digitalux

Make the inherited codebase shippable again.

Audit, stabilize, document, and rebuild stalled products. We take the codebase you inherited and make it shippable again — without a ‘rewrite from scratch’ invoice.

Start with an audit
See rescue cases
Engagement
Audit · Stabilize · Modernize
Team
Senior architect-led
Stack
Whatever you have, plus
Typical run
4–24 weeks
From
$3,500 (audit)
Who this is for

Founders and CTOs holding fragile, inherited code.

If the last person who fully understood the system left six months ago — you’re in the right place.

Founder post-CTO exit

Your CTO left. Production is still up but nobody on the team knows why. You need someone senior to take stock and stabilize before anything else.

CTO with a legacy monolith

The codebase is eight years old, the tests don’t run, deploys are scary. You need to keep shipping while we modernize underneath.

PE-acquired SaaS

You bought the business, the platform came with it, and the due diligence didn’t quite cover the tech debt. We do the part after diligence.

What we ship

Stabilization, then modernization. In that order.

Every rescue starts with an honest audit. We refuse to rebuild what we haven’t first read.

01

Architecture audit + risk register

Every system mapped, every risk scored. You get the document. Whether we do the work or you do, it stays useful.

02

Stabilization sprint

Tests, CI, monitoring, deploy pipeline. The non-negotiable basics that turn ‘scary’ into ‘routine’.

03

Refactor + migration roadmap

Sequenced, ROI-estimated, broken into shippable increments. No big-bang rewrites.

04

Deploy pipeline rebuild

From whatever you have today — to a one-click, zero-downtime deploy your team will actually trust.

05

Test coverage backfill

The critical paths first, then the long tail. Coverage as a leading indicator, not a vanity metric.

06

Documentation pass

Architecture, runbooks, onboarding docs. The thing that means the next CTO exit doesn’t break you.

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How we engage

Three engagement shapes.
One operating model.

Senior-led in every shape. Pick the one that fits the problem.

A · Discovery

Code audit

1 week · from $3,500
  • Full architecture review
  • Risk register w/ severity
  • 30-day stabilization plan
  • Honest rescue vs. rebuild call
Start an audit
B · Build

Stabilization sprint

4–8 wk · from $18,000
  • CI/CD rebuild
  • Monitoring + alerting
  • Test coverage backfill
  • Deploy pipeline + runbooks
Scope a sprint
C · Own

Modernization retainer

Ongoing · from $5,500/mo
  • Continuous refactor
  • Migration milestones
  • Team mentoring
  • We hold the pager
Talk retainer
Sample case

Stalled SaaS to weekly releases in 6 weeks.

An inherited Node/Express + React codebase with no tests, broken CI, and 14 months of drift. Now shipping weekly with a documented handoff.

Startup SaaS · 6 weeks

Stabilized a stalled SaaS in 6 weeks — releases went from monthly to weekly.

Inherited codebase had no tests, broken CI, and 14 months of accumulated drift. We rebuilt the deploy pipeline, added smoke tests, and shipped weekly from week three. No rewrite. No drama.

Outcome
+4× release rate
Length
6 weeks
Before / after deploy pipeline
Common questions

Things founders usually ask.

Almost certainly not. We rescue more codebases than we rewrite. The math has to be overwhelmingly in favor of a rewrite — and we’ll show you the math before recommending it.

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Transmission open

Let’s turn the scattered into a system that holds.

Book a strategy call

30 minutes · no pitch · no obligation