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The link to the accounting package, the carrier, the bank, the supplier — it stopped one day, and somebody started re-keying by hand. That was months ago. The workaround now has its own rules, and its own mistakes.
Fixed scope · 1–5 days · a report you own whether or not you continue.
Integrations break because the service on the other end changed its interface, retired a version or rotated a key. Your system did not change; the world around it did.
Hours of re-keying, and the errors that come with it, are a bill the business pays without an invoice. It is usually larger than the fix.
Often the integration can be rebuilt as a small service beside the system, talking to the new interface, with nothing inside the old application touched.
The inventory matters most here: which integrations exist, which are alive, and what the workaround is actually doing by hand — so the fix covers the whole gap and not the visible half.
We ask for the keys that let us look, not touch. Nothing on a running system is changed in week one.
Code, database, server configuration — a snapshot you keep, so there is always a way back.
Every server, repository, database and integration the business runs on, including the ones nobody remembered.
What is fragile, what is urgent and what it costs to fix, in plain language, with the evidence beside each finding.
This is the bypass in its most common form: a small new piece beside the old system, routing the one broken capability through something modern, while everything else keeps running exactly as it did.
When the problem is real but the system is not worth opening — no budget for a rewrite, or too critical to touch — we build a small service beside it and route the traffic through that. The old system keeps running and keeps its job. Nothing inside it changes.
Thirty minutes, no commitment. If a health check is the right next step, it is from $500, one to five days, and the report is yours whether or not you continue.