OperandYC W25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

Fix Trust

Score over time

757065605550AlphaSense 65 on Sep 20 (Live)Tegus 58 on Apr 16 (Wayback)Tegus 61 on May 14 (Wayback)Tegus 61 on Jun 10 (Wayback)Tegus 59 on Sep 14 (Wayback)Tegus 54 on Sep 20 (Live)Grata 62 on Apr 16 (Wayback)Grata 63 on Apr 24 (Wayback)Grata 64 on May 10 (Wayback)Grata 60 on May 19 (Wayback)Grata 65 on Jul 9 (Wayback)Grata 65 on Aug 13 (Wayback)Grata 60 on Sep 21 (Live)PitchBook 64 on Mar 28 (Wayback)PitchBook 68 on Sep 18 (Live)Sourcescrub 56 on Apr 12 (Wayback)Sourcescrub 58 on May 15 (Wayback)Sourcescrub 60 on Sep 21 (Live)Operand 55 on Sep 21 (Live)Sep 21

Trust

34Poor

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

AlphaSense
Grata
PitchBook
Sourcescrub
Trust read
OperandNo visible trust signal identified.
AlphaSenseAlphaSense is named the only Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026
Tegusimplicit context Tegus may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
GrataG2 badge row with "Rated 4.9/5" and Fall 2025 badges (Momentum Leader, Easiest Admin, Fastest Implementation, Users Love
PitchBook"a Morningstar company" tagline under the PitchBook logo
Sourcescrub"connects them with the 290,000-and-growing sources where they can be found"

Value props

52Fair

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

Operand’s headline vaguePrivate-Markets Intelligence.Due diligence and value creation for private equity firms.

Working

  • Subhead names the exact buyer: PE firms
  • Names both jobs: diligence + value creation
  • Confident, premium tone fits audience

Could improve

  • Headline is a category label, no outcome
  • Zero numbers or proof points in fold
  • Hero visual decorates, shows nothing

CTA

58Fair

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

Operand
AlphaSense
PitchBook
Sourcescrub
Tegus
Grata

Problems

  • high-cost ask: a sales meeting
  • styled as text link, not button
  • no value promised for the click
  • blends into nav-weight typography

Mobile web

58Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1
  1. Request a Meeting link — Primary CTA is a small text link far below the first viewport instead of a full-width tappable button.

Information hierarchy

72Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Request a Meeting link — Primary CTA is a text link with no button treatment, duplicated in nav and hero at identical low weight — nothing signals it as the action.
  2. Subheadline copy — The only explanation of what Operand does is set in small low-contrast grey type, visually outranked by everything above it.
  3. Nav link row — Four equal-weight links sit in the scan path before the CTA, each an exit with no visual subordination to the conversion action.