Orca AerospaceYC F26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Orca Aerospace ranks

  1. 1.Orca Aerospace68
  2. 2.Cognitive Space67
  3. 3.Antaris64
  4. 4.Quindar62
  5. 5.Kayhan Space62
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Score over time

7570656055Quindar 59 on Apr 2 (Wayback)Quindar 60 on Apr 10 (Wayback)Quindar 68 on May 3 (Wayback)Quindar 62 on Sep 1 (Wayback)Quindar 62 on Sep 20 (Live)Antaris 63 on Apr 2 (Wayback)Antaris 62 on Apr 10 (Wayback)Antaris 63 on May 6 (Wayback)Antaris 63 on May 29 (Wayback)Antaris 61 on Jun 11 (Wayback)Antaris 62 on Aug 17 (Wayback)Antaris 64 on Sep 20 (Live)Cognitive Space 67 on Apr 8 (Wayback)Cognitive Space 66 on Apr 16 (Wayback)Cognitive Space 67 on May 12 (Wayback)Cognitive Space 65 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Cognitive Space 67 on Sep 20 (Live)Kayhan Space 61 on Jun 12 (Wayback)Kayhan Space 63 on Jun 29 (Wayback)Kayhan Space 62 on Sep 20 (Live)Orca Aerospace 68 on Sep 20 (Live)Sep 20

Trust

48Poor

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

Orca Aerospace
Cognitive Space
Trust read
Orca Aerospace"Backed by Y Combinator" badge below the CTA
Quindar"Play Video" demo card captioned "MONITOR, CONTROL, AND AUTOMATE SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS"
AntarisLaptop screenshot showing Antaris's real mission-visualization UI with orbital constellation plots
Cognitive SpaceLogo bar with DARPA, SDA, L3Harris, In-Q-Tel, NASA, SwRI, and Terran Orbital
Kayhan SpaceAnnouncement bar: "our new free-to-use spaceflight intelligence exchange: Satcat!"

CTA

72Fair

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

Orca Aerospace

Problems

  • 'Request' feels costly, not receiving
  • competes with header 'Talk to us'
  • no payoff implied by 'briefing'

Value props

72Fair

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

Orca Aerospace’s headline sellsMission Control, OnboardOrca Aerospace builds the AI spacecraft operator that flies with the vehicle. It understands the mission, watches the systems, and acts when the ground can't.

Working

  • Headline compresses the value in 3 words
  • Subhead names what the AI actually does
  • "When the ground can't" hits real fear

Could improve

  • Zero numbers or proof points in the fold
  • Hero art decorates, doesn't demonstrate
  • Headline needs domain knowledge to parse

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Uncollapsed nav link row — Full desktop link row stacks under the logo, forming a tall double-decker header that pushes the hero down.
  2. Oversized wrapping headline — "Mission Control, Onboard" wraps to three tall lines, pushing the email form and CTA below the first viewport.
  3. Five-line hero paragraph — Long supporting paragraph adds to the vertical stack that displaces the "Request a briefing" button off-screen.

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Talk to us button — White pill outshines the blue 'Request a briefing' CTA, splitting the fold between two competing asks.
  2. Nav anchor links — Four equal-weight links (Problem, Our Answer, Founders, Join Us) leak attention before the email capture.
  3. Email address field — Dark low-contrast fill blends into the background, weakening the start of the conversion flow.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop