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It shipped, and it’s sinking you

Your software works. Barely. And it’s costing you a fortune.

Every release breaks something, your team wants to start over, and the monthly bill keeps growing. I stabilize .NET and Angular apps and cut what they cost to run.

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Sound familiar?

  • Every release breaks something. Your customers find the bugs before your team does.
  • Your developers want to start over. They say the framework can’t scale, or the code is too far gone. You’ve maybe heard this before.
  • Even AI coding tools can’t help. The code is so tangled that AI tools produce more problems than fixes.
  • Adding developers doesn’t help. You keep hiring, and the bug list keeps growing.
  • The bill keeps climbing. You’re paying more every month just to keep it running.

What it’s really costing you

The invoice is only part of it. A buggy system also costs you:

  • Developer hours spent fixing the same problems again and again.
  • An oversized team hired to keep up with the bugs.
  • Slow features your customers are waiting on.
  • Customers who get tired of things breaking.

One client was paying $48K a month for five engineers. Another had spent $1.3M over three years on a system that still kept putting their clients at risk.

Repair or rebuild?

Your team may be telling you the only fix is to start over. Sometimes that’s true. Usually it isn’t.

I look at what actually works, what it would cost to fix, and what it would cost to replace, and I recommend whichever costs you less. I’ll show you the reasoning in plain language.

  • When repair was cheaper: a team was rewriting an app from scratch, claiming Angular couldn’t scale. It could. They just weren’t using it properly. I stabilized the existing app in a month.
  • When rebuilding was cheaper: a company had spent $1.3M on two broken versions. Rebuilding was the cheaper path, and I still kept about a quarter of the existing code.

What I do

  1. Stop the bleeding.

    I fix what’s hurting your customers first, and I make sure you own your code, hosting and accounts.

  2. Make the cost visible.

    I set up bug tracking so you can see what’s being fixed and how fast, and I show you how to use Azure’s pricing calculator so you can see your hosting costs before they hit your bill.

  3. Fix the foundation.

    I correct the architecture so new features stop breaking old ones, and so the code is clean enough for AI coding tools to work with.

  4. Right-size the team.

    Once the system is stable, it usually needs far fewer people. I tell you who’s worth keeping, train them, and set you up with ongoing support at a fraction of what you were paying.

Three systems I stabilized

“The team said Angular couldn't scale. It could.”

A reentry platform that helps incarcerated people find jobs and housing before release · team of 1 to 10

Five engineers were costing $48K a month, and the lead was rewriting the app from scratch. The real problem was that the team wasn’t using Angular properly. I stabilized the app in a month and upgraded it five Angular versions. My work covered what the whole team had been doing, so the owner let the other engineers go. Engineering cost fell to $8.7K a month, and it’s now maintained for under $4K.

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“Two engineers, three months of code, and none of it worked.”

An AI startup · team of 1 to 10

Two AI engineers in a row had built the product’s AI features. When I reviewed the code, nearly all of it had been generated by AI, and features failed because neither engineer understood application architecture. I rewrote 3 months of code in 4 weeks, then spent a month training the engineer in architecture. I wrote the coding standards into the AI agents’ instructions, so the team can now build much of the product with AI agents safely.

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“$1.3M later, it was still breaking.”

A mortgage technology company · team of 1 to 10

The first version was too buggy to ship key features. The second, built by an offshore team at $37K a month for three years, was no better. I rebuilt the backend and frontend in 14 months for $228K, keeping about a quarter of the existing code. Maintenance dropped below $8K a month, then under $2K.

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Stop paying more for software that keeps breaking.

Tell me what’s going on. In 15 minutes, you’ll know whether to repair or rebuild, and roughly what it’ll cost.

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