Software take-overs for founders in the US, Europe & Australia
Your developer left. We'll take it from here.
We take over software someone else walked away from: a freelancer who stopped replying, an agency that went quiet, or an AI builder that hit its limit. A fixed-price audit tells you what you actually have. Then we stabilize it, finish it, and hand it back in accounts you own.
- Audit $2K–$5K, fixed before we start
- Report yours to keep
- Everything in your accounts
Three ways software lands on our desk
Which one is yours?
Every rescue starts the same way: the product is half-built or half-broken, customers are waiting, and every new quote begins with “we'd have to rewrite it.” Usually you don't.
A developer or agency left it unfinished
The freelancer stopped answering, the agency missed its third deadline, or the one person who understood the system moved on. We recover access, audit what's there, stabilize it, and finish it.
Software project rescue →It was built with an AI tool
Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, or Cursor got you a working demo. We lock down the data, fix auth and payments, move it onto hosting you own, and make it hold up under real users.
AI-built app rescue →It works, but nobody maintains it
The product is live and the team that built it is gone. We take it into a monthly plan: monitoring, security patches, fixes, and steady improvement, by engineers who read the whole codebase first.
Support & maintenance →Running an agency with a client project in trouble? We take those over under your brand.
Why us
Built for the rescues most firms won't touch.
Sized for real budgets
Many take-over firms publish minimums of $12,000 to $25,000 before they read a line of code. Our audit is $2,000–$5,000, and everything after it is quoted against what the audit found, so a $10,000 problem gets a $10,000 answer.
A straight answer first
A written diagnosis, with a fix-or-rewrite call for each part of the system, before anyone asks you to commit to a rebuild. Sometimes the honest finding is that you need less help than you feared.
Your keys, your accounts
Repos, cloud, domains, app-store listings, and API keys move into accounts you control. It's the step most abandoned projects are missing, and nothing else is safe until it's done.
Leave-able by design
Documented, tested, and deployable by any competent team. We keep clients by being good, not by being the only ones who understand the system.
In sync with your day
We're based in India and flex our hours to overlap yours: a real working window with the US, and near-full overlap with Europe and Australia. You're never waiting a day for a reply during a rescue.
Priced in USD, in public
We quote and invoice in US dollars, and our rates are on the website, so you can hold us, or any other vendor, to the numbers.
How a take-over runs
Diagnosis before prescription.
Four stages, each one has to pass before the next begins. You get a written answer about what you have before anyone asks you to commit to anything.
Take-over audit
Read-only access under NDA. We map the architecture, review the code, check data access and secrets, and send a written report with a fix-or-rewrite call per component and one fixed price.
Secure & stabilize
Ownership moved into your accounts, exposed data locked down, critical bugs fixed, a reliable deployment pipeline and monitoring switched on.
Finish the build
The remaining scope, re-estimated against the real codebase, delivered in two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each.
Hand over or maintain
Documentation, tests on the critical paths, and a walkthrough for your team, or a monthly plan with the engineers who already know the system.
In production
The systems we keep running.
Rescued code moves into the same maintenance discipline as the products we built from scratch. Three of these are live today, and we answer for them every day.
SingCupid.com
Free dating platform, Singapore
A free, Singapore-only dating platform built like a local community: matching and real-time chat, plus region and interest groups, forums, and date guides for one island.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
HawaiiDating.net
Community dating platform, Hawaii
A dating site built like a small town, matching and real-time chat, but also forums, groups, and events for one island community.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Socket.IO
- AWS S3
Eyeon Portal
Digital signage for shopping malls
One desk controlling every promotional screen across a mall group, with paper posters retired for good.
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
SnuggleRead.com
AI-personalized children's books (past project, site no longer live)
Turn a child's name and photo into a printed, one-of-a-kind storybook, with no designer touching the order.
- Node.js
- Puppeteer
- Firebase
- OpenAI
- HTML Canvas
After the rescue
Then we keep building.
Most rescues turn into the next chapter of the product: the features the last team never finished, the mobile app, the AI layer. The same engineers who read the codebase build on it. Budgeting a new build instead? Start with our guide to software development cost.
Support & maintenance
Monitoring, security patches, fixes, and steady improvements, month to month.
Learn more →Web app development
The features the last team never finished, and the next ones on your list.
Learn more →Mobile app development
React Native apps for iOS and Android from one codebase.
Learn more →AI development
LLM features, retrieval, and agents built for production, not demos that stall.
Learn more →Cloud & DevOps
Migration, infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud bills sized to reality.
Learn more →UI/UX design
Interfaces people don't need a manual for, designed alongside the engineering.
Learn more →Custom software
New systems built from scratch, on the same stack we rescue every week.
Learn more →White-label for agencies
Your agency's brand on the work, our engineers behind it.
Learn more →Questions
Before you send the link.
The things most clients ask on the first call.
We take over software that someone else left unfinished, broken, or unmaintained: projects abandoned by freelancers or agencies, and apps built with AI tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit that aren't safe for real users yet. We audit them, stabilize them, finish them, and keep them running. We also build new products from scratch on the same stack. See software project rescue, AI-built app rescue, or all services.
Yes, it's most of what we do. We start with a fixed-price take-over audit so you know exactly what you have, recover access to repos, cloud, domains, and app-store accounts if you don't hold them, then stabilize and finish the build. We don't need the previous team's cooperation to start, though a one-hour handover call helps. See software project rescue.
It starts with a fixed-price audit, $2,000–$5,000 depending on the size of the system, agreed before we begin. The report is yours to keep, even if you take it to another vendor. Stabilization and finishing work are then quoted as fixed prices against what the audit found, paid in milestones. If you stay with us afterwards, maintenance plans run $1,500–$10,000 a month. Everything is on the pricing page.
No. A rewrite is the most expensive answer and rarely the right one. The audit gives a fix-or-rewrite call for each part of the system, with the reasoning, so you can check it with anyone. A full rewrite only makes sense when the foundations (data model, architecture, or security) can't support what you need, and we'll show you the evidence if that's the case.
TypeScript across the whole stack: React and Next.js on the front end, Node.js on the back end, PostgreSQL for data, and React Native for iOS and Android, running on AWS, GCP, or Vercel. Firebase and Supabase backends are common in the apps we take over. Python where AI or data pipelines call for it, and OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models for AI work. If your product runs on a stack we don't work in daily, we'll say so on the first call rather than learn it at your expense.
Yes. A prototype that validates an idea starts at $7,500 and takes 3–6 weeks; a production MVP real customers can rely on starts at $25,000 and takes 2–4 months; full applications start at $50,000. The difference is the engineering a demo never shows: security, tests, monitoring, and edge cases. Full breakdown on the pricing page and in our cost guide, which includes a calculator.
Yes, including taking over a client project that has gone wrong. Our engineers work under your agency's brand and in your tools, with a non-solicitation agreement protecting your client relationships. See white-label development for agencies.
Every take-over and every production build includes 3 months of post-launch bug fixes. After that, most clients move to a maintenance plan covering monitoring, security patches, updates, and small improvements, or hand the documented, tested codebase to their own team. Plan for roughly 15–25% of the build cost per year, whoever maintains it.
Meet the engineers who would actually work on your product, start small with a fixed-price audit or a two-week trial sprint (dedicated developers from $2,800 / month), and look at our live products yourself. We sign an NDA before discussing anything sensitive, we only need read-only access to start, and you own all code and IP from day one.
Have a link? Send it.
Share the repo, the live app, or just describe what happened. You'll get an honest read and, if it's worth doing, a fixed price for the audit. Yours to keep either way.