Stalled software project?Take back control.

• 01

  The agency or freelancer stopped delivering

  Deadlines slip, answers get shorter, invoices keep arriving. You need a second opinion on the code and a plan to move it without losing what was built.
• 02

  An unfinished app you need to launch

  The product is "90% done" and has been for months. The remaining 10% is usually the part nobody scoped: edge cases, payments, store submission, operations.
• 03

  A live product that breaks on every change

  Users are on it, revenue depends on it, and every release introduces a new incident. Stabilization has to happen in flight, without a freeze.
• 04

  The internal team left

  One or two developers held everything in their heads. The code is yours, the knowledge is not. The takeover is mostly recovery and documentation.
• 05

  A business decision to switch vendors

  Cost, time zone, team size, or simply trust. The product works, there is time, and the transition can be planned — which is exactly when the checks tend to get skipped.

A good fit when

• There is an existing product — in production or close to it — and a business reason to keep it alive.
• You can give us read-only access to the code and infrastructure, or arrange it with the previous team.
• You want a written assessment before committing to a longer engagement, and you are prepared to hear "rebuild" if that is the honest answer.
• Someone on your side can sign off on ownership transfers: cloud account, domain, app-store accounts, payment provider.

Not the right fit when

• You need a quote for "finishing the app" without anyone looking at the code. We do not price what we have not seen.
• The goal is a legal dispute with the previous vendor. We document what we find; we are not expert witnesses and this page is not legal advice.
• The product was built with AI tools and the question is specifically about AI-generated code quality — that has its own page.
• The system runs on a technology stack that is end-of-life and the question is modernization rather than responsibility — that also has its own page.

1. 01

   Inventory

   Code repositories, environments and servers, databases and backups, domain and DNS, app-store accounts and signing keys, third-party services and API keys, secrets, work tools, contracts and licenses.

2. 02

   Registered owner versus actual access

   For each row: whose name is the account in, and who holds the credentials. "Unknown" is acceptable at the start of the inventory and unacceptable at its end.

3. 03

   Transfer and rotate

   Accounts registered to the previous team move into your organization. Passwords and keys are rotated at an agreed time with a rollback plan, so a service that stops after a rotation can be restored.

4. 04

   Clean build and backup restore

   The product is built from the repository on a clean machine and compared with production; the latest backup is restored into a test environment. Gaps between what runs and what you hold are the first findings.

• System map

  Which components exist, how they talk to each other, what runs where, and which external services are involved — including anything running in production that is not in the repository.
• Ranked findings

  Each finding with severity, user impact and an effort estimate: critical, important, livable. Not a list of two hundred issues — an order of work.
• Asset and access table

  What is registered to whom, what was transferred, what is still open. The document that prevents the "who has the password" question a year from now.
• Keep, refactor or rebuild — with reasons

  A recommendation and a proposed first phase. If rebuilding is the honest answer, we say so and point you to the right service; it is our second choice, not our default.

1. A first, small, non-critical change goes all the way through: code, test, deploy to production. If the deployment path does not match the documented process, the process is fixed before the next change.
2. Security and data integrity first: exposed secrets, missing authorization checks, backups that have never been restored.
3. Stability second: the incidents users actually hit, with tests that stop them from coming back.
4. Then the unfinished scope — specified in writing, estimated against the diagnosis, and shipped in sprints with a version you can open after each one.
5. Documentation and a handover record are written as we go, so the product does not depend on us any more than it depended on the previous team.

• Production may not match the repository

  If the code running for users differs from the code you hold, that is the single most important finding of the takeover — and it can mean the first weeks go to recovery rather than features.
• The previous vendor's contract

  If accounts or the code are registered to the previous vendor, the transition starts with ownership transfer, and sometimes that means invoking the contract. We document; your counsel advises.
• Unknowns are documented, not assumed

  When the previous team is unavailable, questions that cannot be answered become listed risks with a mitigation, not guesses that surface later as incidents.
• No timeline before the audit

  We do not quote a duration for a rescue before the access audit and clean build. What we do fix in advance is the order of stages and the conditions for moving between them.

• We build products ourselves

  The people who assess your codebase are the people who design, build and run systems in production. The diagnosis is written by engineers who would have to live with it.
• Access first is a discipline, not a slogan

  No change to the code before ownership is yours and a clean build exists. It is slower in the first week and faster in every week after.
• A document you can take elsewhere

  The assessment is yours whatever you decide next. If the honest recommendation is a rebuild, or a different partner, you hear it from us.
• Led from Miami, in U.S. hours

  Decisions, scoping and reviews happen with leadership that works U.S. hours; one accountable team handles product, design, engineering, QA and DevOps.