Overview
When the people who built your application have moved on, every deployment starts to feel risky. We get it working again on a developer laptop, pin dependency versions, add smoke tests, move secrets out of the repository and document how code reaches production. Scanning tools build a first inventory fast, then an engineer confirms every finding before it is included. We finish with an honest opinion on which parts deserve keeping, with estimated cost ranges for each option.
What you receive
- Containerised local development setup with step-by-step setup instructions
- Version review of libraries and frameworks, plus a practical upgrade plan
- Smoke tests for login and your five most important user journeys
- Passwords and keys taken out of source control and placed in environment settings
- End-to-end release process documented, including rollback steps
- Risk register rating each item by severity, effort and likely cost
- A recorded tour of the architecture, made for your engineers
How it runs
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Step - 01
Inventory
We study the code, the database and any existing deployment setup.
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Step - 02
Stabilise
Local setup, pinned dependencies and smoke tests are completed before anything else.
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Step - 03
Document
We describe the architecture, how data moves and the release path in plain language.
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Step - 04
Report
You get the scored risk list plus advice you can take to budget holders.
Timeline: 10 working days, counted from the day we receive what we need from you.
Is it a fit?
A good match for
- Businesses that can no longer contact the original developers or agency
- Systems still running on unsupported framework versions
- Founders weighing a rewrite against maintaining the current system
What we need from you
- Full repository access plus staging or production credentials
- One hour with whoever knows the history behind earlier choices
- Live database access, or else a sanitised export for us to load
Why it helps
- Your engineers work on the code confidently, without guessing how it runs
- Obvious security gaps are found and closed
- A rewrite decision backed by evidence rather than frustration
Questions
Only bugs that stop the smoke tests from passing. Wider fixes are outside this scope and can be priced separately after the risk register has been completed.
The report states that plainly, with evidence to back it. Should the scope need adjusting, we raise it early during the work rather than surprising you at the end.
Please tell us your stack when ordering and we will confirm we can cover it before accepting the order, which avoids unpleasant discoveries later.