Patent WatchYC F25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

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Score over time

8070605040Amplified 66 on May 6 (Wayback)Amplified 67 on May 19 (Wayback)Amplified 66 on Jun 13 (Wayback)Amplified 66 on Aug 25 (Wayback)Amplified 68 on Sep 22 (Live)Patlytics 71 on Apr 8 (Wayback)Patlytics 72 on May 29 (Wayback)Patlytics 71 on Jun 12 (Wayback)Patlytics 70 on Jul 1 (Wayback)Patlytics 71 on Aug 30 (Wayback)Patlytics 72 on Sep 22 (Live)IPRally 66 on Apr 19 (Wayback)IPRally 66 on Apr 30 (Wayback)IPRally 61 on May 10 (Wayback)IPRally 63 on Aug 25 (Wayback)IPRally 71 on Sep 22 (Live)Solve Intelligence 64 on Apr 12 (Wayback)Solve Intelligence 66 on May 16 (Wayback)Solve Intelligence 67 on May 29 (Wayback)Solve Intelligence 68 on Jul 2 (Wayback)Solve Intelligence 66 on Jul 12 (Wayback)Solve Intelligence 68 on Aug 25 (Wayback)Solve Intelligence 70 on Sep 22 (Live)DeepIP 49 on Aug 30 (Wayback)DeepIP 71 on Sep 22 (Live)Patent Watch 64 on Sep 22 (Live)Sep 22

Trust

52Fair

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

Patent Watch
Patlytics
DeepIP
IPRally
Solve Intelligence
Trust read
Patent WatchSEP Mapping claim-chart product UI with "Claim Element", "Standards Evidence", "AI Analysis" columns and "Meets" status
AmplifiedNo visible trust signal identified.
Patlytics"TRUSTED BY" logo strip with Panasonic, JASCO, Aspen Aerogels, AUO, Stradling
IPRally"RATED 5 STARS ON G2" badge with five stars above the headline
Solve IntelligenceAnnouncement bar: "Bringing LexisNexis® Global Patent Litigation Data into Solve Intelligence Workflows"
DeepIP"Trusted by 500+ law firms and in-house patent teams worldwide" with a customer logo strip (Dexcom, Constellium, Dickins

CTA

62Fair

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

Patent Watch
Amplified
Patlytics
Solve Intelligence

Problems

  • demo booking feels costly
  • no CTA in the hero itself
  • casing drift: Demo vs demo
  • small nav-sized button on desktop

Mobile web

64Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Sticky pill CTA — "Book a demo" shares the pill with a slogan, halving the tap target and covering the feature copy beneath.
  2. Fundraise announcement banner — "PatentWatch has raised $3.2M" spends prime fold space on investor news with no visitor benefit or link.
  3. Truncated feature tabs — "Prior Art & Vali..." and "Portfolio Analy..." clip mid-word, making the tab labels unreadable on the phone column.

Value props

68Fair

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

Patent Watch’s headline undersellsAI for Patent Intelligence.Build defensible claim charts, assess essentiality and validity, and find the patents that matter.

Working

  • Subhead names real practitioner jobs
  • Product demo shows a live claim chart
  • "Defensible" signals rigor to IP buyers

Could improve

  • H1 is a category label, not a claim
  • Zero numbers or proof points in fold
  • No emotional payoff (time saved, risk)

Information hierarchy

72Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Funding announcement banner — Full-width green banner outranks the headline in the scan path and communicates nothing about what the product does for the visitor.
  2. Floating pill CTA — "Book a demo" pill duplicates the header CTA and sits on top of the claim-chart demo table, obscuring the very evidence meant to persuade.
  3. Header nav links — Six links (Home, Features, Statistics, News, Login) all lead away from the demo booking and outnumber the single conversion path.
  4. Subheadline placement — Value-prop sentence sits far right and detached from the headline, breaking the left-anchored reading flow of the fold.