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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

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Score over time

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Trust

48Poor

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

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Captions
Descript
Trust read
CardboardMobile AI-director demo: "Cut a 60s brand film from the VO and the site b-roll" with "Watching 4 clips · 19 min of b-rol
DescriptUnderlord AI chat panel showing a real editing workflow: "I see there are some repeated takes and long pauses. I'll remo
KapwingInteractive prompt box with "Attach Media" button and media thumbnails showing the real product input UI
CaptionsEmbedded editor widget: "Add footage to start" with "Create my video" button and example output thumbnails
invideo AIProduct editor screenshot with timeline UI and rendered video output below the hero
VeedG2 badge "1500+ 5 star reviews" above the hero headline

Value props

72Fair

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

Cardboard’s headline undersellsEdit videos in minutes, not hours

Working

  • Time-saving outcome, not features
  • Mobile demo shows real AI prompt flow
  • Concrete detail: 60s film, 19 min b-roll

Could improve

  • No subhead explaining how it works
  • Desktop editor mockup is empty
  • AI angle invisible on desktop fold

CTA

76Fair

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

Cardboard
Descript
Captionsin-product action
Veed
Kapwingin-product action
invideo AI

Problems

  • generic label, no product payoff
  • no header echo of 'minutes'
  • prompt box visible but not the CTA

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Learn more button — Same size and position weight as the primary CTA, splitting the hero click two ways.
  2. Duplicate nav Get started — Second identically labeled CTA in the nav competes with the hero button instead of reinforcing it.
  3. Edge-cropped film thumbnails — Half-cut clips at the viewport edges read as rendering glitches rather than intentional brand texture.

Mobile web

82Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Get started button — Floats at partial width; mobile allows a near-full-bleed, thumb-friendly CTA.
  2. Clipped preview text — Background copy is cut mid-word ("deos with AI"), making the crop look broken.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop