Rescue & Repair
Get Unstuck: Emergency Rescue
for Blocked Projects
Your roadmap has stalled. Incidents eat your week. Teams are underwater. We diagnose root causes, stabilize systems, and get you shipping again – typically within 2-4 weeks.
The Reality
Brittle systems. Halted roadmap. Incidents eating your week. Teams underwater.
You're blocked not because your team lacks talent—you're blocked because technical debt compounds, architecture decisions made months ago created bottlenecks, and the urgent always crowds out the important. Fire-fighting becomes the default mode. Features stop shipping. Morale craters.
The longer you stay stuck, the more expensive the eventual fix becomes. But rewriting everything isn't realistic either—you need revenue, you have users, and starting from scratch would take six months you don't have.
We've rescued 40+ projects from this exact situation. Most stabilize within 2-4 weeks. Most start shipping new features again within 4-6 weeks. The path forward exists—you need experienced hands who've navigated this terrain before.
How Projects Get Stuck
One Codebase, Two Platforms
Our Rescue Process
We conduct intensive system audits identifying critical vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and architectural debt. This includes code reviews, database analysis, infrastructure evaluation, and team interviews. You receive a prioritized remediation plan with effort estimates and risk assessments—no sugar-coating, just facts.
We establish practices that prevent regression: automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipeline improvements, documentation of critical systems, refactoring of high-risk code paths, and deployment safety procedures. Your team regains confidence to ship features.
Ideal Use Cases
Immediate Stability Issues Production incidents decrease by 60-80% within the first month. Services stop randomly failing. Deployments become predictable. On-call stops being a nightmare. Your team sleeps through the night again.
Response times improve from seconds to milliseconds. Database queries that timed out now complete instantly. Pages that rendered slowly become snappy. Users stop complaining about "the app being slow."
Feature delivery accelerates as technical barriers get removed. PRs that sat for days get reviewed and merged within hours. Deployments that required all-hands attention become routine. Engineering time shifts from fire-fighting to building.
Engineers stop feeling demoralized by endless bugs and technical debt. Confidence returns as the system becomes understandable and maintainable. Senior engineers stop interviewing elsewhere. Your team remembers why they liked building software.
Roadmap commitments become achievable. Sales stops making promises engineering can't keep. Growth initiatives that were delayed can finally ship. Revenue that was blocked by technical limitations starts flowing.
Common Rescue Scenarios
The Startup Outgrowing MVP Architecture
Your product achieved product-market fit. User growth exploded. The system built to validate assumptions now serves thousands of paying customers—and it's cracking under load. We've guided 15+ companies through this exact transition, preserving business continuity while modernizing infrastructure.
The Enterprise Migration Gone Wrong
You committed to migrating legacy systems but underestimated complexity. The new system has bugs the old one didn't. Users are furious. The migration timeline has blown past deadlines. We've rescued 10+ failed migrations, typically completing them within 8-12 additional weeks.
The Agency Handoff Disaster
Your previous development partner delivered code that "works" but can't be maintained or extended. They're gone, and your team can't make sense of the architecture. We've inherited 20+ agency projects, documenting systems and establishing maintainability within 4-6 weeks.
The Founder-Built System at Limits
You bootstrapped your way to revenue with code you wrote personally. It works but doesn't scale. You've hired engineers but they're afraid to touch anything. We've modernized 12+ founder-built systems, preserving core business logic while building for growth.
The Scaling Crisis
Yesterday everything worked fine. Today your database is maxed, servers are crashing, and users can't access the app. Growth is killing you. We've stabilized 8+ scaling emergencies, typically achieving stability within 72 hours and sustainable performance within 2-3 weeks.
What Makes Rescue Work Different
Senior Engineers Only Rescue work demands engineers with 8-12+ years of experience who've seen dozens of architectures, debugged hundreds of production incidents, and modernized legacy systems. Junior engineers practice on new projects—not your emergency.
We start work within 48 hours of contract signature. No three-week onboarding processes. No getting-to-know-you meetings. We dive into code, infrastructure, and problems immediately. Time is revenue when you're stuck.
We tell you what we find, even when it's uncomfortable. If your database design is fundamentally flawed, we say so. If rewrites are inevitable, we explain why. If problems are organizational rather than technical, we don't pretend code will fix them. Honesty accelerates recovery.
Weekly demos, shared Slack channels, real-time access to code repositories. You always know what's happening, what's next, and what risks we're managing. No surprises, no excuses.
We don't just write reports—we fix things. Our engineers commit code, optimize queries, configure infrastructure, and deploy updates. You get working systems, not consulting decks. Outcomes, not presentations.
Rescue isn't about creating dependency—it's about returning capability to your team. We document everything, explain architectural decisions, and ensure your engineers understand not just what we did but why. You're stronger after we leave.
Frequently Asked Questions: Rescue & Repair
Every week stuck costs revenue, users, and team morale. Let's diagnose what's blocking you and build a plan to get you shipping again.