Research & observations

What pages say.And what it costs.

A closer look at the language, categories, and competitive claims that shape how buyers see you.

Volume One — Work management
25 homepages · September 2026

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What your homepage is being mistaken for

Two of 25 homepages got sorted out of their own category by their own words. Yours gets sorted too.

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0.00 · shared workspace1.00 · human-agent

22 scored companies. One sits alone in the middle. Two could not be placed on the axis at all.

  1. Asana17
  2. ClickUp16
  3. Monday.com15
  4. Notion7
  5. Nine companies0

Times named as a competitor on the other homepages.

9named by nobody

You name them. They don't name you.

In one category, 9 of 22 companies were named by nobody. All nine name a competitor. None gets named back. Two of them have better pages than the leaders do.

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Six of 25 homepages, one ten-minute capture window.

6same framing, one window

When the whole category moves at once

Six competitors adopted the same framing inside one ten-minute capture window. Six others haven't moved since 2019. Both are defensible. Here's how to tell which one you're doing.

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Each block is one homepage. Filled blocks use the phrase “your team”.

18/23say the same two words

Say something only you could say

The phrase "your team" appears word-for-word on 18 of 23 work management homepages. It isn't bad writing. It just does nothing.

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Score 1
16
Score 2
5
Score 3
0
Score 4
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Score 5

Connection, scored 1 to 5, across 22 companies. Scores 4 and 5 are empty.

0scored above three

Nobody sells the second year

We scored 22 work management homepages on nine things. Eight scores were spread out. One was the same everywhere: not a single page says anything about life after the purchase.

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Uses the language 0–1Page score, of 45
  • Asana0.97
  • Linear0.95
  • Jira0.80
  • ClickUp0.80
  • Hive0.78
  • Basecamp0.05
  • TeamGantt0.05
  • 36Linear
  • 32Basecamp
  • 31TeamGantt
  • 29Asana
  • 26Hive
  • 24ClickUp
  • 19Jira

Same category, same nine elements. Every crossing line is a company whose language and whose page disagree.

19/45the biggest player

A new headline is not a new position

Jira uses the exact words its category is moving toward and scores 19 out of 45. Basecamp refuses them and scores 32. What the gap between those two numbers measures.

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Volume Two — Website builders

Webflow, Framer, Wix Studio and the rest of the category, read against one shared axis.

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