AsterYC P26 landing page report.
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Asterhttps://www.asterlab.ai/

Your landing page’s weakest score is CTA.

How Aster ranks

  1. 1.Edison Scientific69
  2. 2.FutureHouse61
  3. 3.Aster53
  4. 4.Sakana AI43
  5. 5.Lila Sciences41
Fix CTA
53Growth scoreupdated

category scores

CTA42Mobile web48Information hierarchy52Value props62Trust62
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CTA42Mobile web48Information hierarchy52Value props62Trust62

Score over time

80706050403020Sakana AI 44 on Jun 23 (Wayback)Sakana AI 43 on Jul 12 (Wayback)Sakana AI 45 on Jul 24 (Wayback)Sakana AI 46 on Aug 13 (Wayback)Sakana AI 44 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Sakana AI 46 on Sep 9 (Wayback)Sakana AI 43 on Sep 20 (Live)FutureHouse 66 on May 21 (Wayback)FutureHouse 62 on Jun 14 (Wayback)FutureHouse 63 on Jun 28 (Wayback)FutureHouse 63 on Jul 18 (Wayback)FutureHouse 63 on Aug 4 (Wayback)FutureHouse 64 on Sep 7 (Wayback)FutureHouse 61 on Sep 20 (Live)Edison Scientific 66 on May 13 (Wayback)Edison Scientific 58 on May 28 (Wayback)Edison Scientific 67 on Jun 9 (Wayback)Edison Scientific 67 on Jun 24 (Wayback)Edison Scientific 68 on Jul 27 (Wayback)Edison Scientific 64 on Aug 31 (Wayback)Edison Scientific 69 on Sep 20 (Live)Lila Sciences 33 on Apr 22 (Wayback)Lila Sciences 33 on May 4 (Wayback)Lila Sciences 32 on Jun 4 (Wayback)Lila Sciences 38 on Jun 11 (Wayback)Lila Sciences 37 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Lila Sciences 40 on Sep 12 (Wayback)Lila Sciences 41 on Sep 20 (Live)Aster 32 on Apr 18 (Wayback)Aster 30 on May 11 (Wayback)Aster 33 on May 20 (Wayback)Aster 47 on Jun 17 (Wayback)Aster 49 on Jul 22 (Wayback)Aster 54 on Aug 30 (Wayback)Aster 53 on Sep 20 (Live)Apr 18May 11May 20Jun 17Jul 22Aug 30Sep 20
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  1. Sep 20, 202653LiveOverall −1 · Information hierarchy −6 · Trust +4Viewing
  2. Aug 30, 202654Overall +5 · Trust +14 · Information hierarchy +6View →
  3. Jul 22, 202649Overall +2 · CTA +12 · Information hierarchy −3View →
  4. Jun 17, 202647Overall +14 · Value props +24 · Trust +24View →
  5. May 20, 202633Overall +3 · Information hierarchy +10 · Trust +3View →
  6. May 11, 202630Overall −2 · CTA −4 · Mobile web −4View →
  7. Apr 18, 202632First tracked report — strongest CTA 52, weakest Trust 15View →

CTA

42Poor

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

Edison Scientific
FutureHouse
Lila Sciences

Problems

  • no primary CTA anywhere in fold
  • only nav links and a text link
  • banner is news, not an action
  • no path into the product

Mobile web

48Poor

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Uncollapsed nav row — Full desktop link row (Products, Plans, Inference, Join Us) crammed across the phone instead of a hamburger.
  2. Two-line announcement banner — Banner wraps to two lines and stacks with the nav into a double-decker header eating the top of the fold.
  3. Mission paragraph — Seven lines of prose stand in for a hero with no CTA button anywhere in the first viewport.

Information hierarchy

52Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Mission paragraph hero — The value prop is set as paragraph body copy with no headline and no CTA beneath it, so the fold's focal block ends in a dead stop.
  2. Follow on X link — The only styled link in the hero sends visitors off-site to X before any on-site action exists.
  3. World record banner — The topmost element links away to an announcement, competing with the hero before the visitor reads what Aster is.
  4. Benchmark chart cropped — The strongest proof visual sits half-cut at the fold edge with axis labels too small to read.

Value props

62Fair

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

Aster’s headline undersellsasterAster is a Public Benefit Corporation focusing on automating research. Currently, discovering novel technologies takes years. Our mission is to develop autonomous research systems that compress decades of research into hours.

Working

  • 'Decades into hours' is vivid and outcome-led
  • Benchmark chart shows real proof (+5.68%)
  • World-record banner adds instant credibility

Could improve

  • No headline — wordmark stands in for an H1
  • Best line buried third in a mission paragraph
  • 'Public Benefit Corporation' leads, not value

Trust

62Fair

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

Trust read
Aster"Andrej Karpathy's Benchmark" bar chart showing Aster at +5.68% vs Community best +2.84% and Recursive +5.57%
Sakana AIimplicit context Sakana AI may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
FutureHouse"We're a non-profit building AI agents to automate research in biology and other complex sciences."
Edison ScientificPartner/customer logo strip on mobile showing Incyte and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lila SciencesNo visible trust signal identified.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop
#1Edison Scientificedisonscientific.com69 #2FutureHousefuturehouse.org61
#3Aster53
#4Sakana AIsakana.ai43 #5Lila Scienceslila.ai41