Every day your app is broken costs you money. Get unstuck fast.
Crashes in production, an App Store rejection you can't solve, a contractor who walked, a vibe-coded build that can't scale. A senior team takes over where the last one stalled. Mandatory paid Technical Audit first, flat-fee rescue scoped from the findings. No guesses. No stretched engagements.
Audit-first · Flat-fee · Senior-led · Quoted from findings
Rescue outcome
0.7★ → 4.4★ over 18 months
5× customer growth (100 → 500+) after we took over a failing React Native therapy app weeks before the funding customer would have walked. Cold start cut from 3 seconds to under 0.5. Biweekly crash triage still running on the team that took over. This is what a rescue can look like when the build has senior hands on it.
Read the full case →If any of these sound familiar, you need a rescue
These are the situations we take over routinely.
React Native app built with React JS patterns
Your contractors treated it like a web app. Nothing feels right on mobile: navigation, lists, images, forms. The architecture fights the platform.
App Store or Play Store rejections you can't resolve
Privacy manifests, permissions, guideline violations, metadata drift. You've resubmitted three times and the review team keeps saying no.
Crashes on real devices
Works on your phone. Crashes on older devices, different OS versions, or specific screen sizes. Crash-free rate under 95%. Ratings trending down.
Vibe-coded build that can't scale
The first version shipped with heavy AI assistance. Now it's in production and nobody on the team fully understands what's actually in the codebase.
Contractor vanished or team dissolved
The previous developer stopped responding. You have a repo, maybe docs, maybe not. You need someone to take ownership and get the release pipeline moving again.
Xamarin, Cordova, or end-of-life stack
Your app is on a stack that's deprecated or about to be. Maintenance costs are climbing, new hires refuse to touch it, App Store is pushing you off older SDKs.
Cold start is embarrassing
App takes 3+ seconds to reach the first screen. Users churn before they see your product. Something in the startup path is doing far too much work.
Wearable companion that never syncs reliably
watchOS or Wear OS app shipped without the paired-phone handshake working. HealthKit or Health Connect integration throwing permission errors in production.
How a rescue actually runs
Four stages. Clear, concrete steps. Every step has a deliverable you can point to.
Paid Technical Audit
Mandatory first step. Read-only repo access. Standalone product. You walk away with a written report whether or not you move forward with a rescue.
Every rescue starts with a Technical Audit: read-only repo access, real-device testing, and a severity-ranked findings report. This is non-negotiable: rescue quotes without an audit are guesses, and guesses cost you money. The audit is a standalone product; you get a written report and a live walkthrough no matter what engagement comes next.
Fix plan
We turn the audit's prioritized findings into a flat-fee rescue scope. You see the plan before any rescue work starts.
Once the audit is delivered, we translate findings into a flat-fee scope: what gets fixed, in what order, what a done-state looks like, and the specific dollar number. You always know the ceiling before we start. If the work is larger than a Rescue can cover (an architecture rebuild, an indefinite stabilization), we tell you and re-scope as a Build or a Partner, not a stretched Rescue.
Executed fixes
Hands-on takeover. Read/write repo access, daily builds, weekly sync. We ship in the order the audit prioritized.
Stop the bleeding first. Critical crash fixes, release-blocker store rejections, regression-risk work on the paths that are hurting users. Daily builds to your team, weekly sync with your stakeholders, and we ship fixes in the order the audit ranked them. No feature work sneaking in through the side door.
Handoff + stability window
Handoff docs to your team (or a new contractor), plus a 30-day stability window. Then you pick your next path.
Your team, or a new contractor, takes the wheel with a handoff package built to be read, not filed. Operational runbooks (the day-to-day how-tos), architectural decision records, and an onboarding doc for the next engineer. A 30-day stability window follows handoff: we respond to anything the fixes surfaced in production. After that you pick: maintain in-house, go a different direction, or graduate to a Partner retainer for ongoing ownership.
Outcomes from a recent rescue
Per-engagement numbers from a React Native therapy-app rescue, not a company-wide average.
10×
Fewer crashes per top offender
3s → <0.5s
Cold-start load time
0.7★ → 4.4★
App Store rating over 18 months
How much does a Rescue cost?
Audit-first, quoted fast. Flat-fee scope from the audit's findings. No estimates, no stretched engagements.
Rescue
Starting at $8,000 · quoted after audit
Flat-fee rescue scoped from the audit's findings. Deposit + milestones. Scope is locked. If the audit surfaces deeper work, we rescope as Build or Partner, never a stretched Rescue.
Scope is locked after the audit. If the findings point to an architecture rebuild or indefinite stabilization, we rescope as a Build or a Partner, never a stretched Rescue.