Part B: The Lab Count Your Buyer Has to Reconcile
As of July 10, 2026, the junochen.com homepage displays the text "Three live agents built solo" in the Agentic Work section. The carousel beneath that text contains four entries: Carrier IQ, UAT Sentinel, Retail Velocity, and Brand Pulse. All four use the same card structure, the same iframe skeleton, the same visual weight.
Your canonical outreach names three labs: Brand Pulse, Retail Velocity, and Carrier IQ.
A buyer who receives that outreach and lands on this homepage has to reconcile a number they shouldn't have to think about.
What reconciliation costs
The outreach says three. The homepage copy says three. The carousel shows four. UAT Sentinel is the extra entry. It wasn't mentioned in the message that brought the buyer here, but it sits in the same carousel with the same visual treatment as the three labs that were.
Outreach names three labs. Homepage copy says "three." The carousel shows four. Two of those three signals agree, but the one the buyer actually sees and interacts with is the one that doesn't.
This is friction. The buyer's attention shifts from "tell me more about these" to "wait, which ones matter?" That question absorbs cognitive budget you need directed at the work itself.
As the buyer clicks through the carousel, each card gets its moment at full visibility with a highlighted border. None stays subordinated. The carousel treats all four as peers, cycling each into the primary position with identical presentation. Carrier IQ loads as the default active card, which is a small implicit signal. Insufficient on its own. A buyer who just read an outreach message naming three specific labs now sees four undifferentiated entries taking turns at center stage, each labeled "Now showing." The carousel creates momentary hierarchy but never persistent hierarchy. It never communicates which labs are the flagship work and which are supplementary.
Why coherence matters more than count
At this level, buyers pattern-match on coherence between what you claim and what they find. The outreach message is a positioning claim about what you've built and what matters. The homepage is the first piece of evidence for or against that claim. When the evidence contradicts the claim, the buyer reads it as indecision. You haven't figured out what your own work means. That lands as a worse signal than almost any specific wrong answer.
The homepage copy saying "three" while the carousel shows four compounds this. Two conflicting signals from the same page, before the buyer even gets to evaluating the labs themselves.
One more thing worth naming. A Creator Scout subdomain exists and returns HTTP 200 but isn't linked from the homepage or included in the carousel. The inventory has clearly shifted without a corresponding hierarchy decision. Every time the count changes without updating the homepage's structural hierarchy and copy to match, the reconciliation burden on the buyer resets.
Fix sequence
P0: Resolve the text-carousel count mismatch. The homepage says "three." The carousel shows four. Make both layers agree. If UAT Sentinel belongs in the public portfolio, update the copy to "four." If it doesn't belong at the same level, pull it from the carousel. Do not let the page contradict itself.
P1: Create persistent visual hierarchy between canonical and non-canonical labs. Brand Pulse, Retail Velocity, and Carrier IQ are your outreach-grade labs. They should look like it on arrival, without waiting for the carousel to rotate to them. UAT Sentinel, if it stays, should be visually subordinated: smaller card, different section, below the fold, an "additional experiments" grouping. The specific design treatment is yours. The principle is non-negotiable: a buyer arriving from outreach should see the three labs they were told about presented as primary without scanning past work that wasn't mentioned.
P2: Stabilize the inventory. Decide the canonical set. Write it down somewhere that isn't just the homepage HTML. Make the homepage reflect it. Make the outreach reflect it. The chain runs from outreach to homepage to detail page. Every link in that chain tells the same story about what exists and what matters, or the whole chain loses tension.
The outreach is doing its job. The homepage needs to finish that sentence.