83 SciencesYC S26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

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  1. Sep 20, 202663LiveOverall −4 · Trust −20 · Value props +10Viewing
  2. Jul 19, 202667First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 82, weakest Trust 58View →

Trust

38Poor

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

Citrine Informatics
Mat3ra
Trust read
83 SciencesNo visible trust signal identified.
CuspAINo visible trust signal identified.
Orbital MaterialsNo visible trust signal identified.
Citrine InformaticsCustomer logo strip featuring GM and LyondellBasell
Radical AINo visible trust signal identified.
Mat3raLogo strip with U.S. Air Force, Shell, U.S. Department of Energy, and Tohoku University

CTA

62Fair

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

83 Sciences
Mat3ra

Problems

  • 'Partner' feels costly and committal
  • no value payoff named in the label
  • hero CTA and card CTAs diverge

Mobile web

68Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Uncollapsed nav row — Full desktop link row crammed into the phone header instead of a hamburger menu.
  2. Wordmark-nav collision — "83 Sciences" runs directly into "Academia" with no spacing, reading as one broken string.
  3. Partner with us CTA — Desktop-proportioned button at half column width instead of near-full-bleed.

Value props

72Fair

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

83 Sciences’s headline sellsNew materials and breakthroughs from unpublished lab data

Working

  • Names a unique mechanism: unpublished lab data
  • Segment cards name real outcomes per audience
  • "Faster and more cheaply" is a concrete promise

Could improve

  • No subhead — zero proof under the H1
  • No numbers: labs, materials, datasets
  • Background decorates, shows no product

Information hierarchy

76Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Mobile nav overlaps wordmark — "Academia" collides with "83 Sciences" wordmark on mobile — nav never collapses to a menu (visible in mobile capture; desktop nav is the anchor here).
  2. Faint hero CTA — "Partner with us →" is small relative to the massive headline and its gradient nearly matches the accent text, so it doesn't read as the fold's dominant action.
  3. Log In button weight — The outlined "Log In" box is the only other button-shaped element in the fold and pulls returning-visitor styling into the first scan pass.
  4. Dual audience card row — "For Industry" and "For Academia" cards carry three same-weight link CTAs that split attention from the hero's single action just below the fold line.