Velum LabsYC W26 landing page report.
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  1. Sep 21, 202665LiveOverall −2 · Value props −10 · Information hierarchy +6Viewing
  2. Jun 7, 202667Trust −10 · CTA +4View →
  3. May 17, 202667First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 72, weakest Trust 52View →

Trust

42Poor

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

Velum Labs
OpenRouter
Requesty
Martian
Trust read
Velum Labs"YC W26" badge in the footer
OpenRouterStat bar: "400T+ Monthly Tokens · 10M+ Global Users · 80+ Providers · 500+ Models"
Martian"We've worked on Google DeepMind's early scientific initiatives, developed Anthropic's interpretability efforts, and com
Not Diamond5%+ accuracy gains | 30%+ cost savings | 2x faster dev cycles
RequestyDetailed analytics dashboard screenshot showing "Sum of Cost by Model Over Time — $445.95" with per-model usage table (o
UnifyBlog index listing dated research posts: "Why we built Continual-ARC." and "The harness is not enough."

Value props

62Fair

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

Velum Labs’s headline undersellsOwn your intelligence. No single lab owns the frontier.RouteKit sits on your machine. It pools all of your compute and sends each coding task to the model that should do it. Evals run on your repo, not a public leaderboard.

Working

  • Subhead names product and mechanism
  • "Evals run on Velum Labs's repo" is a sharp differentiator
  • Manifesto tone fits anti-lock-in audience

Could improve

  • Headline says nothing concrete about product
  • Zero numbers or proof points in the fold
  • Background art decorates, doesn't demonstrate

CTA

72Fair

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

Velum Labs
Requesty
OpenRouter

Problems

  • 'Request' feels like asking permission
  • waitlist gate, no immediate value
  • no headline echo in label

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Request access form — Email field and CTA sit below the first mobile viewport, hidden until the visitor scrolls.
  2. RouteKit paragraph — Four dense lines of body copy push the only conversion action further down the page.

Information hierarchy

78Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. RouteKit product paragraph — First mention of RouteKit is buried in body text at normal weight, so the headline's 'own Velum Labs's intelligence' promise never resolves into what the product actually is at a glance.
  2. Frontier italic serif — The typeface switch on 'frontier.' pulls the eye to the least informative word in the headline instead of the claim itself.
  3. Footer contact links — founders@ email and @velum_ai handle sit inside the fold as exit paths competing with the single Request access action.