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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

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Score over time

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  1. Sep 20, 202670LiveOverall −4 · CTA −8 · Value props −4Viewing
  2. Sep 11, 202674First tracked report — strongest Mobile web 86, weakest Trust 52View →

Trust

48Poor

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

Trust read
Anchorhead"Backed by Y Combinator" badge below the Book a demo CTA
Scale AI (Evaluations)implicit context Scale AI (Evaluations) may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Surge AI"New Frontier data and RL environments, off the shelf" announcement banner
Mercorimplicit context Mercor may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Prolificimplicit context Prolific may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Handshake AI"1M+ companies ready to hire. 100+ AI specialist roles across all levels."

CTA

68Fair

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

Anchorhead
Handshake AIin-product action
Prolific

Problems

  • click buys a meeting, not value
  • doesn't echo 'Evals as a service'
  • no zero-commitment alternative

Value props

68Fair

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

Anchorhead’s headline sellsEvals as a service.We have domain experts build real-world, custom evals for product teams.

Working

  • Instantly parseable category claim
  • Names differentiators: experts, custom
  • YC badge adds credibility

Could improve

  • No numbers or concrete proof
  • No outcome or emotional payoff
  • Hero art decorates, demonstrates nothing

Information hierarchy

82Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture12
  1. Duplicate Book a demo — Nav 'Book a demo' link duplicates the hero button at similar emphasis, splitting the single action into two targets.
  2. Hero CTA button — Modest footprint and muted dark-plum fill keep the primary button quieter than the headline; it reads as secondary at a glance.

Mobile web

86Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Book a demo button — Desktop-proportioned at half the column width; should be near-full-bleed for the thumb.
  2. Header nav links — Uncollapsed 'Customers' link plus duplicate 'Book a demo' text link compete with the hero CTA instead of folding into a menu.