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

Fix Trust

Score over time

90807060504030Spyderbat 60 on Apr 3 (Wayback)Spyderbat 56 on Jul 9 (Wayback)Spyderbat 60 on Sep 20 (Live)Oligo Security 63 on May 2 (Wayback)Oligo Security 64 on May 12 (Wayback)Oligo Security 65 on Jun 6 (Wayback)Oligo Security 73 on Jul 1 (Wayback)Oligo Security 71 on Jul 12 (Wayback)Oligo Security 72 on Sep 3 (Wayback)Oligo Security 73 on Sep 20 (Live)Sweet Security 73 on Apr 9 (Wayback)Sweet Security 60 on Apr 25 (Wayback)Sweet Security 41 on May 14 (Wayback)Sweet Security 46 on Jun 9 (Wayback)Sweet Security 56 on Aug 16 (Wayback)Sweet Security 57 on Sep 7 (Wayback)Sweet Security 69 on Sep 20 (Live)Uptycs 52 on Apr 20 (Wayback)Uptycs 54 on May 1 (Wayback)Uptycs 58 on Jun 10 (Wayback)Uptycs 54 on Jul 1 (Wayback)Uptycs 54 on Aug 22 (Wayback)Uptycs 56 on Sep 14 (Wayback)Uptycs 56 on Sep 20 (Live)ARMO 61 on Apr 2 (Wayback)ARMO 65 on Apr 20 (Wayback)ARMO 62 on May 18 (Wayback)ARMO 63 on Jun 8 (Wayback)ARMO 62 on Aug 3 (Wayback)ARMO 63 on Sep 4 (Wayback)ARMO 64 on Sep 20 (Live)Palisade 76 on Sep 20 (Live)Sep 20

Trust

62Fair

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

Palisade
Oligo Security
Trust read
PalisadeProduct simulation panel showing "NET-004 · RESOLVED · Cloud metadata service — egress restricted" with live syscall fee
SpyderbatNo visible trust signal identified.
Oligo SecurityCustomer logo bar: Salesforce, ServiceNow, Tekion, SoFi, Cato Networks, Kyriba, UiPath, DevRev, Instacart
Sweet Security"Security teams run Sweet across cloud and AI, in production" logo strip with Fireblocks and SafeBreach (mobile capture)
UptycsNo visible trust signal identified.
ARMO"Trusted by security and loved by Devops at_" logo strip with Broadcom, Ericsson, Allot, VGW

CTA

72Fair

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

Palisade
Sweet Security

Problems

  • '30-min' prices the click as time cost
  • four words, over the 3-word ideal
  • label differs from nav 'Book a demo'
  • demo booking is a high-commitment ask

Mobile web

76Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Long body paragraph — Nine wrapped lines of desktop-length copy push the primary CTA to the fold's bottom edge.
  2. Six-line hero headline — Headline scales down too little and wraps into six cramped lines, eating half the viewport.
  3. Book a 30-min demo — Primary CTA sits at the very bottom of the fold; a partial scroll is needed to tap it comfortably.

Information hierarchy

82Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Duplicate nav demo buttons — "Watch demo" and "Book a demo" in the nav duplicate the hero's CTA pair, splitting one action across four buttons.
  2. Four nav text links — "How it works / Proof / CVEs / Founder" offer four exits before the visitor reaches the booking action.
  3. Nine-line subhead paragraph — The kernel-monitoring paragraph is a text wall that delays the scan from headline to CTA.

Value props

86Strong

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

Palisade’s headline sellsAI that detects and fixes OS vulnerabilities — across every endpoint, in minutes.Palisade watches your systems at the kernel — syscalls, eBPF traces, process and memory events, live network packets — finds the vulnerabilities other tools miss, and applies the fix fleet-wide. Privilege escalation, remote code execution,

Working

  • Detect AND fix — full loop named
  • Speed and scope in the headline
  • Hero shows product resolving a real CVE

Could improve

  • No hard numbers in headline copy
  • Long subhead buries the payoff line
  • No customer or scale proof in fold