Built by an agency or a previous team
It works. It’s just too slow, too expensive or not good enough.
Your product exists and people use it. But every change takes months, every invoice is bigger than the last, or it never quite does what it should. And every option on the market trades one of those for another. Whether you’re letting the agency or team go, or already have, we take it over, keep what works, and ship a new version every week.
You’ll recognise this.
Taking over isn’t starting again. We read what you have, keep the parts that work and fix where the real problem is. Often it’s one part that holds everything else back, not the whole thing.
- A small change was quoted at weeks.
And charged as a change request.
- The plan was fixed in the contract.
Learning something new cost extra, and urgent changes cost much more.
- Nobody on your side can tell whether what was built is any good.
- You’re paying for a team you can’t see.
Or you’ve just let one go and the product is still running.
Keep what works. Change what doesn’t.
You see the first version within one to four weeks, then a new one every week, running where your users are. A demo video of it arrives 24 hours before each weekly call.
One price a week. No change fees.
Agencies usually write into the contract that requirements can’t change, then charge for every change. We charge one price a week, whatever you change. You’re on a call with Mykola, our senior architect, every week. Tell him what your users said, and next week’s work changes to match. Stop after any week.
Yours from day one.
The code is in your GitHub and the cloud accounts are in your company’s name, from the first day. Every version comes with documentation that someone who didn’t write the system has tested, and a written record of every architecture decision. If you ever move on from us too, you hand over working software and written reasons, not a person’s memory.
Volkswagen HR insights · Client · financed by Volkswagen
Volkswagen’s HR insights, made real time.
The client had a system that tracked who was opening which jobs, which skills were in demand and which were being replaced by AI, for Volkswagen’s HR department to plan with. It worked, and it was slow as hell: once a month a batch job ran over the postings, took a few days, and produced a handful of reports. A vacancy opened on 16 September reached a reader around 5 October.
We left the collection alone and changed what held it back. Now a posting opened today is in the database today, years of postings answer a query in a blink, and the team asks questions in plain language instead of waiting for reports.
- Posting to insight: a month
Now the same day.
- Monthly reports
Now questions answered on the spot.
Holding a quote from someone new?
If another agency or a freelancer has quoted to rebuild or take over your product, get a second opinion before you sign. In a CTO Hour, Mykola goes through the quote with you: whether the price and timeline are realistic, what it leaves out, and whether it’s the right way to build what you need. It costs $575CAD $800£425€500, and the hour’s price comes off your first week if you build with us within 30 days.
Fixed spec, or a tender? That works too.
A frozen specification can be a paid first step: we build against it, and you decide who to continue with based on what was delivered.
What it costs.
- Free scoping: free
Share what you have: the code, the documents, what the agency was asked to build. We scope the first version and how many weeks it takes, and you approve the scope before paying anything.
- A version: $5,600CAD $7,900£4,200€4,900
One week of building, ending with something running. Stop after any week, with no notice period.
- After the version
30 days of bug fixes at no charge, then maintenance in tiers by what is kept running.
Questions.
Can you take over a software project from our agency?
Yes. We start from what exists: the code, the documents, and what you know about where it falls short. Free scoping sets the scope of the first version and how many weeks it takes.
Our agency missed its deadline again. How quickly can you start?
Next week, after free scoping. The first new version is running in one to four weeks, depending on what we find.
Will you rewrite everything?
Only if it needs it, and we’ll say why. Usually we keep what works and fix what holds the rest back.
We’ve just let our development team go. Is that a problem?
No. That’s often exactly when people come to us. You don’t need engineers on your side, only someone who knows the product and can decide what it should do.
What do we need to hand over?
Access to the code and the accounts it runs on, whatever documents exist, and an hour a week from whoever decides what the product should do.
Ready to take it over?
Twenty minutes with Mykola, the engineer who would do the work. The first week is scoped free. Holding a new quote? Get a second opinion on it in a CTO Hour.
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