Sprint Studio / Capabilities / Rescue & rebuild
The original team's long gone, the last agency made it worse, and shipping anything new takes two weeks of staring. We triage the codebase, ship the next thing your business actually needs, and write you an honest note on what to do with the rest.
If three or more of these are true, you have a rescue engagement on your hands — not a feature roadmap problem.
One senior engineer in your repo for two weeks. Reads the code, runs the system end-to-end, talks to whoever's left. Comes back with a written triage: what's salvageable, what isn't, what the next-shipping unit-of-work is, what the cheapest path to stable looks like.
You pick the most valuable thing on the audit list — usually a feature your business has been waiting six months for — and we ship it. Through the existing codebase, not around it. That's how you find out whether the system is salvageable or whether the rebuild conversation is the real one.
Deploys green. CI useful again. The two scariest scripts on the box committed to the repo and documented. Observability wired in so you can tell when something breaks before a customer does.
At handover: a one-page note on what should happen next. Sometimes “keep going, it's fine” — sometimes “the rebuild is now the cheapest option, here's the shape of it.” We'll happily run the rebuild as a follow-on engagement — or hand you the note and let your in-house team do it.
We're a web studio. We rescue web codebases. There are some shapes of inherited project we'll politely decline so we don't do you a half-service:
When in doubt, send us the repo URL. We'll tell you straight whether it's ours to fix.