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Your landing page’s weakest score is CTA.

Fix CTA

Score over time

90807060504030Mercor 75 on Jun 25 (Wayback)Mercor 76 on Jul 14 (Wayback)Mercor 77 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Mercor 74 on Aug 12 (Wayback)Mercor 59 on Aug 28 (Wayback)Mercor 57 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Mercor 54 on Sep 20 (Live)Surge AI 46 on Jun 9 (Wayback)Surge AI 45 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Surge AI 44 on Jul 24 (Wayback)Surge AI 46 on Aug 13 (Wayback)Surge AI 44 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Surge AI 46 on Aug 31 (Wayback)Surge AI 46 on Sep 20 (Live)Scale 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)Prime Intellect 74 on Jun 23 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 76 on Jul 14 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 75 on Jul 22 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 74 on Aug 8 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 74 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 72 on Sep 3 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 74 on Sep 20 (Live)Handshake AI 69 on Jul 6 (Wayback)Handshake AI 69 on Sep 22 (Live)hillclimb 54 on Apr 19 (Wayback)hillclimb 52 on Jun 10 (Wayback)hillclimb 57 on Sep 22 (Live)Apr 19Jun 10Sep 22
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  1. Sep 22, 202657LiveOverall +5 · Trust +12 · Value props +10Viewing
  2. Jun 10, 202652Overall −2 · Trust −8View →
  3. Apr 19, 202654First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 58, weakest CTA 42View →

CTA

42Poor

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

enterprise@hillclimb.com
hillclimb
Prime Intellect
Scale AI
Handshake AI
Mercor

Problems

  • no button or input anywhere
  • mailto link buried in body text
  • cold email is a costly ask
  • no action verb, no visual weight

Trust

56Fair

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

hillclimb
Prime Intellect
Handshake AI
Trust read
hillclimb"We're backed by Tier 1 VCs, Jeff Dean, Paul Graham, Amjad Masad, and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, and
Mercorimplicit context Mercor may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Surge AI"New Frontier data and RL environments, off the shelf" announcement banner
Scale AIimplicit context Scale AI may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Prime IntellectCustomer logo grid with CASE STUDY links: ramp, NVIDIA, Zapier, character.ai, Goodfire, Arcee, Browserbase
Handshake AIConsole screenshot showing signed receipt detail with DID, result hash, and "verified offline" fields

Information hierarchy

58Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Email link CTA — The primary action is a plain underlined mailto buried mid-paragraph — no button weight, invisible to a one-second scan.
  2. Hiring links block — Two underlined job links sit directly below the enterprise CTA at heavier visual weight, pulling recruits-focused attention away from the revenue action.
  3. Body text wall — Four same-weight paragraphs stack with no subheads or emphasis, forcing linear reading to find what hillclimb sells.

Mobile web

62Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Inline email link — The only conversion action is a text link buried mid-paragraph — no tappable button anywhere on the page.
  2. Mission paragraph block — Four consecutive prose paragraphs fill the fold with desktop-density text and no action to break them up.
  3. Job listing links — Underlined text links are small tap targets stacked close together, easy to mis-tap with a thumb.

Value props

68Fair

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

hillclimb’s headline undersellshillclimbTraining data for recursive self-improvement

Working

  • Names the real product: training data
  • Elite backer proof for lab buyers
  • Two concrete focus problems listed

Could improve

  • Zero numbers or scale anywhere
  • RSI jargon over buyer outcome
  • Buyer promise buried in paragraph 4