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Above the fold:
what your homepage is actually saying.

Every element in a B2B hero section communicates something — whether you meant it or not. Six hotspots on the signal each one sends, how it fails, and how to audit it on your own site.

Trusted by teams atGeneric B2B SaaS hero pattern. Not a specific company.
§01 of 06 · Element

The headline (H1)

What this element signals
The mental model the visitor is supposed to install in the first three seconds — is this a category, a buyer, a promise, or a feature?
How it fails
The H1 names a capability ('AI-powered workflow automation') instead of a category or an outcome. Visitors who don't already know the category bounce.
How to audit it
Read the H1 cold, out loud, to someone who doesn't work at the company. Ask them who this is for and what it does. If they hedge, the H1 is a feature.

The illustration above is a stylized generic B2B SaaS hero pattern. It does not represent any specific company’s homepage.

How to use this

Read your own hero the way a buyer does.

  • Audit your hero with a stopwatch.

    Open the figure next to your own homepage. Give yourself three seconds per element. Note the signal each one is sending — including the ones you didn't mean to send.

  • Brief a redesign.

    Share the six hotspots before the first whiteboard session. Design and copy lead arrive with the same vocabulary for what each zone is trying to do — and what it should not try to do.

  • Triangulate with competitors.

    Pull three competitor heroes and walk them through the same six elements. The pattern of where they align and where they differ is often the clearest read on category dynamics you'll get all quarter.

Run the same six on your live hero

The figure teaches the read. The audit does the read.

Stratridge’s Positioning Audit scores your hero against the same six elements — and the seven other sections of your homepage — with the evidence quoted back from your own pages. Ninety seconds, no login.

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