# Fulcrum Landing Page Growth Score — YC S25

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Source: https://www.lazyweb.com/yc-s25/fulcrum
Source observed: 2026-10-15T19:04:47.774Z
Last checked: 2026-10-20T07:05:04.82+00:00
Indexed: 2026-10-15T21:25:27.767+00:00

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# Fulcrum Landing Page Growth Score

We assess Fulcrum, whose landing page is [fulcrumresearch.ai](https://fulcrumresearch.ai/), in the YC S25 Growth Score collection. Fulcrum describes its work as measuring and optimizing model performance in fuzzy domains.

[← Back to YC S25](https://www.lazyweb.com/yc-s25)

## Overall result

Fulcrum's weakest category is **Trust**. Its overall **Growth Score is 59/100**, updated **September 22, 2026**.

[Fix Trust](https://www.lazyweb.com/plans/checkout?plan=individual&source=growth_score_feature_build_fixes)

| Category | Score |
| --- | ---: |
| Trust | 48 |
| CTA | 58 |
| Value props | 58 |
| Information hierarchy | 62 |
| Mobile web | 68 |

## How Fulcrum ranks

1. [Epoch AI — 76](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/epoch.ai)
2. [METR — 73](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/metr.org)
3. [Apollo Research — 72](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/apolloresearch.ai)
4. [Transluce — 61](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/transluce.org)
5. Fulcrum — 59

## Score over time

The report includes a score-history chart comparing Fulcrum with METR, Apollo Research, Epoch AI, and Transluce. Fulcrum is the highlighted series.

## Trust — 48/100, Poor

Trust measures proof that the product is real, competent, and safe to try.

![Fulcrum landing-page capture](https://zlfyzdmohcskkucuunmk.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/sites/growth-score/site/fulcrumresearch.ai.jpg?v=2026-09-22T16%3A01%3A44.969%2B00%3A00)

The trust comparison identifies these visible signals:

| Company | Trust read |
| --- | --- |
| Fulcrum | A “Highlighted Work” benchmark chart supporting “Fable is SOTA at CIFAR Speedrun.” |
| METR | “Non-public information and model access provided by:” with Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and OpenAI logos. |
| Apollo Research | An “OUR PARTNERS” logo strip naming AI Security Institute, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon, NIST, and DeepMind. |
| Epoch AI | A “Trusted by leading publications and institutions” logo strip including Our World in Data, DSIT, the Government of the Netherlands, and other names visible in the capture. |
| Transluce | “Our Work” cards showing research output, including the essay “Some Focus Areas for Embedded Evaluations and How to …”. |

### Trust comparison

1. [Epoch AI — 82](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/epoch.ai)
2. [METR — 76](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/metr.org)
3. [Apollo Research — 72](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/apolloresearch.ai)
4. [Transluce — 58](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/transluce.org)
5. Fulcrum — 48

[Build proof section](https://www.lazyweb.com/backlog?site=fulcrumresearch.ai#opt-trust-signals) — choose proof signals and receive copy and placement for a stronger trust section.

## CTA — 58/100, Fair

This category evaluates CTA copy, size, verb, and cost-feel.

![Fulcrum CTA comparison capture](https://zlfyzdmohcskkucuunmk.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/sites/growth-score/site/fulcrumresearch.ai.jpg?v=2026-09-22T16%3A01%3A44.969%2B00%3A00)

The primary CTA is **“Get updates.”** Identified problems are:

- The small, muted button lacks visual weight.
- “Updates” is vague and does not name a payoff.
- The button sits below navigation links and is easy to miss.
- The form has no supporting microcopy.

### CTA comparison

1. [Apollo Research — 68](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/apolloresearch.ai)
2. [Epoch AI — 68](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/epoch.ai)
3. [METR — 64](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/metr.org)
4. Fulcrum — 58
5. [Transluce — 52](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/transluce.org)

[Rewrite this CTA](https://www.lazyweb.com/backlog?site=fulcrumresearch.ai#opt-cta-writing) to generate primary and secondary CTA options grounded in Fulcrum's offer and visitor objections.

## Value props — 58/100, Fair

Fulcrum's displayed headline and supporting line are:

> **Fulcrum**
>
> “We work on measuring and optimizing model performance in fuzzy domains.”

### Working

- The wording is honest, without hype or a stack of buzzwords.
- It names a real gap: measuring fuzzy traits.
- The SOTA chart supplies concrete nearby proof.

### Could improve

- “Fuzzy domains” is unclear to newcomers.
- No outcome is stated for the reader.
- Hero numbers live in the chart rather than the copy.

### Value-proposition comparison

1. [Apollo Research — 78](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/apolloresearch.ai)
2. [Epoch AI — 76](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/epoch.ai)
3. [METR — 72](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/metr.org)
4. [Transluce — 62](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/transluce.org)
5. Fulcrum — 58

## Information hierarchy — 62/100, Fair

![Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture](https://zlfyzdmohcskkucuunmk.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/sites/growth-score/site/fulcrumresearch.ai.jpg?v=2026-09-22T16%3A01%3A44.969%2B00%3A00)

The report identifies four priority issues:

1. **Get updates button:** The only conversion action is a small, low-contrast gray button buried below three paragraphs and a navigation row, making it difficult to see in a one-second scan.
2. **Navigation link row:** Five equal-weight underlined links—research, writing, careers, contact, and x—sit directly above the email capture, creating five exits before the CTA.
3. **Body paragraph stack:** Three same-weight paragraphs follow the wordmark without headline hierarchy, so no sentence clearly reads as the value proposition.
4. **Highlighted Work chart:** A dense annotated chart with tiny axis labels carries more visual weight than the CTA and is unreadable at the displayed size.

[View layout plan](https://www.lazyweb.com/backlog?site=fulcrumresearch.ai#opt-information-hierarchy) to turn these callouts into a sequenced keep, move, merge, or remove plan.

## Mobile web — 68/100, Fair

The report treats the phone experience as a first-class consideration.

![Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture](https://zlfyzdmohcskkucuunmk.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/sites/growth-score/site/fulcrumresearch.ai-mobile.jpg?v=2026-09-22T16%3A01%3A44.969%2B00%3A00)

1. **Get updates button:** It appears below the first viewport and is desktop-proportioned; it should be full-width and reachable without scrolling.
2. **Highlighted Work chart:** Axis labels and annotations become unreadable when the desktop chart shrinks to phone width.
3. **Footer link row:** Five inline text links with tight gaps create imprecise thumb targets; a stacked or collapsed menu would be preferable.

[View mobile fixes](https://www.lazyweb.com/backlog?site=fulcrumresearch.ai#opt-mobile-web) to convert these findings into a prioritized implementation checklist.

## Competitors

These competitors are inferred from product, audience, and value proposition:

1. [Epoch AI — epoch.ai — 76](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/epoch.ai)
2. [METR — metr.org — 73](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/metr.org)
3. [Apollo Research — apolloresearch.ai — 72](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/apolloresearch.ai)
4. [Transluce — transluce.org — 61](https://www.lazyweb.com/growth-score/site/transluce.org)
5. Fulcrum — 59

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