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Choose it when
The application is small and the change is simple.
What it costs
The same dependency again, without documentation. The next takeover is harder.
Take over an application someone else built.
The application the business depends on gets checked backups, visible failures, and changes that are safe to make again. We recover access to the code, hosting, and domains, document the system, and recommend in writing: keep, finish, or replace.
You know this is you when
- Nobody in the company can change the application safely.
- The source code, hosting, or domain is in someone else’s name.
- A needed change has been waiting for months because there is no one to make it.
- The application fails in ways nobody can explain.
- The previous developer answers slowly, or not at all.
Why it is happening now
Software outlives the people who built it. A freelancer moves on, an agency changes focus, an acquisition arrives with a system and no engineers. The business keeps running on the application, and every month without an owner adds risk: no backups checked, no security updates, no one to call when it stops. The way in is an assessment, not a rewrite.
Illustration of a software rescue plan built by Baybloom: access recovered, backups and monitoring in place, the failing flows fixed, and the stalled build finished in phases.
What we would do first
The first steps, in order.
- 01
Secure access
We recover and secure the code, accounts, domains, data, and credentials, with a record of what was recovered and how.
- 02
Assess what is there
The code, the database, the infrastructure, the integrations, and the people who use it, written down.
- 03
Stop the bleeding
Backups, monitoring, security updates, and the fixes that cannot wait.
- 04
Recommend, in writing
Keep and document, finish the build, or replace in phases, with the next scope and its price.
What it looks like after
The application is documented, with a written account of what it does and how it runs. Backups exist and are checked. Failures are visible before customers see them. Changes can be made safely, by us or by whoever you choose next.
Wholesale distributor
The ordering portal gets backups, monitoring, and a written plan while customers keep ordering.
Some wholesale distributors take most of their orders through a portal whose developer is gone, and nobody on staff has the source code or the hosting login. A takeover begins by recovering access and recording what is recovered, then assesses the code and database, adds backups and monitoring, and fixes the failures that cost orders. The written recommendation says whether to keep, finish, or replace the portal. Where keeping it is the answer, modernizing the payment flow is often the first scoped change.
The path from here
What we would build, and for whom.
The service
Software rescue and codebase takeoverStabilize, finish, or replace software the first team left behind.
ReadWhat we build
Replacing a legacy system in phasesRetire the inherited application that runs the business, one workflow at a time, with the old one running alongside until each move is proven.
ReadBy industry
Software companiesShip the integration customers keep asking for, the mobile client, or the modernization your roadmap has no room for, while your engineers stay on the current release.
ReadA guide
How to scope the first release of an operational application.Written for the decision, not the sale.
ReadQuestions
Before you decide.
What companies in this situation ask us first.
We do not have the source code. Is it hopeless?
Rarely. Access can usually be recovered from hosting, repositories, or the previous party. Where it cannot, the assessment says so and the plan starts from what exists.
Will you rewrite it?
Only if the assessment says the foundation cannot support the business, and then in phases with the old system running. Most working systems are worth keeping.
What do we get if we stop after the assessment?
A written assessment, access recovered, and the stabilization already done. It is useful even if another team does the work.
Describe the application.
Tell us the situation and the systems around it.We’ll come back with what we would do first, and what it would take.