Stalled-project assessment
Review the code, infrastructure, access and unfinished work. Separate useful foundations from areas that need repair or replacement.
Appycodes for UK businesses
Get your software project back under control
A stalled build or unreliable live system can put customers, staff and revenue under pressure. We help you establish what you have, address the most urgent technical risks and agree a realistic plan to recover, complete or replace the software.
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Where we can help
We start with the current state of the system and its effect on your business. The findings guide the work, whether you continue with us or use them with another team.
Prototype to supported product
Check authentication, permissions, data integrity and deployment before putting customers through an AI-generated or rapidly built prototype.
Compromised-site recovery
Investigate unauthorised changes, address identified persistence and entry points, and verify the recovery work.
Stabilisation and safe change
Improve backups, testing, monitoring and release procedures so everyday updates become more predictable.
The details we plan with you
Prioritise the business impact
Identify the customer journeys, orders and internal processes that cannot wait. Agree the order of work and acceptable disruption with the team responsible for operations.
Account for customer information
Document which systems and data may be affected. Provide technical findings to the people responsible for privacy, contractual and incident decisions.
Make ownership clear
Inventory repositories, hosting, domains and third-party accounts. Agree access and handover arrangements so recovery does not create another dependency.
Relevant delivery experience
Examples from our published project record, with the scope of the work made clear.
Recovery work on two UK sites
Webshells were discovered and remediated, including their persistence mechanisms rather than only the visible payload. Client identities are not published.
A UK caravan servicing business
A live data-model change from one vehicle per customer to many, using synchronised records to keep the existing system working during migration.
A clear plan from the first conversation
You work with our founder-led engineering team in India. We agree communication, access and delivery responsibilities with your team before work begins.
- 01
Establish the facts
Review available access, code and evidence. Identify immediate risks and the gaps that prevent a reliable assessment.
- 02
Contain and stabilise
Agree and carry out priority work, preserving relevant evidence and checking backups before significant changes.
- 03
Repair and verify
Complete the agreed fixes, test the affected journeys and document what was changed and what remains.
- 04
Prepare ongoing ownership
Set out maintenance, access, monitoring and recovery procedures for your team or an agreed support arrangement.
What you receive.
We agree the scope with you before development starts.
A prioritised assessment
Findings, business impact and a proposed sequence of work, including unresolved questions.
Verified repair work
The agreed remediation or completion work with appropriate functional and security checks.
A clearer operating position
An account and access inventory, technical documentation and a maintenance or handover plan.
Technology chosen around the work
Selected to fit your product, existing systems and delivery requirements.
Cloudflare
WordPress
Laravel
Node.js
Supabase
Docker
GitHub Actions
Sentry
Common questions
01Can you take over a project from another developer?+
Yes, after reviewing access, the codebase and the unfinished work. We establish the current state before committing to a completion scope or recommending a replacement.
02Will we have to rebuild everything?+
Not necessarily. The assessment identifies what can be retained, what needs repair and where replacement is more sensible. We explain the trade-offs so you can decide.
03Can you investigate a compromised website?+
We can scope technical investigation and recovery work, including unauthorised code, access and persistence. Contact us with a summary of the situation so we can confirm availability and the appropriate next step.
04Does the assessment include legal or regulatory advice?+
It provides technical findings and remediation priorities. Your legal, privacy and other responsible advisers determine reporting and contractual obligations using that evidence.
05Can we keep operating while changes are made?+
We plan around the live system and agree the risks of each change. Backups, rehearsals and staged releases may reduce disruption; the approach depends on the condition of the software.
Useful guides and tools
Let’s work out your next step
Describe what has stalled or stopped working. We’ll establish the information needed for an assessment and agree the next practical step.
UK correspondence: Spencer Mawer · spencer@appycodes.com