// pillar 10 of 10
When a rewrite is not an option.
We step into inherited, stalled or overrunning projects, stabilise what is in production and hand back control — without starting from scratch.
// what it is
What it is.
// context
The problems we usually find.
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Nobody can get the project running
There is no documentation and no reproducible environment. Every attempt ends in a different error, and nobody knows which version was the good one.
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The vendor left halfway
The contract ended, the team dispersed and the code was left without context — with access, credentials and domains still to be gathered.
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Every fix breaks something else
Without tests, any change is a gamble. The team stops touching what works, even when it needs changing.
// scope
What we deliver.
// proof
Projects in this area.
Cases and post-mortems from our work. The post-mortems include what went wrong, by editorial choice.
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case study
Bookings Simplified
RW Interactive created a booking system that simply works anywhere. It’s flexible, scalable, and easy to use.
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case study
From Portugal to the World: Travel with Meaning
The client reached us with the idea to create a travel platform that would unite traveling, tourism with social impact, serving as a bridge between voyagers and NGOS.
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case study
We Turned Complex Insurance Rules into a Fully Automated Comparison System
A fully automated system that could search, compare, and recommend the best insurance deals for each client, using robots that perform real-time web scraping on the websites of Portugal’s leading insurers.
// frequently asked
About Project Rescue.
Do you take on projects built by another team?
That is the usual starting point for this service. We do not need to know who built it — we need the code, the access, and to know what has to keep working during the intervention.
How long until there is an answer?
The audit comes first and is short by design: the point is to tell you what is there and what we recommend before you commit budget to the recovery. The timeline depends on the state of the project and is put in writing.
And if the conclusion is that it is not worth recovering?
We say so. Part of the report is stating what we recommend not recovering and why — including the cases where rebuilding costs less than persisting. The decision is yours, with the numbers in front of you.
// next step
Shall we talk about your case?
Thirty minutes on project rescue: you describe the problem and we tell you the path we recommend — including when that path is not us.
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Diagnosis
30 min. We identify the right pillar.
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Priorities
Explicit trade-offs · realistic phasing.
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Proposal
Scope, timeline, team and investment in writing.