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Your business application depends on a single person.

We take over maintenance after reading the code: the knowledge comes out of one person’s head, and changes start moving again.

01 · The situation
“The guy who wrote it retires in a year. Nobody else ever opens that code.”
What we hear — IT department
02 · What it costs you today

Software that runs but that nobody wants to touch costs you three times over: every change is overestimated, every incident depends on one person, and nothing gets decided without them.

This isn’t an IT risk, it’s an operational one — and it materialises the day that person leaves.

03 · What we deliver
What it is
  • A documented takeover phase, before any commitment
  • Corrective and evolutive maintenance taken over by us
  • An included volume of changes, directed by you
  • An open door to modernisation, if the takeover shows what needs rebuilding
What it is not
  • Developers supplied on a time-and-materials basis
  • A takeover without reading the code first
  • A service-level commitment on software whose condition hasn’t been assessed
  • A foot in the door to sell you something else
04 · The first step
Scoping
What can be taken over as it stands, and what can’t

We read the code and its release history, talk to the people who maintain it, and come away with what can be taken over, what must be rebuilt first, and the takeover timeline.

Duration
2 to 3 weeks
Deliverable
The written scope and its price
Scope
The existing software
Preceded by a free thirty-minute call. The price of scoping is stated before we start; the fixed price of the first increment is given once scoping is complete.
05 · What comes next

The takeover runs over an initial year, with a volume of changes that you direct. If scoping concludes that a rebuild is needed, modernisation is handled as a separate project, priced before it starts.

06 · They chose us
SNCF Réseau
Ministère des Armées
IMA
Michelin
Babcock Wanson
EY
Vinci
EasyKost
Lefèbvre Dalloz
ARS
07 · The questions we are asked
“Nobody can take over this code.”
Scoping will tell you that, or the opposite. We never commit to code we haven’t read, and that is precisely why reading it is the first step.
“Our current provider knows the product.”
The question isn’t knowledge, it’s what’s left of it when the person changes. What we deliver first is the documentation that makes a takeover by a third party possible.
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