hiloopYC S26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is CTA.

How hiloop ranks

  1. 1.OpenPipe76
  2. 2.hiloop74
  3. 3.Adaptive ML64
Fix CTA

Score over time

80706050OpenPipe 75 on Apr 12 (Wayback)OpenPipe 76 on Apr 20 (Wayback)OpenPipe 75 on May 24 (Wayback)OpenPipe 75 on Jun 16 (Wayback)OpenPipe 76 on Jun 28 (Wayback)OpenPipe 75 on Jul 28 (Wayback)OpenPipe 76 on Jul 31 (Live)Adaptive ML 61 on Apr 10 (Wayback)Adaptive ML 56 on Apr 22 (Wayback)Adaptive ML 59 on May 4 (Wayback)Adaptive ML 61 on Aug 1 (Wayback)Adaptive ML 64 on Sep 20 (Live)hiloop 74 on Sep 20 (Live)Sep 20

CTA

68Fair

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

hiloop
OpenPipe

Problems

  • high-commitment sales-call click
  • four words, over ideal length
  • two labels for same action
  • no low-cost alternative path

Trust

68Fair

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

hiloop
OpenPipe
Trust read
hiloop"Trusted by" logo row: Reducto, ErdosMiller, Nebula Security, understudy, Maingen
OpenPipe"Trusted by top companies" logo row featuring Zapier, Y Combinator, Flow, and Method
Adaptive ML"Adaptive ML has been acquired by Datadog" announcement banner

Value props

72Fair

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

hiloop’s headline undersellsAutoresearch as a service.We turn a measurable target into thousands of directed experiments, and return a better model or algorithm. You bring the metric and a way to score it. We run the loop.

Working

  • Subhead names input, process, output
  • "hiloop bring the metric. We run the loop." is crisp
  • YC badge plus five-logo trust row

Could improve

  • Headline is jargon without prior context
  • No outcome magnitude (accuracy, time saved)
  • Hero chart decorates, doesn't demonstrate

Mobile web

78Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1
  1. Talk to the founders — Stops at ~60% width; a near-full-bleed button would be far easier to thumb-tap.

Information hierarchy

82Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture12
  1. Duplicate CTA labels — "Talk to us" in the nav and "Talk to the founders" in the hero split the same action across two differently labeled buttons.
  2. Detached hero CTA — The CTA floats right of the text column, off the left-aligned scan path that runs from headline to subhead to logos.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop