A developer who stopped replying. An agency that quietly wound down. Code you inherited that nobody left in the building understands. We take these on, tell you honestly what you are actually sitting on, and get it moving again.
The check takes two minutes and needs no email address. No contract, no retainer, and every account in your name from day one.
None of it is unusual, and none of it is your fault. It happens to sensible people who did everything they were told to do.
Emails go unanswered. Calls go to voicemail. The last update was weeks ago and you are guessing at whether anything is still being worked on.
The agency folded, was acquired, or simply stopped trading. Nobody is left to ask, and you are not certain who is holding your code.
You paid for something that half works. It demos well enough and falls over the moment a real customer touches it.
It came with the job, the acquisition or the department. It runs, nobody knows how, and everyone is quietly hoping it keeps running.
Hours were billed month after month and you still cannot point at what changed. Every question about scope came back as another estimate.
The repository, the hosting, the domain or the app store account is in someone else's name. You paid for it and you cannot reach it.
Most of what we take on arrives in one of these six states. Almost all of it is recoverable.
Twelve questions about your project and an honest read on how much trouble it is actually in, with a list of what to do about it, most important first.
Two minutes. Your result appears on screen, we do not need your email address to show it, and most of what it recommends costs nothing.
Nobody can price a rescue honestly without reading the code. So we read it first, and you get the truth in writing before you commit to any build work at all.
In plain English, in as much or as little detail as you can face. You do not need to know what is wrong technically. That is our job.
We take ownership of what exists and go through it properly: what is there, what works, what is exposed, and what it would take to finish.
In writing. What you have, what it is worth keeping, what it will cost to put right, and whether starting again would genuinely be cheaper.
Each piece of work is graded into tokens, priced, and approved by you before it starts. From £15 a token, plus VAT. Stop whenever you like.
A developer who has just been handed someone else's code has an obvious incentive to condemn it and quote for a rebuild. It is the easiest recommendation to make and it is frequently the wrong one. We would rather tell you the truth and be the people you call next time.
The assessment is priced up front like everything else, and it is yours. Take it elsewhere if you want to. Plenty of what we learn in a rescue turns into work we never quote for, and that is fine.
Real clients, real handovers, in their own words on the full write-ups.
We rebuilt the app to accepted standards, removing the security vulnerabilities and leaving the client with a basis on which they can build.
Read the full story → Rescue · PropTechA disruptive app challenging the property market, hand-coded from the start and rescued from a WordPress implementation.
Read the full story →Your repository, your hosting, your domain, every account in your name from day one. The code sits there with you, and you have an indefinite licence to use it for your project, change it, and have anyone at all change it, whether or not you are still working with us. Being shut out of your own software is how most people end up needing a rescue in the first place. Walk away whenever you like and take it with you.
You can bring someone else in. You do not need their permission or their cooperation, though it is easier if you have your code, your hosting logins and your domain. If you do not have those, that is the first thing we help you recover. Start by telling us what you have got, even if the answer is almost nothing.
Yes. That is the majority of what we do. We take ownership of the existing code, read it properly, and tell you honestly what state it is in before anyone talks about building anything new.
Only if that is genuinely cheaper for you, and we will show you why. Starting again is the easy recommendation for a developer to make and it is frequently the wrong one. Most of the projects we take on are salvageable, and the money already spent is not always wasted.
No. There is no contract, no retainer and no monthly fee. Every piece of work is priced up front and you approve it one job at a time. If you take the assessment and go elsewhere with it, that is fine.
Your accounts are yours: the repository, the hosting and the domain, in your name from day one. You hold the code and have an indefinite licence to use it for your project, change it, and have anyone else change it, with us or without us. We keep the copyright, which means you cannot sell that code on or use it as the basis of a different product without our agreement. Everything that decides whether you can move is yours, permanently, and being locked out of your own software is how most people end up needing a rescue in the first place.
It depends entirely on what state the project is in, which is why the first step is an assessment rather than a quote. After that, work is graded into tokens and priced before it starts, from £15 a token plus VAT, so you always see the price before you commit to anything. All prices exclude VAT. UK customers pay VAT at 20% at checkout; customers outside the UK pay none.
No judgement, no sales call, and no obligation to do anything with what we tell you. Just a straight read of where your project actually stands.