Why it died: Facebook and Google improved their own ad tools, and the third-party layer lost its reason to exist.
- Record: 

## What changed

All four depended on a platform that could copy their feature or change its rules. Fijo has the same risk: Instagram, Canva or ChatGPT could add a story-sequence template tomorrow, and the home page itself names Canva and ChatGPT as the alternatives.

Two things differ. First, Fijo does not need Instagram's permission for its main job: it produces image files that the user posts by hand, so an API change does not stop the product. Second, a large language model now writes the text that a designer or a copywriter used to write, which lets one person sell a finished sequence for about the price of a design app subscription. The predecessors raised between US$500,000 and US$2 million; no source reports funding for Fijo, and TrustMRR shows US$3,793 of revenue in its first month.

## Can one person copy Fijo now?

**Verdict: Yes, in another niche or language.**

The parts are ordinary: a language model API, a template renderer, an editor, a database with login, and a payment provider. What Fijo adds is a fixed sales structure for one group of buyers who sell on one platform. The falling revenue in October and November shows that keeping customers after the first month is the hard part.

1. Pick one group that sells through one content format, and learn the structure that their best posts follow.
2. Put that structure into the prompt, so the user only supplies the topic, the offer and the style.
3. Output finished, editable files instead of posting through the platform's API.
4. Start with a short trial that asks for a card, and give paying users a monthly credit quota.

**What is still open.** The same sequence approach for other formats and groups: LinkedIn carousels for consultants, TikTok scripts for local shops, WhatsApp status updates for small sellers, or story sequences in languages other than French and English.

## What could go wrong for Fijo?

- **Revenue is falling.** Verified revenue was US$7,866 in September 2026, US$6,323 in October and US$5,461 in the 30 days to 7 November, and TrustMRR shows a fall of 26.5% against the 30 days before. Only US$545 arrived in the first 7 days of November. Monthly recurring revenue rose 28.0% in the same period, so the fall is in the payments that are not monthly subscriptions, which the public profile does not break down.
- **Trust signals on the home page.** The home page says "Utilisé par +1000 coachs" (used by more than 1,000 coaches, translation), while TrustMRR showed 79 active subscriptions on 7 November 2026; the counter may include trial accounts, and no source gives a sign-up count. The three testimonials carry a name or an Instagram handle and a letter in place of a photo; they were not checked.
- **Income claims in the sample content.** The sample sequence on the home page, "Généré pour : coach business" (generated for a business coach, translation), contains lines such as "J'ai fait 12k€ avec 3 stories" (I made €12K with 3 stories, translation) and "10k€/mois" (€10K a month). These are example outputs written for a coach, not a claim about what Fijo's users earn, and the terms say "Nous ne garantissons ni résultat commercial, ni performance publicitaire" (we guarantee no sales result and no advertising performance, translation). The pricing page argues that one coaching sale pays for months of the tool.
- **Instagram data and planned features.** From the Pro plan, a user can connect an Instagram professional account through an authorisation granted at Meta; Fijo then stores story statistics and the replies that other people send to those stories (their username, Instagram ID, date and message) for 12 months, and deletes them when the account is disconnected. The home page lists as "Bientôt" (coming soon) a feature to analyse competitors' story sequences and one that turns an Instagram video link into a sequence; they were not live on 7 November 2026. The Studio plan is described as "Pour les ghostwriters & agences qui gèrent plusieurs comptes" (for ghostwriters and agencies that manage several accounts, translation); Fijo makes the content, and the user posts it.
- **Dependence on model providers.** The privacy policy names Anthropic for the text of every story and OpenAI for the image analysis. A price rise, a policy change or an outage at either provider reaches every generation, and the higher plans are sold partly on access to a stronger model.
- **Competition.** The home page names Canva and ChatGPT as what its buyers already use. On this site, aiCarousels and Dalea AI also make Instagram content with AI; Fijo is narrower, with Story sequences only and a French-speaking coaching market.
- **Who is behind it.** No source names the founder. The TrustMRR profile says one person runs the business from France, and the legal notice names only the company FRD SYSTEM LLC in Wyoming. TrustMRR lists Instagram and TikTok as the marketing channels; the home page loads a Meta advertising pixel, but no source gives the advertising spend, so the main channel is not known for certain.

## Sources

1. TrustMRR: Fijo, public markdown profile, synced 7 November 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/fijo.md (grade A). Read the markdown profile. Revenue, MRR and subscriptions are read from Whop and Stripe through API keys (grade A); the description, founding date, team size, country and channels are founder-written (grade C).
2. Fijo home page: Des stories qui t'amènent des clients, en 2 minutes — https://fijo.studio/ (grade C). Read in full, 7 November 2026. Source for the product description, the user counter, the testimonials, the sample sequence and the planned features.
3. Fijo pricing page: Tarifs — https://fijo.studio/tarifs/ (grade C). Read in full, 7 November 2026, including the monthly prices stored in the page's data attributes. Source for the plans, credits and trial.
4. Fijo: Conditions générales de vente, updated 26 October 2026 — https://fijo.studio/cgv/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the credit cost per generation, the move from Stripe to Whop, the currencies and the Instagram connection.
5. Fijo: Politique de confidentialité — https://fijo.studio/confidentialite/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Supabase, Netlify, Whop, Stripe, PostHog and Meta, and for the data kept from a connected Instagram account.
6. Fijo: Mentions légales, updated 11 August 2026 — https://fijo.studio/mentions-legales/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the company name, its state of registration and the hosts.
7. Fijo: Affiliation — https://fijo.studio/affiliation/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the 40% recurring commission.
8. US Federal Reserve: Foreign Exchange Rates, H.10, release of 2 November 2026 — https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/current/ (grade A). Read the euro row. US$1.1163 per euro on 30 October 2026, used for the price conversion.
9. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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