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Somebody has looked at the system, or at a description of it, and said it all has to go. The number is large, the timeline is long, and you cannot tell whether it is the right answer or the easiest thing to sell.
Fixed scope · 1–5 days · a report you own whether or not you continue.
Nobody has to read the old code to price a new one. That is exactly why the quote arrives before the diagnosis.
Old does not mean broken. A decade-old system with a sound core usually needs its fragile pieces fixed and its edges modernised, not a switchover weekend.
When there is no core to keep — no tests, no source control, logic copied and pasted — the honest answer is to rebuild in slices while the old system keeps running. The point is to know which case you are in before paying for either.
The week that answers the quote. By the end of it the code has been read, and the report says with evidence whether there is a core worth keeping.
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.
The health check is the answer to a rewrite quote: it reads the code and says, with evidence, whether the system is worth keeping. It costs a fraction of the quote, and you keep the report whichever way you decide.
A structured inspection of architecture, source, dependencies, infrastructure, security, database, integrations and deployment. You get a plain-language risk report and a modernization roadmap — what is fragile, what is urgent, and what it costs to fix.
The shipping platform was the case where a rework was the honest answer — decided after reading the code, then delivered in one-week slices with the old platform running throughout.
A shipping platform, rescued
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.