Deadlines slipped. Replies slowed. Then silence.
You've paid for a product and you're holding a half-finished one, maybe without the source, maybe without the store account. The code isn't the first problem. Trust is - and control. We start there, then we ship.
The project manager changed three times. You were promised seniors and the code reads like a first job - or like it was generated and sold as hand-written.
A new developer looked at it for ten minutes and said "start from scratch". You have no way to know if that's true or just the easiest thing for them to say.
The repo, the hosting, the domain or the store listing are in the contractor's name. Your payouts may be paused. You need control before you need features.
Control first. Then the truth. Then the work.
A consumer app, an investor, a team that had failed. It's live and growing today.
We took over a nutrition app after the previous team ran out of road. Instead of rebuilding the feature list, we re-scoped around what users actually did, rebuilt the scoring on a current scientific standard, and relaunched in a new market. We still run it.
Our oldest backend has been in production since 2012 and survived an exit, a second product line and several generations of engineers. We know what makes software outlive its first team - and we build that in.
You meet the people who do the work. They don't change.
No account managers, no "a new person has joined the call", no juniors sold as seniors. The seniors you meet on day one are the ones in the repo on day ninety.
Everything is in your name from the first commit. Payments tied to milestones you can click. If we don't deliver one, you don't pay for it - and you can leave at any of them.
We don't stretch the engagement. The goal is a product that passes a tech due diligence and a team - yours or ours - that can run it.
Tell us what you have access to and what you don't. We'll tell you what to secure today.
We’re built for fast communication: no forms, no briefs, no call to book. Just write - a senior on the team replies directly.
Software project rescue: taking over a stalled or abandoned build
Failed software projects follow a script. A deadline moves. Then the weekly call gets shorter, then it gets cancelled. Then the person you signed with is replaced by someone who needs everything explained again. Then you ask for the source code and the tone changes. By the time you're reading a page like this one, you've usually lost months, a five- or six-figure sum, and - the part nobody prices - your confidence that software can be bought at all. We've written the first two weeks up as a plan: what to do when your development agency stops responding.
Control before code
The most expensive mistake in a rescue is starting with the code. If the repository, hosting, domain, app-store account, payment provider or analytics are registered to the contractor, you don't own a product - you rent control of one. For small businesses this is where the real damage happens: a store locked, payouts paused, a domain that expires in someone else's inbox. Step zero is an inventory of what is yours on paper but not in practice, and getting it moved. Only then does anyone open the code.
An as-is audit you can use
A rescue audit is not a code review for its own sake. It answers three questions in order: what blocks trust (security, data, payments), what slows delivery (architecture, tests, deployment), and what can wait. It documents the state of the system as found - commit history, test coverage, infrastructure, open vulnerabilities - in language an investor, an insurer or a lawyer can use. Some clients need that document for a claim against the previous contractor. All of them need it to decide what to do next.
Rewrite or refactor?
"Start from scratch" is the easiest thing for a new developer to say and the most expensive thing for you to hear. Sometimes it's right. More often the working parts of the system - the ones your users already depend on - are worth more than the clean architecture a rewrite promises and rarely delivers on schedule. Our default is the strangler approach: keep the product live, replace what's broken piece by piece, and rewrite only where the risk forces it. We write down the reasoning either way.
For investors: a product that passes due diligence
If you've funded a company whose outsourced build has stalled, your concern isn't the code - it's whether the company has an asset at all. We deliver in the vocabulary of technical due diligence: automated tests, CI/CD, readable git history, code reviews, documentation, and ownership in the company's name. The product should survive its builders, including us.
Who this is for
Founders and investors with a stalled or abandoned build. Small and mid-sized businesses whose website, shop or internal tool is held by a contractor who went quiet. Companies whose niche software vendor has become unresponsive and whose platform has stopped moving. Not for apps you built yourself with AI tools and need finished - that's a different situation, covered under vibe-coded → production.
Frequently asked
Yes. Getting it is step zero, and there's usually more leverage than you think - contracts, payment history, platform policies. If it truly can't be recovered, the audit tells you what rebuilding costs before you commit.
Within a day. Control and audit take days to two weeks depending on size. You'll have a written picture before you spend on development.
We earn more by being right than by being big. The audit is written so you can hand it to another team; the recommendation has to survive that.
We're in Slovenia, EU, invoicing with EU VAT. We're not the cheapest option and we don't try to be - the cheapest option is how you got here.
Good. We help you hire, hand over cleanly, and stay available. Our job ends with you in control, not dependent on us.