Service 02 — Rescue it

It nearly works. Nearly is the hard part.

You built something with AI help. Most of it does what you wanted. But it breaks in ways you cannot explain, you are nervous about real users touching it, and every fix seems to dislodge something else. That is a normal place to end up, and it is fixable.

No judgement

Getting this far was the hard bit for a reason.

AI coding tools are genuinely good at producing something that runs. What they are not good at is the invisible work — the failure cases nobody demonstrates, the security nobody sees, the structure that lets you change one thing without breaking three others. Not knowing that in advance is not a personal failing. It is the current state of the tools.

Step one

An honest read, before anyone commits to anything.

We start by reviewing what you have and telling you the truth about it: what is solid, what is dangerous, what is missing, and what it would take to make it production-ready. You get that assessment whether or not you then hire us — and if the answer is that your build is basically fine, we will say so.

Review

What state is it really in?

A read of the codebase and how it is deployed. Where the real risks are, what is load-bearing, and what has quietly been left unfinished.

Security

What would hurt you

Authentication, access control, exposed data, secrets in the wrong places. The failures that do not announce themselves until they are someone else's news story.

Plan

What it takes to finish

An ordered list of what needs doing, with the difference between "before real users" and "eventually" made explicit — so you can decide how far you want to go.

Step two

Then we finish it — keeping what works.

Rewriting everything is the lazy answer and usually the wrong one. You built something real, and much of it is likely fine. We work with what is there, replacing only what genuinely has to be replaced.

01 — STABILISE

Stop the bleeding

Fix what is actively broken or unsafe, so the thing is no longer a hazard while we work on it.

02 — HARDEN

Make it survivable

Real authentication, sane error handling, backups, monitoring. The parts that matter when something goes wrong at 2am.

03 — FINISH

Close the gap

Complete what was left half-built, and the edge cases that were never considered because nobody hit them yet.

04 — HAND BACK

Yours to run

Deployed, documented and explained — or kept running by us, whichever you would rather.

Before you send us anything

Handing over your code is a risk. We know.

You are being asked to give a stranger the thing you have been working on. Ask us for a mutual NDA and we will sign one before you share a single file.

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    We do not reuse your code What you send us is used to help you, and for nothing else.
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    We do not take your idea We will not build a competing version of what you showed us.
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    We will tell you if you do not need us If it is in better shape than you fear, that is what the review will say.

Send us the thing that will not behave.

Tell us roughly what it is and what it is doing wrong. We will tell you what we think is going on, and what it would take to fix.

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