Sentient OSYC F26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Sentient OS ranks

  1. 1.Sentient OS74
  2. 2.Highlight AI72
  3. 3.Cluely70
  4. 4.Dot by New Computer36
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Score over time

9080706050403020Highlight AI 60 on May 21 (Wayback)Highlight AI 72 on Jul 17 (Live)Highlight AI 68 on Oct 11 (Wayback)Dot by New Computer 30 on Mar 10 (Wayback)Dot by New Computer 30 on Jun 29 (Wayback)Dot by New Computer 36 on Aug 13 (Live)Cluely 74 on May 4 (Wayback)Cluely 73 on May 17 (Wayback)Cluely 68 on Jun 2 (Wayback)Cluely 69 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Cluely 72 on Jul 14 (Wayback)Cluely 47 on Aug 5 (Wayback)Cluely 70 on Aug 13 (Live)Sentient OS 60 on May 3 (Wayback)Sentient OS 64 on Jun 8 (Wayback)Sentient OS 74 on Sep 20 (Live)May 3Jun 8Sep 20
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  1. Sep 20, 202674LiveOverall +10 · Trust +20 · Information hierarchy +16Viewing
  2. Jun 8, 202664Overall +4 · Value props +10 · Mobile web +10View →
  3. May 3, 202660First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 68, weakest Trust 42View →

Trust

58Fair

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

Trust read
Sentient OSProduct demo UI showing "Analyzing Messages — 296 of 416 · 174 kept · 104 junk" with "Private by design. Your files neve
Highlight AIProduct demo overlay: "Reading new message in #hiring — Analyzing the thread and drafting next steps"
Dot by New Computer"watched it grow to help hundreds of thousands of you"
CluelyDetailed product demo screenshot showing Cluely's overlay answering "A discounted cash flow model values a company by pr

Value props

72Fair

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

Sentient OS’s headline undersellsYour Mac, sentient.An on-device LLM understands your entire life, then proactively offers to get your work done through computer use.

Working

  • Subhead names mechanism and outcome
  • Hero demo shows real product working
  • Privacy claim shown in-product

Could improve

  • H1 is mood, not outcome
  • No numbers or proof in the copy
  • 'entire life' is vague and broad

CTA

76Fair

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

Sentient OS

Problems

  • nav-only; no hero-level CTA
  • no price signal near button
  • hero center offers only a chevron

Mobile web

78Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Download for macOS button — Desktop-proportioned pill in the header instead of a full-width thumb-friendly CTA.
  2. Scroll chevron overlap — Chevron sits on the privacy line, mangling it into 'Private by design...never leave this Mac.'

Information hierarchy

88Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture12
  1. GitHub icon link — Only exit path in the fold sits directly beside the primary CTA at equal scan position, siphoning developer clicks off-site before download.
  2. Product demo fine print — The 'Private by design' trust line and processing details inside the laptop screen render too small to read at actual size, wasting a key reassurance.