Service 02
Something already exists. It has to go further.
Taking over an existing platform, scaling it, or pulling it out of technical debt — including when the previous team is gone and the documentation is one README.
Measure first, build second
We do not start by writing code but by establishing what is there: where the coverage sits, where the slowness sits, which dependencies are stale, and which parts nobody dares touch any more. That last one is usually the most interesting.
What comes out is a map of what is broken, what is expensive, and what is merely ugly. Those three have different answers, and it is a waste of budget to spend it on the third category.
Taking over without a standstill
A handover is mostly a knowledge problem. We read the code, run it, and write tests where it is going to hurt — those tests double as the documentation that was missing. The handover is finished only once we can make a change without praying.
Meanwhile your product keeps running. We do not put a migration on the agenda before we understand why something is the way it is; half the strange constructions in an old codebase turn out to have had a good reason.
Scaling is rarely a server question
When something slows down under growth, it is almost never the machine. It is a query that fires another query per row, a report that reads the whole history, or a job running synchronously while the user waits.
Those are cheap repairs once you know which one it is. So we measure first and buy capacity second — a bigger server is the most expensive way to hide an N+1.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work in a codebase that is not yours?
Almost always, and usually it is the most interesting work. We do not ask for a rewrite. Proposing a rewrite is the easiest way to get out from under someone else's code, and it is almost never the cheapest answer.
What if there are no tests?
Then we write them first, and only where a mistake costs money or trust. Chasing full coverage on an existing system is a waste; coverage on money, permissions and integrations never is.
Can you take over maintenance?
Yes. On our own products a crew of AI agents does that overnight, removing dead code and filling test gaps; we set up the same pattern on your repository, behind the same gates. You get a summary every morning of what happened.
Let's talk
What are we building?
One conversation is enough to know whether we fit. Tell us what you have in mind — we will tell you how fast it can happen, and whether we are the right people for it.