Clad LabsYC F25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

Fix Trust

Score over time

90807060504030Pylon 66 on May 19 (Wayback)Pylon 66 on Jun 21 (Wayback)Pylon 71 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Pylon 66 on Aug 3 (Wayback)Pylon 66 on Aug 28 (Wayback)Pylon 64 on Sep 14 (Wayback)Pylon 72 on Sep 22 (Live)RunLLM 40 on Apr 22 (Wayback)RunLLM 82 on May 10 (Wayback)RunLLM 82 on May 20 (Wayback)RunLLM 78 on Sep 22 (Live)Decagon 67 on Sep 20 (Live)Sierra 61 on May 22 (Wayback)Sierra 63 on Jun 14 (Wayback)Sierra 65 on Jun 29 (Wayback)Sierra 64 on Jul 7 (Wayback)Sierra 63 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Sierra 62 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Sierra 62 on Sep 20 (Live)Duckie 70 on Jun 4 (Wayback)Duckie 66 on Sep 22 (Live)Clad Labs 66 on Sep 3 (Wayback)Clad Labs 66 on Sep 22 (Live)Sep 3Sep 22
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  1. Sep 22, 202666LiveCTA −2 · Information hierarchy +1Viewing
  2. Sep 3, 202666First tracked report — strongest Mobile web 86, weakest Trust 32View →

Trust

32Poor

Proof that the product is real, competent, and safe to try.

Pylon
RunLLM
Sierra
Duckie
Trust read
Clad LabsNo visible trust signal identified.
Pylon"Trusted by 1,500+ B2B customers globally" with logo row (Airtable, Together.ai, Baseten, Fal, AssemblyAI, Braintrust)
RunLLMIncident timeline panel captioned "Real predictive detection on Herald production; sensitive details redacted."
Decagonimplicit context Decagon may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
SierraSierra Agent chat demo resolving "I don't recognize this $95 charge" and booking "Appointment booked"
DuckieMobile ticket card: "MIKE — Need a refund, product arrived damaged — 2m ago"

Value props

62Fair

Title, subtitle, hero — do they sell the product's true value?

Clad Labs’s headline sellsSupport that resolves itself.The investigation layer between your support team and engineering.

Working

  • Outcome-led headline, not features
  • Subhead names exact category position
  • Copy is short and memorable

Could improve

  • No numbers or proof anywhere in fold
  • Hero art decorates, shows nothing
  • No hint of how resolution happens

CTA

68Fair

Copy, size, verb, cost-feel — does the primary CTA earn the click?

Clad Labs
RunLLM
Decagon
Duckie

Problems

  • 'Demo' feels costly — sales call
  • Conflicts with nav's 'Get Started'
  • No product value in the click

Information hierarchy

83Strong

Does the design help or inhibit what the page is trying to say?

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Get Started nav button — Same black-pill weight as Book a Demo, splitting the fold into two competing primary actions.
  2. Right-edge dot pager — Faint low-contrast dots invite scroll-jumping past the CTA and read as visual noise near the headline.
  3. Sign In link — Sits directly beside the primary-styled nav button, adding one more exit at the highest-attention corner.

Mobile web

86Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Book a Demo button — Keeps desktop pill proportions instead of a near-full-bleed, thumb-friendly width.
  2. Eyebrow label text — Light-gray "AI INVESTIGATION LAYER" sits over the textured background at low contrast, hard to read at arm's length.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop