Cortex AIYC F25 landing page report.
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Cortex AIhttps://cortexrobot.ai/

Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Cortex AI ranks

  1. 1.Encord74
  2. 2.Cortex AI66
  3. 3.Scale AI61
  4. 4.Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 46
Fix Trust
66Growth scoreupdated

category scores

Trust54Value props62CTA64Mobile web72Information hierarchy76
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Trust54Value props62CTA64Mobile web72Information hierarchy76

Score over time

807060504030Scale AI 62 on May 30 (Wayback)Scale AI 62 on Jun 15 (Wayback)Scale AI 49 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Scale AI 64 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Scale AI 62 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Scale AI 61 on Sep 20 (Live)Encord 71 on Jun 14 (Wayback)Encord 72 on Jun 23 (Wayback)Encord 71 on Jul 6 (Wayback)Encord 71 on Jul 18 (Wayback)Encord 70 on Jul 30 (Wayback)Encord 73 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Encord 74 on Sep 20 (Live)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 46 on Jun 9 (Wayback)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 45 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 44 on Jul 24 (Wayback)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 46 on Aug 13 (Wayback)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 44 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 46 on Aug 31 (Wayback)Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: 46 on Sep 20 (Live)Cortex AI 64 on Apr 8 (Wayback)Cortex AI 64 on Apr 18 (Wayback)Cortex AI 64 on May 18 (Wayback)Cortex AI 63 on Jun 16 (Wayback)Cortex AI 66 on Sep 22 (Live)Apr 8Apr 18May 18Jun 16Sep 22
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  1. Sep 22, 202666LiveOverall +3 · Mobile web +20 · Value props −4Viewing
  2. Jun 16, 202663Overall −1 · Information hierarchy −6 · Trust +6View →
  3. May 18, 202664CTA −5 · Trust +4View →
  4. Apr 18, 202664Mobile web −10 · Information hierarchy +6View →
  5. Apr 8, 202664First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 76, weakest Trust 48View →

Trust

54Fair

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

Cortex AI
Encord
Trust read
Cortex AI"Backed by Y Combinator" badge above the headline
Scale AIimplicit context Scale AI may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
EncordCustomer logo strip below the hero: Path Robotics, Woven by Toyota, Zipline, Pickle Robot, Toyota Research Institute, We
Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: "New Frontier data and RL environments, off the shelf" announcement banner

Value props

62Fair

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

Cortex AI’s headline undersellsThe Real World Is the Next Training Ground for Embodied AIBuilding the world's most diverse real-world, real-workplace, and industry-scale egocentric + robot dataset, accelerating our progress toward physical intelligence.

Working

  • Subhead names the actual product: the dataset
  • MolmoAct2 banner is real outcome proof
  • YC badge adds credibility above the H1

Could improve

  • H1 is an industry thesis, not a product claim
  • Zero numbers on dataset scale or diversity
  • No hero image showing the data itself

CTA

64Fair

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

Cortex AI
Encord
Scale AI

Problems

  • contact framing feels costly
  • no value promised for the click
  • generic label, ignores headline
  • two audiences split hero focus

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1234
  1. Get in touch button — Primary CTA sits at the very bottom edge, effectively below the first viewport.
  2. Five-line headline — Desktop headline scales down poorly, wrapping to five lines and pushing the CTA off-screen.
  3. Two-line announcement banner — Sticky promo bar stacks two lines above the header, eating viewport before the hero starts.
  4. Five-line subhead — Long gray paragraph wraps to five lines, adding to the vertical stack displacing the CTA.

Information hierarchy

76Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Join Operator Network button — Same size and adjacent to the primary CTA, splitting the one action into two equal-weight choices.
  2. Announcement banner — Top-of-page MolmoAct2 link is the first thing scanned and routes attention away before the headline.
  3. Social icons in header — LinkedIn and X icons are pure exits in the fold, leaking visitors off-site before any conversion.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop
#1Encordencord.com74
#2Cortex AI66
#3Scale AIscale.com61 #4Physical Intelligence rival — Sanctuary alternatives excluded; Egocentric data: surgehq.ai46