Sulu
Sulu ships 2.6 and 3.0 in lockstep, and the 3.0 line still reads like a maintenance branch.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and ClickFunnels — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
| Feature | Kit (formerly ConvertKit) | ClickFunnels |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Mkt Auto | Mkt Auto |
| Velocity score | 6.3 | 6.3 |
| Sparks · 30d | 1 | 0 |
| Top themes | email-marketing, mcp, landing-pages, creator-tools | funnel-analytics, revenue-attribution, api-surface, bot-protection |
| Last editorial update | 19h ago | 5h ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
Kit rebuilt its landing page editor, then handed the controls to an AI agent.
Kit's recent releases converge on one thing: giving creators a full publishing surface inside Kit rather than sending them to a third-party page builder. The landing page editor was rebuilt in June with 20+ templates and full control over layout, fonts and sections; custom favicons and the Creator profile to Newsletter site rename finished the job of making those pages feel owned rather than hosted. The newest release lets the Kit MCP build and edit those pages directly. Alongside runs an audience-intelligence thread - Subscriber Signals in early access - and network features letting creators request connections with each other.
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
ClickFunnels ships in batched drops — typically two named features and one bundled "Improvements" post. The recent run is dominated by measurement: orders can be filtered by the funnel that produced them, the Opt-ins tab records every opt-in a contact submits rather than one row per person, and funnel analytics gained all-time and year-to-date ranges with revenue totals across every order type. Alongside that, Under Attack Mode gained a Strong tier issuing an interactive challenge per domain to stop card-testing bots. The remainder is builder quality-of-life and reliability work.
Kit's recent releases converge on one thing: giving creators a full publishing surface inside Kit rather than sending them to a third-party page builder. The landing page editor was rebuilt in June with 20+ templates and full control over layout, fonts and sections; custom favicons and the Creator profile to Newsletter site rename finished the job of making those pages feel owned rather than hosted. The newest release lets the Kit MCP build and edit those pages directly. Alongside runs an audience-intelligence thread - Subscriber Signals in early access - and network features letting creators request connections with each other.
The Kit MCP is the axis. It arrived in May as a read-and-analyze tool - ask questions about your list, create tags or broadcasts from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor - and has now crossed into building the actual published artifact. That sequencing is deliberate: rebuild the editor as a structured, template-driven system first, then expose it to an agent, because an agent can only assemble a page that is composed of describable parts. The rename and favicon work point the same way, toward Kit as the place a creator's web presence lives rather than just where email is sent.
Expect the MCP surface to extend from landing pages into sequences and the newsletter site itself, and Subscriber Signals to move out of early access as the data layer the agent reasons over.
ClickFunnels ships in batched drops — typically two named features and one bundled "Improvements" post. The recent run is dominated by measurement: orders can be filtered by the funnel that produced them, the Opt-ins tab records every opt-in a contact submits rather than one row per person, and funnel analytics gained all-time and year-to-date ranges with revenue totals across every order type. Alongside that, Under Attack Mode gained a Strong tier issuing an interactive challenge per domain to stop card-testing bots. The remainder is builder quality-of-life and reliability work.
Two threads run underneath the cadence. The first is attribution: each of the last several feature drops answers a variant of "which funnel actually made the money", moving the product from counting contacts toward tracing revenue back through funnel steps and traffic sources. The second is surface area — the API expansion published on July 17 framed workflows, community management and bulk contact actions as reach for integrations and the AI agents built on top of them, which serves a different customer than the funnel builder the UI is aimed at. The anti-fraud tier is the defensive cost of a platform whose checkout pages are public and therefore targets.
The measurement thread has further to run: opt-in and order data are now step-level and funnel-level but not yet joined into one conversion view, which is the obvious next assembly. Whether the API push continues at the same pace is not readable from these entries — only one of the last ten touches it.
Other Mkt Auto products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Kit (formerly ConvertKit) or ClickFunnels.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and ClickFunnels are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and ClickFunnels are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
Top Kit (formerly ConvertKit) alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Kit (formerly ConvertKit) alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/convertkit for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top ClickFunnels alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ClickFunnels alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/clickfunnels for the full list with editorial commentary on each.