Will you tell us if a rebuild really is better?

Yes, and sometimes we do. A quote for work that will not hold is worth less to both of us than an honest no.

Our last developer left it in bad shape.

That is most of this work. Bad shape is a cost to work around, not a reason to throw away something that otherwise does its job.

Do you work with our in-house team?

Often. Sometimes the job is one hard piece your team does not have time to chase down, and handing it over is cheaper than stopping everything else.

What if it turns out bigger than expected?

You hear that before work starts, not in an invoice afterwards. On an agreed scope, being wrong about the size is our problem.

Custom development

You do not need a rebuild.You need this one thing to work.

Most shops will quote you a full replacement, because starting over is easier than reading somebody else's code. We read the code. Then we quote the actual job, and sometimes we tell you the rebuild really is cheaper, because an honest no is worth more than a quote that will not hold.

What we take on

The jobs that get quoted “rebuild”

A feature nobody could build

It was out of scope, then too hard, then quietly dropped. We will tell you if it is genuinely impractical, but usually it is not.

An integration that keeps breaking

Two systems, one brittle bridge, and a morning lost every time it falls over. Usually fixable properly for less than living with it costs.

Performance

Pages that take eight seconds. Usually a handful of real causes rather than a mystery, and measurable before and after.

The developer is gone

Undocumented, no handover, nobody left who knows how it works. This is most of this work, and it is not a reason to start over by itself.

A platform you cannot leave

Getting your data and your site onto ground you own, with the addresses redirected so the rankings survive.

Accessibility remediation

Fixing what an audit found, in the code, at the source, not with a script that promises to do it for you.

How we quote it

We look before we price.

A custom development job cannot be honestly quoted from a description, so we do not pretend otherwise. We spend time in the actual codebase first, then give you a fixed number for a defined scope, or tell you plainly that the rebuild really is cheaper, if it is.

How it goes

Four steps, no surprises

Tell us what is wrong

Thirty minutes, no charge. In your own words, “nobody can check out on a phone” is a better brief than a feature list.

We look at the code

Read-only access to start. We come back with what is actually going on, which is occasionally not what anyone thought.

A fixed number

For a defined scope, agreed before any work starts. If the scope changes later you get a number for the change first.

The fix, documented

So the next person to open this is not where you are now.

PRICING: FIXED, AFTER WE LOOK
THE FIRST CALL: FREE
STACKS: REACT, NEXT.JS, WORDPRESS, PHP, NODE
DATABASES: POSTGRES, MYSQL
ACCESS NEEDED: READ-ONLY TO START
MINIMUM ENGAGEMENT: NONE

Fair questions.

Will you tell us if a rebuild really is better?
Yes, and sometimes we do. A quote for work that will not hold is worth less to both of us than an honest no.
Our last developer left it in bad shape.
That is most of this work. Bad shape is a cost to work around, not a reason to throw away something that otherwise does its job.
Do you work with our in-house team?
Often. Sometimes the job is one hard piece your team does not have time to chase down, and handing it over is cheaper than stopping everything else.
What if it turns out bigger than expected?
You hear that before work starts, not in an invoice afterwards. On an agreed scope, being wrong about the size is our problem.

Start here

Describe what is broken.

No platform names, no budget bracket. What it does now, what it should do instead. That is enough to tell you whether this is an afternoon or a project.

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