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

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Score over time

90807060504030Modular (MAX) 71 on Jun 22 (Wayback)Modular (MAX) 73 on Jul 1 (Wayback)Modular (MAX) 73 on Jul 20 (Wayback)Modular (MAX) 71 on Aug 12 (Wayback)Modular (MAX) 37 on Aug 26 (Wayback)Modular (MAX) 48 on Sep 7 (Wayback)Modular (MAX) 69 on Sep 22 (Live)Together AI 73 on May 4 (Wayback)Together AI 73 on May 19 (Wayback)Together AI 73 on May 30 (Wayback)Together AI 73 on Jun 17 (Wayback)Together AI 74 on Jul 2 (Wayback)Together AI 70 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Together AI 73 on Jul 28 (Live)Fireworks AI 70 on Mar 24 (Wayback)Fireworks AI 73 on Apr 7 (Wayback)Fireworks AI 75 on Apr 20 (Wayback)Fireworks AI 71 on May 19 (Wayback)Fireworks AI 73 on Jun 10 (Wayback)Fireworks AI 79 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Fireworks AI 78 on Jul 28 (Live)Baseten 52 on Feb 12 (Wayback)Baseten 77 on Feb 21 (Wayback)Baseten 47 on May 18 (Wayback)Baseten 77 on Jul 28 (Live)Luminal 68 on Mar 24 (Wayback)Luminal 68 on May 16 (Wayback)Luminal 68 on Jul 10 (Wayback)Luminal 68 on Sep 22 (Live)Mar 24May 16Jul 10Sep 22
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  1. Sep 22, 202668LiveCTA −4 · Information hierarchy +2Viewing
  2. Jul 10, 202668No score movementView →
  3. May 16, 202668CTA +4 · Trust −4View →
  4. Mar 24, 202668First tracked report — strongest Mobile web 82, weakest Trust 42View →

Trust

38Poor

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

Luminal
Baseten
Together AI
Modular (MAX)
Trust read
LuminalGITHUB button linking to the open-source repository
Modular (MAX)Deployment console screenshot showing MiniMax M3 with 0.33s TTFT, 99.9% Uptime, and latency chart
Together AI"TRUSTED BY" logo strip with Cohere, DeepMind, LG AI Research, VFS.Global, ElevenLabs
Fireworks AIimplicit context Fireworks AI may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
BasetenCustomer logo wall featuring Cursor, Notion, HubSpot, Harvey, Descript, and Lovable

Value props

68Fair

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

Luminal’s headline sellsInference at the speed of light.Luminal compiles AI models to give you the fastest, highest throughput inference in the world.

Working

  • Names the mechanism: compiles AI models
  • Outcome-led: speed and throughput
  • Clear audience fit for ML engineers

Could improve

  • No numbers backing 'fastest in the world'
  • Hero space is decoration, not demo
  • Superlative claim without visible proof

CTA

72Fair

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

Luminal
Together AI
Baseten
Modular (MAX)

Problems

  • generic label, no product echo
  • small footprint vs huge headline
  • no payoff or outcome named

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Five-link nav row — BENCHMARKS, CALCULATOR, BLOG, CAREERS, CONTACT plus GitHub icon give seven exits equal footing before the hero argument lands.
  2. GitHub secondary button — Outbound repo link styled as a peer button beside the primary CTA, splitting the one action developers should take.
  3. Duplicate Get Started — Nav repeats the hero CTA in an outlined ghost style, diluting the primary button's uniqueness in the scan path.

Mobile web

84Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. GET STARTED button — Stops at roughly half the column width instead of near-full-bleed, undersized for a mobile primary CTA.
  2. GITHUB secondary button — Stacked directly under the primary CTA in the same thumb zone, splitting the tap decision.