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

Fix Trust

Score over time

8070605040Distyl AI 47 on Feb 16 (Wayback)Distyl AI 47 on Mar 16 (Wayback)Distyl AI 48 on Apr 17 (Wayback)Distyl AI 60 on Jul 28 (Live)Tribe AI 72 on Apr 14 (Wayback)Tribe AI 70 on Apr 27 (Wayback)Tribe AI 70 on May 20 (Wayback)Tribe AI 55 on Jul 18 (Wayback)Tribe AI 54 on Aug 15 (Wayback)Tribe AI 51 on Sep 19 (Wayback)Tribe AI 54 on Sep 20 (Live)Fractional AI 63 on Apr 4 (Wayback)Fractional AI 62 on May 14 (Wayback)Fractional AI 50 on May 22 (Wayback)Fractional AI 62 on Jun 19 (Wayback)Fractional AI 59 on Jul 30 (Wayback)Fractional AI 64 on Sep 20 (Live)Invisible Technologies 58 on Sep 20 (Live)Marker 72 on Sep 20 (Live)Sep 20

Trust

48Poor

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

Marker
Tribe AI
Fractional AI
Invisible Technologies
Trust read
Marker"BACKED BY Y COMBINATOR" badge above the hero headline
Distyl AINo visible trust signal identified.
Tribe AIClient logo strip featuring AAA, Cleveland Clinic, Hyatt, Kirkland & Ellis, Francisco Partners, FIS, and Koch
Fractional AIClient logo wall: Airbyte, Atropos Health, Aurora Energy Research, Beghou, Cando, change.org, CitrinCooperman, Claritev
Invisible Technologies"We've trained over 80% of the world's leading AI models and deploy them at enterprise scale."

CTA

68Fair

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

Marker

Problems

  • click feels costly — sales call
  • no value named in the label
  • no echo of 'shipped' promise

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Node diagram labels — Tiny gray labels like "95% grunt work" overlap the tangled lines and are barely legible, so the proof points on the right half of the fold don't land.
  2. HOW IT WORKS button — Styled at nearly the same size and position as BOOK A CALL, splitting the click between two equal-weight buttons.
  3. Book a Call button — Dark button on light background reads, but its slanted-edge treatment merges with the arrow chip and shrinks the perceived click target.

Value props

82Strong

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

Marker’s headline sellsYour AI transformation, actually shippedWe embed with your company, ship agents in weeks, and don't stop until your transformation is complete.

Working

  • "actually shipped" hits AI-fatigue frustration
  • Subhead names mechanism and timeframe
  • Hero diagram shows real metrics, not decoration

Could improve

  • Best numbers hidden in tiny diagram labels
  • "AI transformation" leans on category jargon
  • No customer or category proof beyond YC badge

Mobile web

82Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Split CTA row — Primary "BOOK A CALL" shares the row at half-width with "HOW IT WORKS" instead of getting a full-bleed, thumb-first button.
  2. Detached arrow chip — The arrow sits in a separate slanted chip beside "BOOK A CALL", making the tappable boundary of the primary CTA ambiguous.
  3. Faded diagram label — The "95% grunt work" caption in the network graphic is rendered at near-invisible contrast, adding noise without communicating.