Table layouts, inline styles, a stylesheet nobody has opened since 2016 — the AI reads what renders, not what's underneath, and returns clean responsive markup in its place.
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Converting a legacy site without a rebuild project
The reason old sites survive long past their expiry date is that replacing them is quoted as a project. Conversion is a smaller question than replacement: can this page's content be expressed in current markup, and what breaks if it is?
The source doesn't have to be clean
Legacy sites are frequently built on things nobody wants to touch — nested tables, inline styles, a stylesheet with three generations of overrides, markup emitted by a CMS that shut down years ago.
None of that gets in the way, because the conversion works from the rendered page rather than the source. Whatever produced the HTML, what the AI reads is the page a visitor sees.
What you get back is maintainable
The output is semantic HTML with a modern stylesheet: real heading levels, a consistent spacing scale, layout handled with current CSS rather than spacer images and floats.
That matters more than appearance for a legacy conversion. The reason the old site never got updated is usually that nobody could safely change it. Markup a developer can read restores that option.
Convert in stages
You don't have to switch the whole site at once. Converting one high-traffic page, deploying it, and watching what happens is a much smaller commitment than a full migration — and it gives you a real comparison rather than a projection.
Because each run takes a URL, staged conversion is the default way of working rather than a special case.
Common questions
Does it work on sites built with tables and inline styles?
Yes. Conversion reads the rendered page, so how the HTML was produced doesn't affect it.
Will forms and interactive elements carry over?
The visual structure comes across; server-side behaviour does not. A contact form arrives as a styled form that still needs pointing at your endpoint.
Can I convert a site that's behind a login?
No — it needs a publicly reachable URL to read the page. For a private site, convert a public page with the same template and reuse the result.
What happens to my old URLs?
That's yours to control at deploy time. If you keep the same paths nothing changes; if you restructure, 301-redirect the old paths to the new ones so existing links and rankings follow.
Convert one page, deploy it, and decide about the rest with evidence in hand.