# Marcus Trevino, Director of Sales Enablement at Fieldpoint Systems — read of linkedin-profile-weakness-scorer, June 9 2026 > 11 years in B2B sales and enablement, currently managing a team of 6 reps at a 180-person SaaS company outside Austin. My tool stack is Salesloft, Gong, Sales Navigator, and too many Notion docs nobody reads. I coach my 9-year-old's baseball team on Saturday mornings and I eat lunch at my desk most days. --- ## How I got here Searched "LinkedIn profile audit tool sales team" on Google because my VP of Sales asked me to "do something about the team's LinkedIn presence" in our last QBR. Vague ask, classic. This came up on page one. I've looked at Shield Analytics, Taplio, and one other tool I can't remember the name of this week alone. I clicked because the URL had "weakness scorer" in it and that framing actually sounded useful for a team audit conversation. --- ## What I clicked first The hero subhead pulled me in a little: "Audit profiles against documented standards. Identify weaknesses. Generate polished rewrites in 90 seconds." I appreciate that it leads with what it does instead of "Transform your professional journey." But then I hit this: > "Research shows optimized profiles with strong headlines, comprehensive summaries, and keyword-rich experience sections receive 40% more inbound messages and connection requests than average profiles." There's no link. No source. "Research shows" with no citation in 2026 is the verbal equivalent of a stock photo of a handshake. I kept reading but I noted it. --- ## Where I paused Scrolled past the pricing (which is fine, $49/mo for unlimited is reasonable) and landed on this section near the bottom: > "Honest disclosure: we don't have live customers on this idea yet. We shipped the strategy package; you ship the customer conversations." That stopped me cold. Then I read the surrounding context. This isn't a live product. This is a product idea for sale, from something called the "Wishdeal Factory." The page is selling a dossier and a code starter so *I* can build and operate this tool. That's a completely different thing than what the hero presents. The hero says "Start Your Audit." The footer says "we don't have live customers on this idea yet." Those two things cannot coexist on the same page without serious trust damage. --- ## What I distrusted Two things, one small and one big. Small: the footer copy says "LinkedIn Profile Weakness Scorer helps thousands of professionals and agencies optimize their LinkedIn presence." Then 200 pixels above that it admits there are zero live customers. That's not an accident. That's template copy that wasn't cleaned up. It reads like they copied a finished-product footer onto an idea-for-sale landing page. Big: the entire page is structured to look like a product I can use today. The pricing table has "Start Free Trial" and "Get Started" buttons. The "How It Works" steps read like onboarding instructions. A normal person reading this page -- not someone who happened to scroll to the Wishdeal scoring section -- would have no idea they're buying a business idea, not a SaaS subscription. I'm not sure if that's intentional misdirection or just sloppy page architecture, but either way it's the kind of thing that makes me not want to give anyone my credit card. --- ## What would convince me If this were a real product, I'd want one thing: a screen recording of an actual audit on a real (even anonymized) LinkedIn profile, showing the score breakdown, the weakness findings, and at least one of the AI rewrites side by side with the original. Not a demo with fake data. A real profile, real output, 90 seconds on a timer. The "40% more inbound messages" claim needs a real citation or a customer testimonial that quantifies it. Something like "After updating my headline based on the audit, I went from 3 inbound connection requests a week to 11" is more believable than a research stat with no author. If this is the idea-marketplace version and I'm the potential builder/operator: I'd want to see one real audit output, even from a beta user, before I spent $99 on the starter package. The Fermi math showing "-$14,432 year-1 take-home" is admirably honest but also a strong reason not to build this. --- ## What I'd ask in an email reply 1. The page shows two very different things -- a product I can use today, and a product idea I can buy and build. Which one is it right now? Is there a live product I can log into, or is the $12/mo plan not yet functional? 2. The bulk API for team audits is what I actually care about. Can you show me what that output looks like for a 10-person sales team? Specifically: does it give me a ranked list of who needs the most work, or is it 10 separate PDFs I have to manually compare? 3. The "documented LinkedIn best practices" your system audits against -- where are those documented? LinkedIn changes its algorithm, its search rankings, its profile format. How often does your scoring model update, and who decides what counts as a "best practice"? --- ## Verdict: dismissive Not of the concept -- the concept is genuinely useful and the pricing is sane. Dismissive of this specific page, because it presents itself as a live product while quietly admitting it has no customers. If I came back and found a real working product with a 10-minute free trial and no credit card required, I'd probably sign up. As of today, I'm closing the tab. --- *Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-06-09. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*