Free teardown · 2026-04-21

illumi.ai

Stripe analytics & MRR tracking for SaaS · public beta · $29–$199/mo


What illumi does well


Top 3 conversion killers

Killer 1

The hero sells an abstraction ("clarity") instead of an outcome

"Financial clarity for your Stripe data" is internally satisfying but externally weak. Nobody wakes up wanting clarity — they wake up dreading the monthly "what's my real MRR?" Slack thread with their co-founder, or the investor update where the numbers have to match. Lead with the moment, not the abstraction.

Killer 2

Zero social proof above the fold — and a "Now in public beta" tag on top

No customer count, no testimonial, no logo wall, no founder tweet embed. The only trust signal is a beta tag, which reads as "no one has trusted this yet." For a product that touches revenue data, the trust bar is higher than a to-do app. One real quote ("illumi caught a $1,800 refund I missed for 3 weeks — Sarah, founder of X") beats the entire feature grid.

Killer 3

The hero demo panel uses obvious fake data

"$47,832 gross revenue · acme@corp.io · dev@mail.com" — the placeholder emails are dead giveaways. A prospect who's skeptical about a beta tool will see this and conclude the product can't produce real screenshots yet. Either use a real (anonymised) customer's dashboard, or strip the demo tile and replace with a 20-second Loom of a real Stripe connect.


Hero rewrite

Before
H1: Financial clarity for your Stripe data Sub: Generate professional reports in seconds. Track revenue, monitor MRR, and reconcile payouts—without the enterprise price tag. CTA: Start free trial · See how it works
After — option A (outcome-led)
H1: Know your real MRR in 60 seconds. Without SQL, without a spreadsheet. Sub: Connect Stripe, get the MRR, LTV and cohort numbers your investors actually ask for. $29/mo. No Sigma, no Baremetrics price tag. CTA (primary): Connect Stripe — see my MRR CTA (secondary): See a sample report (PDF)
Before
H1: Financial clarity for your Stripe data
After — option B (moment-led, sharper)
H1: The investor update is tomorrow. Your MRR number is still wrong. Sub: illumi connects to Stripe and gives you the exact MRR, churn and LTV numbers investors expect — in a report you can forward as-is. CTA: Connect Stripe (free for 14 days)

Why the rewrite works: names a specific moment of pain (investor update, wrong MRR) that the ICP lives through monthly; replaces "clarity" with numbers they can verify (MRR / churn / LTV); replaces "free trial" with an action verb tied to the outcome.


Feature-section fix

Before
Everything you need to understand your Stripe data
After
Six questions Stripe can't answer. illumi can. · What was my actual take-home last month, after fees and refunds? · Is my MRR actually growing, or am I just adding users who'll churn? · Which Stripe transactions are in Tuesday's bank deposit? · Which acquisition channel brings me customers who stay 12+ months? · When do my customers usually churn — month 2 or month 6? · Is my 4.2% churn normal for my ARR range?

This makes the visitor nod yes six times before they scroll, and gives them the vocabulary to pitch illumi to their co-founder.


A/B test to run next

If the variant loses — it's confrontational, so plausible — fall back to option A (outcome-led) as the next arm. Don't go back to "clarity" as-is.

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