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05 A corner few compete for

It runs. Nobody knows how.

A site or a system live in production, with no contact left to whoever built it. No documentation, dated technology, a password nobody can find and nobody who knows how to touch it.

audit.log
10:02no documentation found
10:14dependency unpatched for 4 years
10:31database has no backup routine
11:07business rules live only in the code
14:22structure is recoverable — migrate
14:40action plan delivered

How a rescue goes

  1. Audit

    Establish what is actually there: code, database, integrations and what has already broken.

  2. Documentation

    Write down what was found — including the rules that only ever lived in the code.

  3. Action plan

    Fix, migrate or rebuild, with the cost and the time each route takes.

  4. Execution

    Take the route you chose. Even when that means not hiring us for it.

This is work that asks for mileage, not enthusiasm — twelve years of it is the credential that counts here.

Questions

What people usually ask

I have access to nothing: no server, no code, no passwords.

That’s the most common starting point. Part of the audit is precisely recovering access — domain registration, hosting, database and repository — from whatever the company holds in its own name. It’s investigative work before it’s coding work.

Does the audit commit me to hiring the execution?

No. The action plan is delivered with the cost and time of each route, and it’s yours — including to take to another supplier. Holding a client hostage through lack of information is exactly the problem they came here to solve.

Is it worth fixing, or better to rebuild?

It depends on what the audit finds, and the honest answer is sometimes rebuild. What the audit hands you is the bill for both routes, what each one costs and what each one risks, so the decision is yours and made with the numbers in hand.