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What founders should include on their B2B startup websites

All the most important sections to have on your website to make your brand feel like a bigger player

Author
Sebastian Jagla
Founder at Qubo Studio
updated
24 MAY 2026
Published
20 MAY 2026
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The website is what most B2B founders sleep on in terms of their sales process. They usually think the website is just a marketing tool and they can handle everything in the calls talking to the people. Well, that’s not really true, because your website is a huge credibility test for potential buyers.

When you contact a prospect, they will usually check if you’re not a bot before responding to you. They will go on your twitter/x profile, your Linkedin profile and your website. If any of these looks like they were made in a night to scam people, you’ll be shooting yourself in the foot because people won’t answer your messages as easily.

I see it all the time with founders I speak to. When I send a messaged, they usually go on my website first to see if I’m worth anything. That’s when they see that my website is done well and then they read “Look 10x bigger than you are” and they get curious, because which founder doesn’t want their startup to look bigger?

So in order to help you make the best credibility booster out of your site and make it work for you 24/7, I prepared this (opinionated) breakdown of what a B2B SaaS website should include to win over your prospects.

The pages you need 100%

In general the more pages you start with the better you prepare yourself to optimise later. That’s because when you start wide, you understand what works. Later you can delete the stuff that doesn’t work, create more of what works and do it again and again.

Homepage

Treat this page like your pitch deck. Don’t overload with the details, talk about the problem first and give as many positive outcomes and testimonials as possible. Stay very specific though. We’ll talk about it below.

Your goal here is to entice visitors to explore instead of explaining everything about your project. Talk first about what you do and how you solve the client’s problem(s). Then show some proof of your worth: client logos, testimonials or a demo of your product on actual data.

After that explain the workflow your user will go through on a daily basis. Skip the onboarding and the setup, go straight to the daily task being done. Use screenshots and videos here.

Product / How it works

Here you should show the product in action using screenshots, a short video, or an interactive demo. Organise by use case or workflow, never by features. On this page you are speaking to a buyer who is a technical decision-maker. They want to understand how your product fits into their stack, so don’t talk about outcomes like money saved.

If you find that you are describing a feature or your integration process in more than 2 paragraphs, consider creating a separate page and just leaving a “Read more” link. This will help you understand if people are interested in knowing more, because the clicks will indicate interest.

Pricing

Listen to me. LISTEN TO ME: show your pricing. The "contact us for a quote" approach kills conversion for startups. Gartner's 2024 B2B buying survey found that 83% of B2B buyers prefer to order or pay through digital commerce. Clients don’t want to talk to you. If you're selling a $200-500/month SaaS product and hiding the price, you're filtering out exactly the self-serve buyers who would convert fastest.

If your pricing is genuinely complex (usage-based, enterprise tiers), show at least a starting point and the logic behind it.

You need to understand that the more you show about your project on your website, the easier it will be to sell during calls and on social media. Qubo Studio has the pricing on the website and our calls go very smoothly because clients usually arrive knowing everything about our process!

Use cases or solutions pages (if relevant)

Build these if you serve clearly distinct verticals or personas.

Example A: A cybersecurity startup selling to both SMBs and enterprise SOC teams. Separate pages for every segment make sense here.

Example B: A data analytics tool with one ICP that can use the tool for various workflows. Create use case pages.

Example C: A tool that handles file management for law firms. Create pages based on the client size.

About page

Keep it short. Your buyer wants to know the team is real, competent, and not going to disappear. Founder photos, relevant background, maybe investor logos to reference other companies.

Don’t add a mission statement or "our journey" timelines.

Blog / Resources

Only if you'll actually publish. An empty blog with two posts does more harm than good. If you are doing an investment round, you’ll be too busy to publish, so don’t create a blog.

What you can skip

  • Separate "Features" page (put it on the product page),
  • "Partners" page (unless partnerships are core to your GTM),
  • "Careers" page (use a Notion page), and a
  • "News" page nobody will ever visit.

Homepage structure that converts

The homepage carries the most weight and gets absolutely botched most of the time. Here's what works, section by section:

Hero section

Lead with a clear value proposition and don’t try to be clever. The format that consistently performs: [Outcome] for [specific audience]. Below it, one sentence of supporting context. One primary CTA button ("Start free trial", "Book a demo" or something like that). And a product screenshot or short loop showing the interface.

Don’t try to do a hero video that autoplays with sound, avoid abstract illustrations that could apply to any SaaS, and carousels, because we are still waiting for the second coming of Christ so that somebody clicks on slide 3.

Social proof bar

Immediately below the hero. Logo strip of your customers. If you don't have logos yet, use a specific metric: "Used by 20+ security teams" is better than nothing. Don't fake this with logos of companies that are "in your pipeline", because that could burn potential clients.

Problem / context section

Two to three sentences framing the pain your buyer already feels. Don’t do vague stuff like "the industry is changing", instead go into specifics that anybody working for your ideal client could understand. "Your engineering team spends 12 hours a week building internal dashboards that break every time the schema changes." This validates the reader's experience and earns attention for what comes next.

Product walkthrough

Three to four blocks showing how the product works, in sequence. Use real UI screenshots. Each block: a short heading describing the outcome (not the feature name), one sentence of context, and a visual. This replaces the typical "three feature cards with icons" section that communicates nothing but is loved by Lovable, Claude and all the other overlords.

Results or case studies section

Even one short case study beats a wall of generic benefit statements. Structure it as: company context (one line), problem (one line), result (one line with a specific number). If you don't have case studies yet, use a detailed testimonial quote with name, title, and company.

How it works / Integration section

Technical buyers want to know how your product fits. Show the key integrations (with logos), mention API availability, and describe deployment in one sentence. "Deploys via a single JavaScript snippet" or "Connects to your existing Snowflake instance". Try to present this integration as something easy or reliable, give specifics that reduce perceived friction.

Final CTA section

Repeat the primary CTA from the hero. Don’t add any new information. Just a clean section with the button and maybe one reassurance line ("Free 14-day trial. No credit card required."). That's it.

Content decisions that matter more than design

Design gets all the attention, but only designers stay on boring websites that just look pretty. Here’s how to make your content interesting.

Write for the sceptic

Your visitor doesn't arrive excited. They arrive sceptical, distracted, and comparing you to three other tabs. Every line of copy should address their internal objection. "AI-powered analytics platform" tells them little. "See why your monthly churn increased before your team notices" tells them exactly what they get.

Kill the jargon but don't dumb it down

There's a difference between clarity and oversimplification. Your buyer is a technical founder or CTO. They understand APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure concepts. What they don't understand is your made-up category name or internal terminology. Use industry-standard language. If your product does log analysis, call it log analysis. But try to limit industry words in a single sentence, even people from the industry might not understand language that is too packed with stuff.

Specificity is credibility

"Fast setup" means nothing. "Live in under 15 minutes with a single API call" means something. "We help companies grow" is empty. "Used by 3 of the top 10 European insurtech platforms" is concrete. Every vague claim you make erodes trust, because it tells the visitor you don’t have anything more specific.

Social proof needs hierarchy

Not all social proof is equal. In descending order of impact: named case studies with metrics, testimonials with full attribution (name, title, company), logo strips, aggregate metrics ("500+ teams"), and badges or certifications. So if you have case studies, give them a section on their own and put testimonials as a small subsection underneath. If you have only testimonials, they should be a separate section as well. If you only have logos, they should be a bit more visible than just a strip under the hero section.

Tech stack: what to build with

For a B2B SaaS startup at seed to Series A, your website tech stack should optimise for three things: speed to launch, ease of editing without a developer, and performance.

Framer as the primary platform

Framer is the strongest option for B2B SaaS marketing sites in 2026. It offers design flexibility that page builders like Squarespace can't match, a CMS that handles blog and resources content well enough, and you can start with templates that get you going right away. Your marketing team (or your one marketing person) can update copy, swap images, and publish blog posts without filing a ticket.

The alternative is using Claude and Webflow. Now that Webflow has updated the MCP to be much more powerful, you could tell Claude to build up a website on Webflow and start from 0 this way. The plus you get over just building with Claude is that you get the visual editor and that usually helps in the daily maintenance and quick changes.

At Qubo you always get a website built on Webflow, because that gives you a solid base to work with, but Framer will be more than enough for starting.

Analytics setup

Start with Plausible or Fathom for privacy-friendly, lightweight analytics. Add Google Search Console for SEO data.

Skip Google Analytics 4 unless you specifically need its attribution modelling, because it’s hard to set up and can make your website sluggish as hell. The interface is so bad that I find it hard to motivate myself and search through the data.

If you go the Webflow route, they offer native analytics for an additional monthly cost. It is worth the cost if you actually want to understand where your clients are clicking.

Performance targets

Check your website on PageSpeed to get a good overview of the performance, but don’t stress too much about it. Even Google’s own websites don’t make it to 90/100. The important thing is Google's Core Web Vitals, because they directly impact search visibility. According to Portent's research, a site that loads in 1 second has a conversion rate 3x higher than one loading in 5 seconds.

If you are using Claude or Webflow with MCP, make Claude set all images below the fold to lazy loading and the ones in the hero to eager. This should help a lot. Also, don’t load fonts with Google Font links. Download the font files and upload the files to your website.

Forms and CRM integration

Keep forms simple. Name, email, company, and one qualifying question (company size or use case). Every additional field reduces submissions. Connect forms directly to your CRM (HubSpot's free tier is fine for most startups) via native Webflow integration or Make.com. Building custom form backends at this point is usually pointless and a waste of time.

Common mistakes I see repeatedly

A few patterns that show up in almost every B2B SaaS website audit:

The feature museum

Twelve feature cards with icons and two-line descriptions, all getting equal visual weight. The result: nothing stands out, and the visitor remembers nothing. Prioritise. Make your strongest differentiator the one thing they will remember besides your name.

Copy written for investors

"We're building the operating system for [industry]" sounds bad in a pitch deck, but it sounds worse on a page. On a website, your buyer needs to understand what the product does in concrete terms and you don’t have the privilege of them not being able to leave the room.

No clear next step

The visitor reads the homepage, feels mildly interested, and then... what? If your only CTA is "Book a demo," you're losing everyone who isn't ready for a sales call. Offer a lower-commitment action alongside: free trial, interactive demo, technical documentation, or a relevant resource download.

It’s strange, but websites perform better when there are two CTAs: one that is important and another secondary one. Use it to your advantage and do pairs like “Book a demo” + “See our integrations”. This way you invite the user to explore more if they’re not yet convinced.

Ignoring mobile

I often have to write to startups that I notice, because they vibe coded a website and didn’t even bother to check how it looks on their mobile. I often see images that are cut in a strange way or SVG illustrations that fall apart because some element wanders away from the others. Just make the whole team check twice that all the links are good and maybe take screenshots and ask Claude if it sees something that is off.

Remember that people usually see the mobile version of your website first. Whether they come from Twitter/X or LinkedIn, they will have a quick look from their device and might later look at it from their desktop, so it is important to look good there as well.

Common questions

How many pages should a B2B SaaS website have at launch? Five to seven pages is the sweet spot for most seed-stage startups: homepage, product, pricing, about, and one or two use case or resource pages. You can always add pages as your product and audience expand. Launching with fewer strong pages beats launching with twelve weak ones.

Should I show pricing on my B2B SaaS website? Yes, yes, yes and yes, unless you're selling exclusively to enterprise buyers with custom contracts. For SMB and mid-market SaaS, visible pricing accelerates the buying process and qualifies leads before they hit your pipeline. Even a "starting at $X/month" gives visitors the context they need to self-qualify.

How often should I redesign my SaaS website? A full redesign every 18-24 months is typical, but continuous iteration is better than big-bang redesigns. Update copy and social proof quarterly. Refresh visual design elements annually. Only do a full rebuild when your positioning, product, or target audience fundamentally changes. That’s because grand redesigns often confuse your frequent visitors and they also tank your rankings.

Are Framer and Webflow good enough for a B2B SaaS website?

Framer is a very nice platform and it will serve you well at the beginning. Once you go with a custom design, it’s usually too basic to do nice things with it, so Webflow becomes the better option. Webflow handles the needs of most B2B SaaS startups from seed through Series B. It supports custom design, CMS-driven content, fast performance, and easy updates. You won’t outgrow it for a long time and by the time you’ll have problems with it, it will be your Chief Marketing Officer’s job to think about it.

Should I hire a designer or use a template? Templates work as a starting point if you're pre-funding and need something live in a week. Once you have paying customers and are actively selling, a custom-designed site pays for itself through improved credibility. The difference between a templated SaaS site and a well-designed one is immediately obvious to your buyers since they see dozens of SaaS sites every month and the standards are being raised to a very high level.

Last updated: April 2026

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