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The build has stalled, the money is spent, and nobody will give you a date.

We take over software projects that are late, over budget, or abandoned by the people who started them. First a week of assessment, then a written answer: what is salvageable, what has to be rewritten, and what it will cost to finish.

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How projects arrive

By the time someone calls us, the same three things are usually true.

The estimate stopped meaning anything
Two months became eight. Each new date is met with a smaller explanation than the last.
Nobody can see inside the work
No documentation, no access, no test of whether what was delivered actually functions. You are taking someone's word for it.
The vendor has stopped answering
Or has been dismissed, leaving a partial system, an unpaid invoice and no handover.
The first week

Assessment before commitment, always.

Fixed fee, one week, and the answer is sometimes that the project should be stopped rather than rescued. You get the document either way.

01
What actually exists
Code, infrastructure and access inventoried and run. Not what the status report claims, what is there.
02
Keep, fix or rewrite
Component by component, with the reasoning attached so you can challenge it.
03
A date and a number
Cost and schedule to a working system, with the assumptions listed and the risks priced.
04
Recovery of what you paid for
Source, credentials and accounts identified and transferred, which is often the hardest part of a bad exit.
Why us for this
Rescue work needs an executive and a team on the same day.

A consultant can tell you what went wrong. An agency will quote you a rebuild. This work needs someone senior making the keep-or-rewrite calls while engineers are already inside the system, which is what the single retainer is for.

“Two prior vendors had given up on it. It was running in production inside six weeks.”
Revenue-critical application, inherited mid-failure
Related: application repair, technical assessment, and the CTO seat.

Start with the assessment, not the contract.

One week, fixed fee, written findings. Including the finding that you should not spend any more money on this.

support@semremedy.com 216 200 8232