Software Project Rescue & Recovery

Taking over a build that has stalled, broken, or outgrown the team running it — reading it honestly, stabilising what is already in production, and getting delivery moving again. It is the same engineering as a new build, done with less room to guess and someone else's decisions already in the ground.

Yes — most recoveries arrive that way. We need repository access, whatever documentation exists, and one conversation with someone who remembers the history. The previous team's cooperation helps and is not required.

The audit is two days. Stabilisation is a 60-day fixed-scope phase. What comes after depends on what you want shipped — and the audit gives you that date before you commit to any of it.

Usually rescue. A rewrite restarts the clock on every bug you have already found and paid for. We recommend replacing a system when the stack can't be hired for, when the data model is wrong at the root, or when the cost of a change has stopped being predictable — and we bring a number, not an opinion.

Rescue & rewrite engagements run $20K–$80K, quoted as fixed-scope phases once the audit has read the actual code. The audit itself is small and deliberately separate: we don't price work we haven't looked at.

Then that is what the verdict says. The audit covers whether we would take the work at all, and no is an answer we have given before. Some projects don't need an agency — they need one decision.

No. The fastest recoveries keep the people who know the domain. We embed senior engineers into existing teams as a matter of course, and the audit says plainly when the problem is capacity rather than capability.