A fixed-price review
Senior engineers read the code, check the security fundamentals, map what's running and work out how it deploys. A clear, plain-English picture of where you stand, at a price agreed before we start.
Project rescue
It worked, until it didn't.
Someone built it fast, probably with AI, and for a while it felt like magic. Now they've moved on, or the job never quite got finished, and you're stuck. We see this every week, and it's fixable. Our senior engineers review where you stand for a fixed price, with no judgement.
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What it is
When the person who built it can't take it any further.
The story is usually the same. Someone built your project quickly, with AI doing most of the work, and early progress felt effortless. Then they left, or the job was never really finished. Now you can't deploy, you're not sure how secure it is, and every change you ask for breaks something else. Without deep technical experience in-house, the complexity is now the thing holding your business back, and the frustration keeps building.
That's the moment to bring in experts. It starts with a fixed-price review: senior engineers read the code, check the security fundamentals, map what's actually running and work out how it deploys. Then you choose what happens next: an honest plan for putting it right, or a plan for us to take the project over completely and give it a proper home.
No judgement, genuinely. And everything we find stays confidential, the same as every client we work with. We use AI in our own work too, deliberately and under senior review, so we know exactly where it goes wrong. Read exactly how we use AI.
What you get
Certainty first, then a project that leaves stronger.
Every rescue starts by telling you exactly where you stand, and ends with the things your project never had.
A plan you choose
What to keep, fix or rebuild, in priority order with costs against each step. Or, if you've had enough of owning the problem, a plan for us to take the project over completely.
A project that leaves stronger
Rescued projects leave with the things they never had: tests, a staging environment, monitoring, documentation, and an owner who answers when it matters.
How we work
From "what's even running?" to a system with an owner.
A rescue is a sequence of honest answers, not a leap of faith. You decide at each step, knowing exactly what you're buying.
1
Assess
A fixed-price review of the code, infrastructure and deployment by senior engineers. You get the honest picture, whatever it shows.
2
Plan
A rescue plan in plain English: keep, fix or rebuild, with costs against each step. Or we plan a full takeover and the problem becomes ours.
3
Rescue
We stabilise the urgent problems first, then work through the plan in small, tested steps while the system keeps running.
4
Own
Your project leaves with tests, staging, monitoring and documentation, and a team that stands behind it after it goes live.
FAQ
Straight answers about project rescue.
The questions people ask us before handing over a project that's gone wrong.
It was built with AI and nobody technical owns it. Is that a problem?
No judgement, genuinely. A growing amount of what we rescue was built this way. We use AI ourselves, deliberately and with senior review on everything, so we know exactly what it does well and where it goes wrong.
The person who built it is gone. Can you still help?
Yes. We don't need the original developer. The assessment works from the code and systems themselves, and reading unfamiliar codebases is a core part of what our engineers do.
Who sees what you find?
You do, and nobody else. Everything we find stays confidential, the same as every client we work with, and that's written into our agreements.
What does the assessment cost?
A fixed price agreed before we start, based on the size of the project. No open-ended day rates and no surprises on the invoice.
What if it can't be saved?
Then we tell you, with reasons. Sometimes rebuilding a part costs less than rescuing it, and you'll know that before you spend money on the wrong path.
We're worried about security. Is that part of the review?
Front and centre. We check how credentials and customer data are handled, what's exposed to the internet and who can get at what. Anything urgent gets flagged to you straight away, not saved up for the report.
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Tell us what happened. A senior engineer will assess your project for a fixed price and give you an honest rescue plan, with no judgement and no obligation to go further.