Service category
App Recovery
For software that runs but cannot be trusted. We find what is actually wrong, protect the parts that already work, and repair the findings that carry real business risk.
The situations we handle
Recovery is not one problem
These arrive looking different and often share the same underlying cause: nobody senior has ever examined the parts the build cannot check.
AI-assisted applications that stalled
Assembled quickly and impressively, then stopped progressing. The structure usually holds up; specific decisions inside it do not. This is the most common situation we see, and it is very rarely a lost cause.
Inherited or abandoned codebases
A developer or agency left and the knowledge went with them. The code runs. Nobody can safely change it. We establish what it does, where the risk sits, and how to work on it without breaking things.
Nearly launch-ready, quietly unsafe
Everything renders and every button works, which is exactly why nobody has looked underneath. Authentication, data isolation, and configuration are where we usually find the real problems.
Recurring bugs that never stay fixed
The same failure returns wearing different clothes. That pattern almost always means symptoms are being treated while the cause is untouched.
Multi-tenant data exposure
One customer able to see another customer’s records. Often the security mechanism is switched on and configured so that it permits everything — which passes a casual review.
Deployments that behave differently from local
It works on the machine it was built on and misbehaves in production. Configuration, permissions, and platform defaults are the usual culprits, and none of them show up in a local test run.
Our position
Preserve before rewrite
A rewrite is the most expensive answer to almost any software problem, and it is frequently proposed because reading someone else’s code is harder than replacing it.
In most stalled applications the database design, the routing, the interface, and the core logic are sound. The problems are concentrated in a handful of decisions — how the session is stored, how access is enforced, how configuration is handled. Those can be repaired directly.
We recommend a rewrite when the evidence supports it, and we show you that evidence. We do not start from the assumption.
What this is not
This is not an open-ended “fix my whole app” engagement. Recovery work is scoped from findings, with explicit acceptance criteria and exclusions agreed before implementation.
How recovery usually runs
- 1. Diagnose. A Rescue Triage establishes what is wrong, with evidence, and ranks it by real risk.
- 2. Decide. You receive a written recommendation and a scoped, priced next step. You are free to act on it without us.
- 3. Repair. A Focused App Recovery Sprint implements the agreed findings and proves the result.
Diagnosis first is not a formality. Quoting repair work before knowing the cause produces either a padded estimate or a mid-project scope argument.
Not sure which you need?
Describe the situation. If a Triage is unnecessary — because the problem is already well defined and low risk — we will say so and quote the work directly.