FernYC W26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

Fix Trust

Score over time

706050403020Hillbot 44 on Apr 18 (Wayback)Hillbot 48 on Jun 15 (Wayback)Hillbot 54 on Sep 22 (Live)Genesis AI 34 on May 3 (Wayback)Genesis AI 60 on Sep 22 (Live)Marble (World Labs) 52 on Apr 19 (Wayback)Marble (World Labs) 52 on May 4 (Wayback)Marble (World Labs) 31 on May 22 (Wayback)Marble (World Labs) 51 on Jun 16 (Wayback)Marble (World Labs) 58 on Sep 21 (Live)Skild AI 50 on Jul 24 (Live)Fern 64 on Sep 22 (Live)Sep 22

Trust

48Poor

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

Fern
Hillbot
Trust read
Fern"Backed by Y Combinator" badge
HillbotSimulation demo player labeled "HumanoidPlaceAppleInBowl-v1" with "[TRAINING STAGE 01 of 04] Learning to reach the apple
Genesis AINo visible trust signal identified.
Marble (World Labs)"CLICK TO EXPLORE" interactive world demo in the mobile hero
Skild AINo visible trust signal identified.

Value props

58Fair

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

Fern’s headline vagueEnabling physical AI at scaleHigh-fidelity, custom robot world models to help scale evaluating and training your robot policies.

Working

  • Subhead names product and job precisely
  • "Fern's robot policies" speaks to the buyer
  • YC badge adds credibility

Could improve

  • Headline is a category slogan, not a claim
  • No numbers or proof points in the fold
  • Logo mark hero shows nothing of the product

CTA

62Fair

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

Fern

Problems

  • 'meeting' makes click feel costly
  • no value promised for the click
  • modest footprint vs headline on desktop

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Schedule a Meeting CTA — Primary CTA is last in the button stack at the fold edge, behind two secondary links.
  2. Whitepaper button — Secondary link sits above the primary CTA, intercepting the first thumb tap (Case Studies duplicates the problem).
  3. Logo mark — Oversized decorative mark consumes a large slice of the fold, pushing CTAs to the bottom edge.

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Whitepaper Case Studies row — Two outlined buttons sit above the primary CTA and intercept the scan before the conversion action.
  2. Schedule a Meeting button — The primary CTA is narrower than the secondary buttons above it, so it reads as third in a stack instead of the one action.
  3. Backed by YC badge — The badge is the topmost element and, if linked, is an exit path outranking the headline in the scan order.