The Legacy Leviathan held the business up while nobody dared touch it. Then you called in the Modernizers, and they swapped it out one brick at a time. You stayed in charge. Now, the plan.
A current, secure system, and no day when the business stopped.
Three steps, in plain words. Your team stays in charge the whole way.
The plan
Three steps. Start with one.
1A leader plans the safest steps
Bring an aging system up to date, piece by piece, without stopping the business.
2Engineers modernize one piece at a time, with tests
Every change passes automated tests and security checks.
3The old system runs until the new one is proven
No day when the business stopped.
What we promise
- You call the shots.Your team keeps the priorities and the decisions.
- No surprises.Nothing starts until you have signed off on a written job spec and its price.
- Every change checked.A principal engineer reviews every change. Tests and security checks run before you see it.
IN BUILD - Nothing hidden.You can see every piece of work and who holds it.
STATED - In writing.Each legal question gets a written answer before you sign.
TO BE WRITTEN
Questions you will have
Why not rewrite it all at once?
One piece at a time, with the old system running.Rewriting it all at once feels too risky, and for good reason.
What does it cost?
A written price before anything starts.Your plan arrives with a price, by email, before anything starts. Leadership is a set number of days each month. Engineering is a written job spec for the build, then a monthly fee for upkeep: security, fixes, small changes and backups. New features are priced separately. Outside services the system uses, such as phone, messaging or AI services, are paid by you.
What about my team?
They stay in charge.Your team keeps the priorities and the decisions. We work beside them and answer to you; we are not here to replace anyone. At handover Level 1 they read and audit the code and approve changes before anything ships.
What will legal ask?
Three questions, answered in writing.Three questions come up most: who answers if it breaks, who owns the code and the data, and what AI tools may see. Each gets a written answer before you sign. Where one is not written yet, this site says so.
Three jobs to look at
Real jobs you can look at, each with its own case. Custom software, fractional leadership and advisory in one package.
Nairobi
Rebuilt Nairobi Control from scratch with a fully custom interface, keeping its link to the firmware unchanged; control of one Nairobi or a whole group at once over Bluetooth Mesh; wireless firmware updates through a private, verified update service; a test harness that runs the real firmware code beside the app; and automated build, security and release pipelines.
Read the caseKentucky College of Art + Design
One admissions portal for staff with single sign-on and role-based access, merging each applicant into a single record, with built-in document signing, approval routing that produces documents such as award letters, and student-privacy controls that log every time a record is opened; a student portal with secure link sign-in where each student sees their whole checklist and timeline; a scheduling app that replaces Calendly; texting, custom email, notifications and alerts; and custom integrations with the systems they already use.
Read the caseFirst Class Ops
A suite of 27 online tools with bundles, checkout through Stripe and a custom payment integration, a customer portal and an admin console; sign-up from an ad straight into the suite; CRM tags for new, cancelled and returning customers; and a usage page that shows which customers are drifting away.
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