Case studies
Inherited app nobody wanted to touch
Operations-heavy business
A business bought a company with custom software the previous developer abandoned — stabilized without a full rebuild, anonymized example.
Problem
After an acquisition, the operations team relied on a half-finished internal app. The original developer was gone, deployments were manual, and critical workflows failed weekly.
What changed
- Audit mapped what could be fixed vs rebuilt
- Stabilized authentication, backups, and the highest-risk workflows first
- Documented the system so a future hire could maintain it
- Deferred full rebuild until the business case was clear
Result
Critical workflows ran reliably within one fix sprint. The team stopped maintaining parallel spreadsheets “just in case.”