Focused on internal search.
Find Sherpas diagnoses why search returns the wrong results — and maps a clear path to fixing it. Ecommerce and marketplace sites only.
Not SEO. Not CRO. Not a vendor implementation partner.
We do
- •Diagnose ranking, query interpretation, and dead ends
- •Deliver a prioritized roadmap your team can act on
We don't do
- •SEO or marketing work
- •Ongoing embedded consulting
- •Reselling or implementing a platform
Background in search systems
The work behind Find Sherpas comes from years inside large-scale search environments — catalogs with millions of products, multilingual query handling, complex ranking configurations, and search analytics built to measure what actually matters.
Search environments we've worked in
10k–10M+
Catalog scale
High-traffic
Search queries
Complex ranking
Boosting and weighting
Vendor agnostic
Algolia, Elasticsearch, Typesense
Multilingual
European markets
Vendor-agnostic
We work across platforms, not for them. The method stays the same regardless of which engine you run: evaluate with real queries and a structured test set.
Platforms we've worked with
And others. If your search engine returns results, we can evaluate it.
How we audit search
Grounded in real queries and structured relevance evaluation — not sample checks or assumptions.
Query reality
Analyze real queries and patterns.
Relevance evaluation
Structured test sets reveal ranking failures.
Ranking logic
Synonyms, boosts, filters.
Improvement roadmap
Prioritized changes and measurement plan.
What you get
Concrete deliverables your team can act on immediately.
Who we work with
Most often: ecommerce teams, marketplaces, and large-catalog sites. Typically product or engineering leads who own search quality.
Typical situations
- •Search "works", but conversion from search feels low
- •Merch rules and boosts have accumulated — relevance is inconsistent
- •Zero-results are rare, but results still feel wrong
- •You need a test set or evaluation method before making changes
Search engines almost always return something. That makes ranking failures difficult to detect until they quietly start hurting conversion.
Why this studio exists
Find Sherpas exists because diagnosing search quality is a specific skill that sits between product, engineering, and data, and rarely gets the focused attention it needs.
Languages
Audits and query analysis can be conducted in most major European languages.
View all 33 supported languages
Albanian
Basque
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
French
Galician
German
Greek
Icelandic
Irish
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Maltese
Montenegrin
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Ukrainian
Welsh
Excludes Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish.
See something off in your search results?
Send us 3-5 queries that feel wrong and what you expected to see. We'll reply with what we'd investigate.
Not ready to reach out yet? Run the quick search self-assessment first — it takes five minutes and gives you a clearer picture of where issues might be.