Software Project Rescue
Stuck software project? I take over and finish it.
Agency vanished. Developer quit. Build half done and nobody will touch it. I rescue stuck and abandoned software projects: audit the code, stabilise production, document everything and get it shipping again. You get an honest assessment before you spend another rupee.
Sound familiar?
- Your agency stopped replying, or the developer who built it has left
- Deadlines slip every month and nobody can explain why
- The product half works, but nobody dares touch the code
- You are paying for changes that used to take days and now take weeks
- You do not have access to your own repository or servers
- A vendor quote to finish feels suspiciously like starting over
A note from me
Rescue calls are my favourite ones, honestly. By the time someone reaches this page they have usually been strung along for months and expect more bad news. The first thing you get from me is the truth about what you actually have. It is often better than you fear.
~ Akash
How a rescue works
Audit
Read only review of code, infrastructure and access. You get a written report: what exists, what is broken, what it costs to fix. Fixed price, no commitment beyond it.
Stabilise
Stop the bleeding: production issues fixed, access recovered, backups running, the system safe to change again.
Document
The tribal knowledge that vanished with your last developer gets written down, so this never happens to you twice.
Ship
The roadmap restarts. Weekly working demos, honest estimates, and code you fully own from day one.
Rescues that made it back
Purvanchal Bioregional GIS
Inherited, now liveA geospatial dashboard left behind by an earlier team: stabilised, documentation rebuilt, returned to production for Jagriti.
OnlineStudy4U
Outage resolvedA down platform root caused to three plugin misconfigurations; three sites backed up and about 9,500 subscribers recovered.
Bengaluru IAS Academy
Legacy rebuildA WordPress platform outgrown by the business, rebuilt into a modern stack with a student portal, content migrated intact.
What stuck founders ask me first
Our agency disappeared mid project. Can you take it over?
Yes, this is exactly what a rescue is. I start with a read only audit of whatever you have: the repository, the server, the half working product. Within days you know what exists, what is salvageable and what it takes to finish. Then we either finish it together or you walk away with an honest written report.
Is our half built code salvageable, or do we start over?
Usually more is salvageable than you fear, and I will tell you either way. I have inherited codebases other teams left behind, including a geospatial platform that is now stabilised, documented and back in production. Rebuilding from zero is the last resort, not the sales pitch.
We do not have access to our own code or servers. Now what?
This happens more often than you would think. We map what you legally own, recover what is recoverable from deployments and backups, and where code is truly gone, plan the shortest path to a system you fully control this time.
What does a rescue cost?
The audit is a fixed, small engagement with a written report: findings, risks and a costed path forward. The rescue itself is scoped from that report, so you never commit to the big number blind. The first 30 minute assessment call is free.
Will you work with our existing developer or vendor?
Yes, if they are still around. Sometimes the fix is process and architecture, not replacement. My report says what is actually wrong, which is occasionally nothing more than a project that needed a technical owner.
How fast can you start?
Audits typically start within a week. If your system is down in production right now, say so on the call and we triage the same week.
Every month stuck costs more than the rescue.
Bring whatever you have to a free 30 minute call. You leave knowing exactly where your project stands.