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Suspiciously round numbers

"10,000+ happy customers", "99.9% satisfaction", "500+ projects delivered", on a company that registered its domain this spring.

Medium tell · 7 points

Real numbers are odd: 1,340 customers, 97.2 percent. Generated numbers are round, end in a plus sign, and come in threes. Check the domain age and the company register before you count this one.

Builders whose defaults include this one

An entry names a builder only when its fingerprints are visible; this tell is one of them for Chatbot copy in any template.

Other tells in copy

  • "In today's fast-paced world": An opening line that begins with the state of the world: "In today's fast-paced digital landscape", "In an ever-evolving market", "Now more than ever".
  • Elevate, unlock, seamless, empower: Headlines and subheads built from the model's favourite verbs: elevate, unlock, empower, streamline, seamless, effortless, next-level, game-changing.
  • Emoji bullets: Lists whose bullets are a rocket, a sparkle, a check mark or a light bulb, usually one per feature, usually the same four.
  • Lorem ipsum shipped: Placeholder text, "Your text here", "Heading 2" or "[Company name]" left on the live site.
  • No sentence only this business could have written: Read every sentence on the home page. None of them names a place, a person, a year, a price, a real customer or a real limitation.
  • Testimonials from Sarah J.: Quotes from "Sarah J., Marketing Manager" and "Michael T., CEO", with generated portraits, praising the product in the product's own vocabulary.
  • The swap-test headline: A headline of the form "Innovative solutions for your business" or "Your reliable partner for X": swap in a competitor's name and nothing changes.

Score a site against every tell in Copy

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NimbusFlow home page: a purple gradient hero with gradient headline text, two pill buttons, and three icon cards belowDemo
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NimbusFlow

nimbusflow.example · SaaS

A workflow tool that elevates, unlocks and empowers, trusted by 10,000 teams that do not exist.

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