The founder spent the seed round chasing milestones, dismissed the team, and nearly lost a $100,000 domain. Convert survived by doing the unfashionable thing: serving the customers enterprise software forgot.

A finance student automated the repetitive parts of his internships, learned to build with language models, and moved to San Francisco without a neat map. At Sherpa, Ethan Kinnan is betting that websites should learn from every visitor - and quietly rewrite themselves.