The Trust Tax

Parents check your listing for three things and leave when one is missing.

By the time a parent clicks your ad they have read a registry checklist and fifty reviews, and your page has about a minute to show the one-hand fold, the fabric rating and the washable seat.
A wireframe of the business on a blueprint grid, with one element flagged in gold as the revenue leak
THE LEAK

The parent is running a trust audit built from your competitors' listings.

Registry sites, forums and review threads teach parents what to look for. They arrive with a checklist and scan your page for it. Bury the safety certification or skip the one-hand fold demo and they leave, and your CPA climbs without a single change to the ads.

THE SIGNS

How you can tell you have it

Things you can check yourself this week, with nothing to connect.

01

CPA has risen for two quarters while the creative and the audiences have not changed.

02

The top listings in your category state one-hand fold, fabric protection and washability above the fold and yours does not.

03

Your safety certification exists but sits below the fold or only in the manual.

04

Registry adds and add-to-cart rates trail the category while your review score does not.

WHAT IT COSTS

What this leak costs every month

Every Truth Card prices a gap in dollars a month, on your own unit economics.

$12,100/mo

Modeled monthly gap for a baby gear brand whose hero listing is missing the trust specs parents compare.

Modeled from scan patterns in this category. Company profiles are anonymized composites drawn from real scan patterns. No figure on this page is a measured customer result.

The figure is the paid traffic to the listing, multiplied by the conversion gap against trust-complete rivals, and it includes none of the registry adds you never got.

HOW ONTEVO FINDS IT

The public signals that give it away

The 50-point diagnostic reads you and up to 10 closest competitors the same way, on the same day.

SIGNALS

The scan reads your listing and up to 10 closest competitors' listings for the trust specs parents compare, and reads the parent review and forum corpus for the checklist they arrive with.

Website

The Website pillar finds the trust signals missing above the fold, and Offering & Demand shows which specs the category now expects as standard.

A TRUTH CARD FOR THIS LEAK

What the card would say, in words

An illustrative example. Company profiles are anonymized composites drawn from real scan patterns.

SAMPLE

FINDING

Parents are leaving your stroller page because it does not show the trust specs they came to check.

EVIDENCE

Seven of your ten closest competitors state one-hand fold and a safety certification above the fold, and your listing shows neither in the first screen.

DOLLAR (MODELED)

$12,100/mo, modeled as paid traffic times the conversion gap against trust-complete rivals.

FIX

Visibility Architect drafts the listing rewrite, and you approve it before it goes live.
COMPARE

Where this sits next to what you already run

Two tools you may already pay for, and what the diagnostic adds on top of each one.

Ontevo vs. Yotpo

Yotpo collects and displays your reviews. Ontevo reads them for the trust specs parents ask about and prices each gap per month.

See the Full Comparison

Ontevo vs. Triple Whale

Triple Whale tells you which ad drove the sale. Ontevo tells you why the page under it fails the parent audit.

See the Full Comparison

NEXT STEP

See which trust specs parents are checking for on your listing and not finding.

Plans start at $245/mo per entity, and if the first 30 days do not surface a gap worth more than your plan, your second month is free.

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