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Lytms reads any B2B homepage the way a buyer does — then scores it across five things and shows every line that costs the visit. What you’re looking at is a live, public scan.
Scored cold, the way a skeptical buyer reads it. No rounding up.
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Lytms score
6.0 / 10
What a buyer asks in 5 seconds
"What is this?"
The verdict

Your page hides the one thing developers actually decide on — pricing — behind a sales call no one wants to make.

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Lytms found 9 places where the story breaks across five scored areas. The top 3 below — each named, quoted, and answered.
The line costing you the most5-min fix
What the scan flagged

Connect to real-time insights on the Plaid Network to create fast, safe, and smart financial experiences.

Your hero subheadline describes the category, not Plaid.
The fix

Pull one hard network fact into the subheadline — the gap between 12K banks and whatever the next platform connects to is the actual story. Let the adjectives go and name the scale.

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The subheadline is the first thing a developer reads after your headline, and it spends that moment on three adjectives — fast, safe, smart — that every competitor uses too. Your actual moat is right there in the stats below: 12K banks,...

Ship this one line, re-scan, watch the score move. This fix is free; the line-by-line rewrites are on Pro.
How a buyer actually reads it

A buyer runs five checks before they act — in this order. Lose one and they never reach the next.

Not five scoring areas. Five questions, asked in sequence. The page is judged on how many it answers before the visitor gives up.

01
"What is this?"
The subheadline is the first thing a developer reads after your headline, and it spends that moment on three adjectives — fast, safe, smart — that every competitor uses too. Your actual moat is right there in the stats below: 12K banks,...
Unanswered
02
"Is this for me?"
The page has one nod to consumers — a single footer line pointing to Plaid Portal — and nothing else for the 44% of visitors who arrive looking for help with ACH payments, routing numbers, or cash advance apps. That's a...
Unanswered
03
"Why you, not the tool I already have?"
Without a direct contrast against the obvious alternative, the buyer leaves to comparison-shop and rarely comes back.
Unanswered
04
"Can I believe you?"
The named customer logos — Venmo, Robinhood, Carvana, H&R Block — never appear as a direct proof row. Visitors who don't catch the animated notification mockup miss your strongest trust signal entirely.
Unanswered
05
"What do I do now?"
One clear, low-friction action tells the buyer exactly what happens next.
Unanswered
From the scan

3 findings, surfaced. 6 more in the full report.

3 shown
9 across the scan
01Major

Your hero subheadline describes the category, not Plaid.

From the scan

Connect to real-time insights on the Plaid Network to create fast, safe, and smart financial experiences.

The fix
Read the fix →
02Major

The page is built for developers; nearly half the traffic is consumers.

From the scan

The page is aimed squarely at product and engineering teams ready to evaluate an API — 'Get the API keys,' 'Read the docs,' code snippets, B2B social proof. But 24.02% of inbound traffic arrives on problem-aware queries like 'ach payments,' 'checking and routing number,' and 'pay by ach' — consumers looking for banking

The fix
Read the fix →
03Major

The named customer logos — Venmo, Robinhood, Carvana, H&R Block — never appear as a direct proof row.

From the scan

Customer logos are confirmed available but appear only inside an animated notification mockup, not as a static, scannable logo bar. A developer skimming the page at speed will not register these as customer endorsements — they read as UI illustrations.

The fix
Read the fix →
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The rest of the scan

You’ve seen 3 of plaid.com’s 9 findings.
Your homepage has its own.

Every finding named, quoted, and paired with the rewrite — that’s how Lytms reads a page. Run it on your own site to see all of yours, free.

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+Every finding comes with the exact rewrite — copy-paste ready, in the brand’s voice
+The score moves when the page ships a fix — rescan, watch the dial
+One competitor watched daily — same scoring, alert the day they move
+Ads, social and landing-page drafts — generated from the same scan
Every scan reads all five areas. · here’s what’s under 2 of them
Message2 findings here
What we score

Hero value, conversion-killing sentences, cliché density, awareness fit, buyer-language gap, competitive differentiation.

Trust1 finding here
What we score

Proof architecture, named-customer recognition, imagery authenticity, claim-vs-evidence gaps.

Pro

More than the rest of the report. Daily monitoring on plaid.com.

Updated dailyPulse alerts on every move
Pulse

Catch market shifts the day they happen.

A live feed of what the category is moving toward, with a drafted response for the moves worth responding to.

Yesterday on plaid.com
Pulse warms up after your first day on Pro.
Competitors

A rival, scored daily, side-by-side.

Pick one competitor on Pro. Same scoring this page is held to. Same-day alert when they ship a homepage change.

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Audience

The exact phrases buyers use about the brand.

Mine reviews, transcripts, support, social. Ranked, attributed, matched against the homepage.

Phrase mining starts on the first weekly sweep.
Studio

Every fix routed to a queue, ready to ship.

Accept, edit, ship. An action queue tied to a CMS or copied straight to clipboard.

Action queue · ready to ship
9 drafted fixes waiting

This is plaid.com’s scan. What would yours say?

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