Dev Rescue · code forensics

Your build isn't dead. It's stranded.

Offshore team ghosted you with half-finished code? Months past deadline, barely functioning, no documentation? We run a forensic review, tell you honestly what's salvageable, and finish it right — for a fraction of a start-from-scratch quote.

100% in-houseNorth American team · no offshoring
Honest firstwe'll tell you if it can't be saved
You own itdocumented, maintainable, yours
Sound familiar?

We've seen it dozens of times.

The story barely changes. A cheap quote, a hopeful start, and then the wheels come off. If any of this is you, it isn't your fault — and it usually isn't unrecoverable.

Ghosted mid-build

The developer went quiet with your deposit and a repo only they understand. Now nobody can touch it.

Months past deadline

"Almost done" for a quarter straight. Every new feature breaks two old ones. The timeline is fiction.

Barely functions

It demos if you click in exactly the right order. In real hands it falls over — and there are no tests to catch it.

No docs, no keys, no exit

Undocumented, secrets hard-coded, hosting in someone else's account. You don't actually own your own product.

How rescue works

Diagnose first. Salvage what's good. Finish it right.

We don't open with "rebuild it all" — that's the expensive reflex that benefits us, not you. We open with a forensic review and an honest verdict.

01

Forensic review

Senior engineers read the actual code — architecture, dependencies, security, what runs and what's theatre. Days, not weeks.

02

Salvage verdict

A plain-language report: what's solid, what's beyond saving, and the honest call between rescue and rebuild — with a number attached.

03

Rescue & harden

We keep what's good, replace what isn't, add the tests that were never written, and pull every secret out of the repo.

04

Handover & ownership

Documented, deployed to your accounts, knowledge transferred. Every line is yours — maintainable with or without us.

The salvage report

Most projects are more rescuable than you fear.

A real forensic review separates a broken build from a bad idea. Usually the bones are fine — it's the finishing, testing and security that were skipped. Here's the shape of a typical verdict.

71%typically salvageable
  • Data model & core architecturekeep
  • Business logic worth preservingkeep
  • Untested, fragile UI layerrebuild
  • Hard-coded secrets & auth shortcutsreplace
  • Third-party integrationsrepair
  • Zero automated testsadd
Why hand it to us

The team that finishes what others abandoned.

100% North American, in-house

No offshoring, no subcontracting your rescue to the same model that failed you. Senior engineers in your timezone.

A fraction of starting over

When the architecture is sound, rescuing it costs far less than a fresh build — and ships in weeks, not quarters.

Documented, owned, hardened

You leave with maintainable code, a test suite, rotated secrets, and the keys to your own infrastructure.

Sometimes the honest answer is "don't rescue this." When a rebuild is genuinely cheaper, we'll say so — and show you the math. Either way you leave the review knowing more, with no sales pitch attached.

↳ The same review tells you whether to save it or start clean

Send us the repo nobody can touch.

A forensic review is the free first step. We'll tell you what's salvageable, what it'll take, and whether we're even the right call — honestly, with the numbers in front of you.

ONE ROOF — Rescues stick because everything's in-house — the developers who finish the build sit beside the people who host it, secure it, and keep it running.

No commitment · [email protected] · Toronto, Canada

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