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# The first phone screen explains how the site is built, not what it is about

Open · high severity · failure · newsroom.sgit.ai

## What we saw

At 390×844 the first screen holds a two-row header, a "For agents /llms.txt" strip, three lines of metadata, a tagline about method, a second navigation bar and an editor's note. The lead story starts on screen two.

## Why it matters

A contact who taps a link cannot tell in one screen that this is a publication about AI agents, security and publishing, or why they were sent it.

## The fix

One sentence on what this is, who writes it, three doors (security, builders, news) and the lead, all on screen one. Everything else moves below or into the menu.

## The record

| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Open |
| **Severity** | High |
| **Kind** | Failure: works against the reader |
| **Product** | [newsroom.sgit.ai](/findings/?product=newsroom.sgit.ai), site |
| **Where** | <https://newsroom.sgit.ai/> |
| **Problems** | [Buried content](/findings/?problem=buried-content), [Builder chrome](/findings/?problem=builder-chrome) |
| **Visibility** | [Obvious](/findings/?visibility=obvious): every reader sees it, every time they reach that point |
| **Recommendation** | [Cut to the essential](/findings/?recommendation=cut-to-the-essential): remove or move down everything that is not the lead, the doors and the next step |
| **Area** | [First visit](/findings/?area=first-visit) |
| **Breaks** | [The first screen is for a stranger](/principles/index.md#stranger-first-screen) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.6.4 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.7.1 |
| **Source** | [Review: first visit](/reviews/newsroom-2026-10-11.md#first-visit-a-contact-arriving-from-a-link) |
| **Prototype** | [Front page & personas](/lab/index.md#newsroom-proto-front), route `first-screen`, in three directions |

Next: [UX-002 The home page is 59 phone screens long, with 845 links](/findings/UX-002.md)