Legacy system operations

We keep your
legacy running.

Your old system still runs the business — but no one wants to own it. We take it over, keep it stable, and run it for a fraction of your current maintenance cost.

Hand over your system See how it works
50–70%lower maintenance cost
< 24 hincident response, SLA-backed
0knowledge lost in handover
4–6 wkstypical full takeover

What we do

Take over. Maintain. Slash the cost.

One team, contracted like infrastructure — not headcount.

Take Over

Zero-drama handover of systems your team built years ago and no one wants to touch. We map code, data, integrations and tribal knowledge before anyone leaves.

Maintain

SLA-backed operations: monitoring, incident response, patches, regression protection and vendor coordination. Your system stays boring — on purpose.

Reduce Cost

We rationalize licenses, retire dead components, right-size infrastructure and skip unnecessary rewrites — cutting maintenance spend, not capabilities.

De-risk & Document

Every system we take over gets an audit, a risk register and living documentation — so you're never hostage to one engineer again. Including us.

How it works

From handover to steady state in weeks

  1. 01

    Audit

    A fixed-fee, 2-week audit of your legacy estate: architecture, dependencies, risks, and the true cost of keeping it alive. You keep the report either way.

  2. 02

    Takeover

    We shadow your team, capture runbooks and tribal knowledge, then flip to 24/7 operations with agreed SLAs — with zero downtime for the business.

  3. 03

    Run & reduce

    Steady-state maintenance at a flat monthly rate. Every quarter we remove cost: dead code, idle licenses, oversized infrastructure.

The economics

Much lower cost of maintenance

A legacy system doesn't need a product team. It needs a small, disciplined operations crew — which is exactly what we are.

In-house legacy maintenance

  • Full-time engineers on old tech
  • Knowledge walks out the door
  • Escalations land on your team
  • Tooling, on-call and hiring overhead

With Forward Deploy

  • Flat monthly fee, fraction of FTE cost
  • Documented, transferable operations
  • SLA-backed incident response
  • Continuous cost-down, every quarter

FAQ

Common questions

What kinds of systems do you take over?

Internal business systems, integrations, reporting pipelines and aging web applications — typically in stable but "orphaned" states: legacy stacks, departed vendors, missing documentation.

What if we eventually want to rebuild or retire the system?

Then maintenance is the bridge, not the destination. We keep it running safely while you decide, and hand back a documented, low-risk system whenever you're ready.

How do you reduce maintenance cost?

Focused senior crews instead of big teams, rationalized licensing and infrastructure, retiring dead code paths, and saying "no" to changes that don't pay for themselves.

What does a takeover cost?

Audits are fixed-fee. Ongoing operations are a flat monthly rate sized to the system — usually well below what a single in-house engineer costs. Contact us for an estimate.

Stop babysitting your legacy system.

Tell us what it is, what it runs on, and what hurts. We'll come back within two business days with a takeover plan and a number.

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