Khotan (formerly Pollinate)YC W26 landing page report.
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Khotan (formerly Pollinate)https://www.khotan.com/

Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Khotan (formerly Pollinate) ranks

  1. 1.Khotan (formerly Pollinate)74
  2. 2.SourceDay69
  3. 3.Tropic64
Fix Trust

Trust

64Fair

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

Trust read
Khotan (formerly Pollinate)"Trusted with billions in spend." section with customer names Anchor Packaging and Green Endeavour (mobile capture)
SourceDay"52% of your PO lines change" stat card with an Updates 450 → 320 metric overlaid on the hero image
TropicNo visible trust signal identified.

CTA

68Fair

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

Khotan (formerly Pollinate)
Tropic
SourceDay

Problems

  • click feels like a sales meeting
  • no value promise in the label
  • no lower-commitment alternative CTA
  • doesn't echo the headline's promise

Value props

68Fair

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

Khotan (formerly Pollinate)’s headline sellsBespoke procurement software, from data to deployment.We connect, clean and reconcile your structured and unstructured data then build bespoke applications around your rules, approvals and exceptions.

Working

  • Subhead names real work: connect, clean, reconcile
  • Hero image shows product handling real exceptions
  • 'Bespoke' differentiates from off-the-shelf tools

Could improve

  • No numbers or quantified outcomes anywhere
  • Zero emotional pull — no pain or relief named
  • Social proof buried below the fold

Information hierarchy

86Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Product dashboard screenshot — Packs a Gantt chart, inbox threads, and filter chips into a half-cropped strip — too dense to read as one proof point.
  2. YC funding banner — High-contrast orange bar is the loudest element on the page and pulls the first glance above the headline.
  3. Duplicate header CTA — Same-weight 'Book a Demo' repeats inches from the hero button, splitting the click target without adding reach.

Mobile web

86Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Subheadline over texture — Body copy sits on a noisy halftone background, cutting contrast and legibility at arm's length.
  2. Desktop product screenshot — A full desktop Gantt UI shrunk into the phone column — every label is illegible and it adds noise, not proof.
  3. Funding announcement banner — The orange promo bar eats the top of the viewport and pushes the hero down without any tappable action.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop