PetrarchYC S26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Value props.

Fix Value props

Score over time

90807060504030Mercor 75 on Jun 25 (Wayback)Mercor 76 on Jul 14 (Wayback)Mercor 77 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Mercor 74 on Aug 12 (Wayback)Mercor 59 on Aug 28 (Wayback)Mercor 57 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Mercor 54 on Sep 20 (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)Scale AI 62 on May 30 (Wayback)Scale AI 62 on Jun 15 (Wayback)Scale AI 49 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Scale AI 64 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Scale AI 62 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Scale AI 61 on Sep 20 (Live)Turing 73 on May 22 (Wayback)Turing 74 on Jun 28 (Wayback)Turing 72 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Turing 65 on Sep 22 (Live)Snorkel AI 64 on May 22 (Wayback)Snorkel AI 77 on Jun 6 (Wayback)Snorkel AI 76 on Jun 14 (Wayback)Snorkel AI 75 on Jul 1 (Wayback)Snorkel AI 75 on Jul 28 (Wayback)Snorkel AI 75 on Aug 28 (Wayback)Snorkel AI 68 on Sep 20 (Live)Petrarch 47 on Jul 7 (Wayback)Petrarch 60 on Sep 20 (Live)Jul 7Sep 20
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  1. Sep 20, 202660LiveOverall +13 · CTA +24 · Mobile web +17Viewing
  2. Jul 7, 202647First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 58, weakest Trust 38View →

Value props

44Poor

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

Petrarch’s headline vagueYesterday's data serving tomorrow's economyPetrarch unlocks the specialized knowledge embedded in economically vital businesses to accelerate real-world AI.

Working

  • Memorable, evocative phrasing
  • YC badge lends credibility
  • Hints at data-to-AI positioning

Could improve

  • Headline never says what Petrarch does
  • No numbers or concrete outcomes
  • Hero image decorates, not demonstrates

Trust

52Fair

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

Petrarch
Snorkel AI
Trust read
Petrarch"Backed by Y Combinator" badge next to the Request access CTA
Mercorimplicit context Mercor may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Surge AI"New Frontier data and RL environments, off the shelf" announcement banner
Scale AIimplicit context Scale AI may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Turingimplicit context Turing may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Snorkel AILogo strip "WITH TOP FRONTIER AI AND RESEARCH TEAMS" showing Anthropic, Mistral AI, Brown, and University of Washington

Information hierarchy

66Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Request access button — Dark charcoal button on a dark Colosseum background nearly disappears; the primary CTA fails the one-second find test.
  2. Book a call pill — Second conversion action floating bottom-right splits intent with 'Request access' and sits closer to the natural exit corner.
  3. Y Combinator badge — Bright orange logo is the highest-contrast element in the fold, outranking both the headline and the CTA in the scan path.
  4. Headline over dark arches — White serif headline sits on busy stone texture with uneven contrast, forcing the eye to work to parse the value prop.

CTA

66Fair

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

Petrarch
Scale AI
Turing
Snorkel AI

Problems

  • 'Request' feels like waiting, not value
  • competing 'Book a call' floating pill
  • small footprint vs huge desktop headline
  • no payoff promised for the click

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Book a call bubble — Floating pill overlaps and crowds the 'Backed by Y Combinator' badge, clipping the wordmark at the fold edge.
  2. Request access button — Desktop-proportioned button floats at half the column width instead of a full-bleed thumb target.
  3. Hero headline wrap — Headline scales down too little and wraps into three tall lines, pushing the CTA to the very bottom of the fold.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop