Ooak DataYC S26 landing page report.
← Back to YC S26

Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

Fix Trust

Score over time

90807060504030Mechanize 53 on Jun 27 (Wayback)Mechanize 53 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Mechanize 50 on Jul 29 (Wayback)Mechanize 52 on Aug 7 (Wayback)Mechanize 53 on Aug 30 (Wayback)Mechanize 55 on Sep 9 (Wayback)Mechanize 56 on Sep 20 (Live)Prime Intellect 74 on Jun 23 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 76 on Jul 14 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 75 on Jul 22 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 74 on Aug 8 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 74 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 72 on Sep 3 (Wayback)Prime Intellect 74 on Sep 20 (Live)Fleet 51 on Sep 22 (Live)Kaizen (Halluminate) 65 on Apr 19 (Wayback)Kaizen (Halluminate) 65 on May 26 (Wayback)Kaizen (Halluminate) 67 on Jun 6 (Wayback)Kaizen (Halluminate) 66 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Kaizen (Halluminate) 68 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Kaizen (Halluminate) 65 on Sep 22 (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)Ooak Data 68 on Sep 20 (Live)Sep 20

Trust

42Poor

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

Ooak Data
Prime Intellect
Mechanize
Fleet
Kaizen (Halluminate)
Trust read
Ooak Data"Backed by Y Combinator" badge below the hero CTAs
MechanizeGBA Eval benchmark screenshots labeled "Claude Opus 4.8", "Diff", and "Reference"
Prime IntellectCustomer logo grid with CASE STUDY links: ramp, NVIDIA, Zapier, character.ai, Goodfire, Arcee, Browserbase
Fleet"We are supported by Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, and SV Angel."
Kaizen (Halluminate)"Backed by Y" (Y Combinator) badge above the hero headline
Surge AI"New Frontier data and RL environments, off the shelf" announcement banner

Value props

66Fair

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

Ooak Data’s headline undersellsThe data infrastructure for frontier AIOoak Data is an applied AI research lab. We turn real company data into RL environments where AI agents learn to work in the real world.

Working

  • Subhead names a clear, specific mechanism
  • Audience (frontier AI labs) is unambiguous
  • YC badge adds a credibility proof point

Could improve

  • Headline is a category label, not a value claim
  • No numbers or scale proof anywhere in the fold
  • Hero shows gradient, never the product working

CTA

68Fair

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

Ooak Data
Prime Intellect

Problems

  • vague payoff — 'work' names nothing
  • competes with nav 'Get in touch'
  • browse action, not a conversion

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture12
  1. Explore our work button — Competes with nav's "Get in touch" for primary status — two filled CTAs point to different actions.
  2. Read our research button — Same size and position as the primary button, diluting the scan path with an equal-weight choice.

Mobile web

88Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Hero headline — Barely scaled down from desktop; wraps to three oversized lines that push the CTA toward the bottom of the fold.
  2. Subhead paragraph — Four long lines of large gray text add height between the headline and the primary CTA.