Software Takeover

Take Over Software Built by Someone Else

Inherited a codebase from another agency, a freelancer, or an internal team that moved on? We take it over the honest way: a paid assessment first, then repo and infrastructure access, the security and documentation gaps closed, releases made safe, and the roadmap moving again. No big-bang rewrite unless the numbers demand one.

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Cancel any week. Last week refunded if we didn't blow you away. No hours tracked.

  • 75+ products shipped
  • 10+ years experience
  • No-Bullshit Guarantee
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What you actually inherit

A handover is rarely clean. The people who made the decisions are gone, the documentation is thin or wrong, and nobody is sure what breaks if you touch the wrong file. The real cost of a takeover is not writing code, it is decoding choices someone else never wrote down. We price that risk honestly before we commit to a timeline.

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    Undocumented decisions. Architecture and business rules that live only in the previous team's heads.
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    No clean access. Repos, CI, cloud accounts, DNS, and secrets scattered across personal accounts.
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    Security and dependency debt. Leaked keys, unpatched libraries, and versions that stopped getting fixes.
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    Release fear. No tests, no rollback, so nobody wants to ship and the backlog freezes.
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What the paid takeover assessment covers

One to two weeks, fixed scope. You get a written report you own, whether or not you continue with us.

Existing codebase assessment

Architecture, code quality, hidden coupling, and the quick wins versus the structural risks, mapped in plain language.

Repository and infrastructure access

We inventory and transfer repos, CI/CD, cloud accounts, domains, and secrets into accounts you control. No more single points of failure.

Documentation gaps

We write down what only lived in someone's head: setup, deploy, environment config, and the decisions behind them.

Security and dependency review

Exposed secrets, outdated and vulnerable dependencies, broken access control, and the patch order that actually matters.

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How the handover runs

A staged transition, so production stays up while ownership moves to us.

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Paid assessment

Access, audit, and a written plan with a fixed-price offer before we change significant code.

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Knowledge transfer

We debrief the previous provider or team where possible, and capture what they know before the window closes.

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Stabilisation

We fix what is actively bleeding first: security holes, data risks, and the bugs reaching users.

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Release-risk management

Tests, CI, preview deploys, and one-command rollback, so shipping stops being scary.

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Maintenance and further development

Then we keep it running and build the roadmap again, on a retainer or a signed scope.

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What the assessment tells you to do next

Sometimes a full takeover is the wrong call. The assessment points you to the honest option, even when it earns us less.

Just keep it safe and stable

If you mainly need someone to catch regressions and keep a live product healthy, that is a QA partnership, not a full takeover.

See Software Quality Assurance

It was built with AI tools

If the codebase came out of Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, or similar, the failure modes are different and so is the fix.

See Vibe Coding Rescue

Finish it and keep building

If the goal is new features and a moving roadmap, we take it over and develop it end to end.

See Software Development

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What it costs

The assessment is the only paid step you commit to up front. Everything after it is quoted from what we actually find.

Takeover assessment Fixed scope

One to two weeks, fixed price agreed after a short intro call, credited toward the engagement if you continue. You keep the written report either way.

Takeover and further development Monthly or fixed

Ongoing maintenance and new features on a monthly retainer, or a signed fixed-scope Werkvertrag for a defined piece of work. Quoted after the assessment, never before.

We do not quote a takeover blind. Anyone who gives you a fixed number before reading the code is guessing, and you pay for the guess later.

Switch agencies, or keep your current team?

Sometimes, keep your team.

We have told clients not to switch when the math did not work. Ramp time, reverse-engineering, and lost context can cost more than the original problem. When keeping your team and having us coach them to the finish is the cheaper, faster call, we say so.

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Proof, not promises

FTW Ventures

Wind Down
NFT mint Shipped

Rescued a stalled NFT mint, finished it, and handed back a CMS so non-technical staff could ship without us.

Typescript React Solidity
FUNDS 2022

Bond Analytics Platform

Live
2 months 0 to Enterprise

Institutional bond analytics platform, zero to enterprise-ready in 2 months; raised multiple rounds.

NestJS React Typescript
ENTERPRISE 2022

Twinsoft AI

Live
2 weeks To Sellable MVP

Took a vibe-coded prototype to enterprise pilot-ready, no shortcuts.

Python / Flask LLMs Terraform
AI 2026

These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 75+ products since 2018.

What clients say

Google

Amazingly efficient, professional, and excellent work. I recently worked with Kevin and his team on a large project. I plan on using him again and highly recommend his services.

Robert Reynolds
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LinkedIn

Working with Kevin is a real pleasure. He is curious in understanding challenges and at the same time very intrinsically ambitioned in finding the best solution. On top of his undisputed IT-competence his honest and disarming open mind leads to very inspiring relationships. What I value very much is his personal humility towards people. Kevin is a highly recommendable Software-Engineer and a good person who makes an impact.

Stefan Pirchmoser Head of Brand Management
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Trustpilot

Delivered all work on time, even under tight deadlines. The perfect balance between professional standards and a collaborative working relationship.

MyDevConnect Team
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Independently rated 5.0/5 on Clutch Read the reviews

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FAQs

Taking over software from another provider

End any week, with one message. No notice period, no exit interview, no fine print. We invoice weekly, so the most you’re ever committed to is the current week.
It’s in your contract: tell us, and we refund that week. No questions, no invoices to dispute, no calls to escalate. The only rule: refunds apply to the most recent week.
Because hours are the wrong metric. If we’re optimizing for hours billed, we’re not optimizing for your outcome. The deal is simpler: every week, we earn the next one. If we don’t, you don’t pay. We’re free to spend zero hours or sixty. What matters is whether you’re blown away.
We work with operators, not lottery winners. If a request would require breaking physics, the law, or a third party’s systems, we say so, and if we can’t align, we walk. The guarantee is mutual: you can fire us any week; we can also fire ourselves.
Yes, that is exactly what this is. We inherit codebases from agencies, freelancers, and internal teams that have moved on. The first one to two weeks are an audit: we document the architecture, find the quick wins and the structural risks, and hand you a written plan before we change significant code. We have taken over .NET, PHP/Symfony, Python, and Node projects and modernised them without a big-bang rewrite.
Staged, not overnight. We take read access and run the assessment while your current setup keeps running, transfer repos, CI, cloud, and secrets into accounts you own (our software handover checklist covers what you should receive), then take over releases once tests and rollback are in place. The previous provider is debriefed where possible so knowledge does not walk out the door.
Yes. If the code is sound enough to build on, we go straight from the assessment to new features and a moving roadmap. Most inherited software needs stabilising first, hardening rather than a teardown, and then it is a normal software development engagement from there.
Then a full takeover is overkill. Keeping a live product safe and stable, catching regressions before users do, is our Software Quality Assurance partnership. We will point you there instead of selling you more than you need.
The failure modes are different, so the fix is different. If your app came out of Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, or Replit, see Vibe Coding Rescue , which is built specifically for AI-generated code.
For the assessment: read access to the repository, the CI/CD setup, and any docs. For a full takeover: ownership of the repos, cloud accounts, domains, and secrets, moved into accounts you control. Part of the job is making sure everything lives in your name, not a departed contractor’s personal account.
Fixed scope, priced after a short intro call once we know the size of the codebase, and credited toward the engagement if you continue. You keep the written report regardless. We do not quote the takeover itself before reading the code, because a number given blind is a number you overpay for later.
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