Sound Familiar?

The Problem

Legacy systems keep businesses running, but they also keep teams up at night.

Mysterious Crashes

Production failures nobody can reproduce. Intermittent issues that vanish when you try to debug them. Logs that tell you nothing useful.

Lost Knowledge

The original developers left years ago. Nobody understands why certain decisions were made. Critical logic lives only in code that nobody dares to read.

Fear of Change

Every fix creates two new bugs. Nobody wants to touch the codebase. Deployments feel like defusing a bomb. The system is held together by hope and duct tape.

Mounting Technical Debt

Feature development grinds to a halt. What used to take a day now takes a week. The backlog grows faster than your team can close it. Everything is slowing down.

Our Method

How We Solve It

Rapid root-cause analysis using a systematic debugging methodology refined over 20 years. We've developed an intuition for where bugs hide in complex systems. We find them in hours, not weeks.

Root Cause Analysis

No band-aid fixes. We trace every issue back to its true origin so it never comes back.

Safe Refactoring

Improving code structure without breaking existing functionality. Every change is deliberate and tested.

Knowledge Recovery

Documenting tribal knowledge and hidden business logic so your team can maintain the system confidently.

Modernization Roadmap

A pragmatic, phased plan for incrementally bringing your system into the modern era without risky rewrites.

Battle-Tested

Technologies We Work With

Extensive experience across the legacy technology landscape.

.NET Framework Legacy Java PHP COBOL Integration SQL Server Oracle Classic ASP

Pricing

Rates

Hourly rate

€80 / hour

Day rate

€640 / day

Prices are final — VAT is not applied (non-VAT payer). Project-based pricing available. First consultation is free.

Ready to Rescue Your System?

Stop losing sleep over legacy bugs. Let's diagnose the root cause and build a path forward — together.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How fast can you diagnose a legacy bug?

Most critical bugs can be diagnosed within a few hours to a couple of days. Our systematic approach — analyzing logs, tracing execution paths, and leveraging pattern recognition from 20+ years of debugging — means we rarely need weeks to find what's wrong. Emergency engagements are available for production-critical issues.

Do you work with systems you've never seen before?

Absolutely. That's actually the majority of our work. Legacy rescue by definition means diving into unfamiliar codebases. We have a refined process for rapidly understanding system architecture, data flows, and business logic — even without documentation. After two decades of reading other people's code, we've gotten very good at it.

Can you modernize our system incrementally?

Yes, and we strongly recommend it. Big-bang rewrites are risky and expensive. Our approach is to identify the highest-value, lowest-risk improvements first — stabilizing the system, adding tests around critical paths, then progressively extracting and modernizing components. You get immediate value while reducing long-term risk.

What if our system has no documentation?

Most legacy systems we encounter have little to no documentation — it's the norm, not the exception. We reverse-engineer the system's architecture and business logic directly from the code, database schemas, and runtime behavior. As part of the engagement, we create documentation that captures this recovered knowledge for your team.

Legacy System Rescue