ConvictionYC S25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Conviction ranks

  1. 1.Conviction73
  2. 2.Composer65
  3. 3.Trade Ideas63
  4. 4.Tickeron58
Fix Trust

Score over time

80706050Composer 71 on Mar 7 (Wayback)Composer 67 on Apr 4 (Wayback)Composer 69 on Jul 21 (Wayback)Composer 65 on Jul 28 (Wayback)Composer 66 on Aug 4 (Wayback)Composer 65 on Aug 25 (Live)Tickeron 54 on Mar 9 (Wayback)Tickeron 54 on Jun 18 (Wayback)Tickeron 54 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Tickeron 58 on Jul 27 (Live)Trade Ideas 56 on Apr 21 (Wayback)Trade Ideas 53 on May 2 (Wayback)Trade Ideas 56 on May 11 (Wayback)Trade Ideas 57 on Jun 1 (Wayback)Trade Ideas 62 on Jun 11 (Wayback)Trade Ideas 57 on Jul 26 (Wayback)Trade Ideas 63 on Sep 2 (Live)Conviction 73 on Sep 22 (Live)Sep 22

Trust

58Fair

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

Trust read
Conviction"Backed by Y Combinator" badge next to brokerage integration logos (Robinhood, Public.com, Alpaca)
Composer"$37B+ trading volume" stat below the mobile CTA
TickeronTrending AI Robots (30) (Selected out of 298 Total)
Trade IdeasLive "Stocks Trending Now" panel showing real ticker data (AAPL 323.08, NFLX 81.29) with timestamp

Information hierarchy

72Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Trading Hackathon banner — Gold outlined pill with arrow sits directly above the headline, outranking the value prop and adding an exit before the CTA.
  2. Duplicate header CTA — 'Get Started For Free' in the nav matches the hero button's white pill styling, splitting primary-action weight across two spots.
  3. Strategy panel carousel — Truncated prompt text with pagination dots asks visitors to process an unfinished demo while the headline is still landing.
  4. Five-link nav row — How it works / Features / FAQ / Why Conviction / Careers give five equal-weight exits before the fold's one action.

Value props

76Fair

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

Conviction’s headline sellsMake dumb smart money with agentic trading.Describe a trading idea in natural language. Conviction builds the strategy, backtests it, and turns it into an AI agent that monitors the market and acts for you.

Working

  • Subhead names input, mechanism, outcome
  • Strategy card demos a real prompt
  • Brokerage logos + YC badge add trust

Could improve

  • Headline is wordplay, not value
  • No numbers or proof points anywhere
  • No result shown from the demo agent

CTA

79Fair

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

Conviction

Problems

  • 4 words — over the 3-word ideal
  • strategy panel is demo, not input
  • generic label, no product echo

Mobile web

80Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Header CTA duplicate — "Get Started For Free" duplicated in the header crowds the hamburger and repeats the hero button below.
  2. Hackathon promo banner — Full-width Alpaca banner stacks a second chrome row under the header, pushing the hero and CTA down.