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Comparison · Mkt Auto
Gumloop vs Eleventy
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Gumloop and Eleventy — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Gumloop vs Eleventy: at a glance
| Feature | Gumloop | Eleventy |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Mkt Auto | Mkt Auto |
| Velocity score | 7.5 | 5.0 |
| Sparks · 30d | 1 | 0 |
| Top themes | agent platform, company brain, mcp connectors, skills as code | static-site-generator, rebrand, breaking-changes, async-templates |
| Last editorial update | 2d ago | 2h ago |
| Website | — | Visit → |
What is Gumloop?
Gumloop is turning its whole connector catalog into agent memory, one week at a time.
Gumloop launched Company Brain in early July and has widened it on almost every release since — Zendesk as a source, then permission-preserving Google Drive, then any connector in the catalog at all. The agent layer is picking up its own plumbing in parallel: organization skills sync from a GitHub repository and update as commits land, skills and connectors are manageable through the developer API (including by other agents), and agents can be DM'd directly in Slack. Models rotate through continuously, with Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 the latest, alongside bring-your-own Fireworks keys for running open models on a customer's own account.
What is Eleventy?
The v4 canary line is being renamed Build Awesome while 3.x is kept on pure maintenance.
Two lines run in parallel. The 3.x branch gets dependency-only releases — 3.1.5 and 3.1.6 explicitly ship no core code changes, after 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 failed to publish and were left as immutable dead tags. The v4 alpha train, meanwhile, is where the work is: Node minimum raised to 22.15, page.inputPathDir and page.dir removed, batched incremental builds added, and a large refactor of the Nunjucks fork onto a fully-async prerelease. The releases themselves now carry the Build Awesome name and offer an @awesome.me/buildawesome install alongside @11ty/eleventy@canary.
Gumloop vs Eleventy: editorial side-by-side
Gumloop
7.5MKT AUTO
Gumloop is turning its whole connector catalog into agent memory, one week at a time.
◆ Current state
Gumloop launched Company Brain in early July and has widened it on almost every release since — Zendesk as a source, then permission-preserving Google Drive, then any connector in the catalog at all. The agent layer is picking up its own plumbing in parallel: organization skills sync from a GitHub repository and update as commits land, skills and connectors are manageable through the developer API (including by other agents), and agents can be DM'd directly in Slack. Models rotate through continuously, with Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 the latest, alongside bring-your-own Fireworks keys for running open models on a customer's own account.
◆ Where it's heading
Two loops are closing at once. On knowledge, every connector Gumloop adds now doubles as a retrieval source, so catalog growth and Brain quality compound instead of competing for roadmap. On capability, skills are becoming versioned artifacts that live in a repository and agents are becoming things other agents can configure through the API — the platform is moving from a place you build one agent to a place agents are provisioned programmatically. Governance is following a step behind rather than leading: audit logs for Brain activity, access requests routed to approvers, per-conversation credit breakdowns, and usage-based billing for workflow AI steps.
◆ Prediction
Expect the same generalization that took Brain from fixed sources to any connector to be applied to triggers and actions, and expect the agent-configures-agent API to grow into templated provisioning so organizations can stamp out fleets rather than assemble agents one at a time.
Eleventy
5.0MKT AUTO
The v4 canary line is being renamed Build Awesome while 3.x is kept on pure maintenance.
◆ Current state
Two lines run in parallel. The 3.x branch gets dependency-only releases — 3.1.5 and 3.1.6 explicitly ship no core code changes, after 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 failed to publish and were left as immutable dead tags. The v4 alpha train, meanwhile, is where the work is: Node minimum raised to 22.15, page.inputPathDir and page.dir removed, batched incremental builds added, and a large refactor of the Nunjucks fork onto a fully-async prerelease. The releases themselves now carry the Build Awesome name and offer an @awesome.me/buildawesome install alongside @11ty/eleventy@canary.
◆ Where it's heading
v4 is accumulating breaking changes faster than it is stabilizing — three of the entries in this window announce removals or minimum-version bumps, and alpha.10 exists only to hotfix a regression alpha.9 introduced. The Nunjucks refactor is the biggest bet: making the fork fully async removes the need for async-specific template tags, but the release notes flag it as risky for existing Nunjucks users. The naming change is proceeding on the same timeline, so users tracking canary are absorbing an identity shift and an API shift at once.
◆ Prediction
Expect more v4 alphas carrying breaking removals before any beta, with the Nunjucks async refactor generating follow-up regressions; 3.x looks likely to keep receiving dependency-only patches with no core changes.
Alternatives to Gumloop and Eleventy
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 Gumloop or Eleventy.
Pimcore
Nearly every release in this window carries security hardening — Pimcore is working through an injection sweep.
Hugo
Steady feature-then-patch cadence, with security reports rising because AI tools are finding them
ClickFunnels
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
n8n
n8n's daily patch train hides the real work: hardening its MCP server into a proper auth resource.
OneSignal
OneSignal is arguing a new category into existence before showing the product behind it.
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Recent activity from Gumloop and Eleventy
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 4d agoGumloopClaude Opus 5
- 9d agoGumloopSync Organization Skills from GitHub
- 11d agoGumloopAny Connector as a Brain Source ⚡
- 15d agoGumloopDM Your Agent in Slack
- 17d agoGumloopZendesk in Gumloop Brain
- 19d agoGumloopBrain respects Drive permissions; Meta Ads connector added
- 1mo agoEleventyNunjucks fork refactored onto a fully-async prerelease
- 1mo agoEleventyNode 22.15 minimum, page path properties removed
- 1mo agoEleventyHotfix for a layout cache invalidation regression
- 1mo agoEleventyEleventy v3.1.6: Everybody wants to do Maintenance
- 4mo agoEleventyCanary warns the Eleventy name is changing to Build Awesome ⚡
- 4mo agoEleventyDead tag: this release failed to publish, use 3.1.5
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Gumloop and Eleventy?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Gumloop is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Gumloop better than Eleventy?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Gumloop is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Gumloop?
Top Gumloop alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Gumloop alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/gumloop for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Eleventy?
Top Eleventy alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Eleventy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/eleventy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.