Emergency support and technical rescue
For a company that is in trouble now. Production is failing, the people who understood the system have gone, or delivery has stopped and nobody can say why. The same work as a planned migration, run as an open-ended retainer instead of a scoped project.
What it costs
- Monthly retainer.
- No fixed end date. It runs until you say otherwise.
What you get
- The immediate problem stopped before anything else gets touched.
- The root cause found and written down, so it is not a mystery again next quarter.
- An honest read on how the team is run, and which failures are structural rather than technical.
- Coaching or a reorganization plan where the process is what broke, not the code.
Common questions
How quickly can you start?
Days, not weeks. There is no scoping phase, because an emergency that waits for a scoping phase is not being treated as an emergency.
Do you replace the existing team or work with them?
Work with them, almost always. They know things nobody wrote down. If the team turns out to be the problem, we will say so, but that is a finding, not the starting assumption.
What happens when the emergency is over?
The retainer ends, or it becomes a scoped migration project if the underlying system still needs work. You are not locked into either.
Something on fire right now?
Get someone on itServices
Legacy migration & modernization
Migrate legacy systems, pay down technical debt, clean up AI-generated code.
Fixed cost. Starts with an audit.Codebase & infrastructure audit
Find out what you actually own before you commit to changing it.
8,500 CAD / 6,200 USD / 5,300 EUR per week. One to two weeks.Fixed-price projects
Migration, modernization, or a clean build. One number, agreed up front.
Fixed price, fixed cost. Send an RFP.Maintenance contract
Someone on the hook for the system after launch.
Hourly. Three month minimum. No end date.Fractional CTO
Technical direction without a full-time executive hire.
Hourly. No retainer.Full product ownership
One team accountable for the product end to end.
Fixed cost per phase, or hourly.Agentic workflow adoption
Get coding agents into the team without losing the review process.
Hourly.