Strategic clarity
for ambitious founders.

About us

Eklipse is a strategic partner for founders at critical inflection points.

We replace 3 months of founder time. You give us about an hour a week; we do the research, analysis and drafting that builds strategic clarity, stakeholder alignment and execution momentum.

Our founders met at The Conduit in 2023, a room full of entrepreneurs, investors and creatives. One thinks in strategy and story, the other in brand and design.

After a handful of company makeovers, from school uniforms to industrial equipment, the pattern was clear: founders needed clarity, alignment and traction, fast. So they built Eklipse to fuse strategy and design into one system.

Meet the founders

Velocity over speed

Grow faster with velocity instead of speed.

Move fast and break things

In Silicon Valley, there's a saying: "Move fast and break things." It assumes that speed is of the utmost essence, not time.

Velocity > speed

Others in the Valley are paying more attention to "velocity". Why? Because velocity requires both speed and direction.

Eklipse turns founder time into strategic leverage.

Most founders optimize for speed.

  • More meetings.
  • More hires.
  • More launches.
  • More fundraising.

The best founders optimize for velocity.

Velocity = Speed × Direction

Without direction, speed compounds mistakes. With direction, every hour creates valuable leverage.

It's not always about more people, more ideas or more capital. It's about creating the clarity, alignment and execution systems that multiply the impact of each.

Commercial narrative architecture

Eklipse installs new strategic architecture around a founder when complexity is increasing.

IDENTITY MONTH 01 Know who you are. SYSTEMS MONTH 03 Act on who you are. NARRATIVE MONTH 02 Say who you are.

Three cycles, one system

Know, say and act on who you are.

Each month builds one layer of your commercial narrative architecture. Hover over a circle, or pick a month, to see what it covers.

See the 3-month process

Inflection points

When does Eklipse come in?

When the company has outgrown the strategy and systems that got it there.

Eklipse restores leverageDefine where the company now plays, then build the story and systems that bring the team with it.

Eklipse restores leverageSharpen the positioning and build the customer narrative that sales and marketing work from.

Eklipse restores leverageTurn the founder's direction into an employee narrative and an internal guide the new team can act on.

Eklipse restores leveragePosition the new line alongside the core business and set the priorities and roadmap to launch it.

Eklipse restores leverageBuild the investor narrative and the strategic case behind it, ready for investor conversations.

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Eklipse is the strategic partner for founders & VCs scaling companies.