TheoraYC S25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is CTA.

Fix CTA

Score over time

90807060504030Centaur Labs 70 on Sep 22 (Live)Mercor 75 on Jun 25 (Wayback)Mercor 76 on Jul 14 (Wayback)Mercor 77 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Mercor 74 on Aug 12 (Wayback)Mercor 59 on Aug 28 (Wayback)Mercor 57 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Mercor 54 on Sep 20 (Live)Surge AI 46 on Jun 9 (Wayback)Surge AI 45 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Surge AI 44 on Jul 24 (Wayback)Surge AI 46 on Aug 13 (Wayback)Surge AI 44 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Surge AI 46 on Aug 31 (Wayback)Surge AI 46 on Sep 20 (Live)Scale AI 62 on May 30 (Wayback)Scale AI 62 on Jun 15 (Wayback)Scale AI 49 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Scale AI 64 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Scale AI 62 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Scale AI 61 on Sep 20 (Live)Theora 58 on Sep 22 (Live)Sep 22

CTA

48Poor

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

Theora
Centaur Labs
Scale AI
Mercor

Problems

  • absent from mobile fold
  • tiny nav-corner footprint
  • "Learn More" promises reading, not value
  • no hero CTA under headline

Trust

48Poor

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

Theora
Centaur Labs
Trust read
Theora"Backed by Y Combinator" badge above the headline
Centaur LabsLeaderboard cards with task completion counts, e.g. "Skin Lesion Classification — 2,847 COMPLETED" showing Centaur Aggre
Mercorimplicit context Mercor may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Surge AI"New Frontier data and RL environments, off the shelf" announcement banner
Scale AIimplicit context Scale AI may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.

Mobile web

48Poor

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Oversized bullet marker — A huge black dot eats a column of width, squeezing the subheadline into eight cramped lines.
  2. Subheadline text block — Body copy wraps into eight short lines with loose spacing, making the value statement slow to scan.

Information hierarchy

72Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Learn More button — Only CTA sits isolated in the top-right corner, outside the left-aligned scan path, with a vague label.
  2. Subtitle bullet dot — Oversized lone bullet reads as a rendering glitch and adds visual noise to the one supporting line.
  3. Y Combinator badge — The badge is the first element in the content stack, outranking the headline as the opening beat.

Value props

72Fair

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

Theora’s headline sellsWe teach AI how real-world medicine is doneDatasets and environments to help healthcare agents succeed at complex multi-step tasks grounded in real patient cases

Working

  • Headline stakes a clear, differentiated claim
  • Subhead names the actual product: datasets + envs
  • YC badge adds early credibility

Could improve

  • No numbers: dataset size, cases, benchmarks
  • Hero image decorates, shows no product
  • Buyer outcome (agent performance) left implicit

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop