How Did Ryan Hickman Turn the End of MeVee Into Epic AI's Crane?

Winding down MeVee, Ryan Hickman felt he owed angel investors who were not venture funds trained to lose money. People kept asking for a clone, a MeVee for churches or for sports. He and co-founder Tomer Dicturel looked for a way to automate the work, return the capital, and close MeVee. The result was Crane, at Epic AI. A customer uploads screens. Computer vision and knowledge graphs guess the next step, the way Gmail finishes a sentence, finding buttons and text the way a self-driving system finds a curb. Crane rebuilds layout, color, and the link from screen to server. They shipped the clones and shut MeVee. Many buyers, he says, did not understand how software is produced.