Software project rescue companies: 10 firms matched to how your project stalled (2026)

Last updated: Oct. 16, 2026. Researched and written by the Brocoders takeover team. Firm data checked on each firm's own website and Clutch profile between Oct. 1 and Oct. 16, 2026.

Your developers went quiet, the product is about 70% built, and a customer date is still on the calendar. This guide lists 10 software project rescue companies that publish a dedicated offer for that moment. Brocoders wrote it, and we do this work ourselves, so we left Brocoders off the list and put our own record in the author box at the end.

Most rescue lists sort firms by size, rating, or budget. Those numbers tell you who is big, and very little about who fits a half-finished product.

The fit depends on how your project stalled. An agency that vanished at 70%, an AI-built prototype that falls over with real users, and a mobile app pulled from the App Store need different teams. It also depends on two things most rescue firms don't publish: a past rescue with a number attached, and written terms for moving your code and accounts into your name.

So we grouped the firms by situation and checked each one against 5 signals we call the Handover Evidence Test. We looked at 16 firms with a dedicated rescue page, and 10 of them passed.

TL;DR: Of 16 software project rescue firms we checked, 1 publishes a price for its first audit (Fluvius, $1,900 for 3 days), 2 publish a rescue with both a number and a timeline, and 4 have no Clutch profile we could find. Pick a firm by the way your project stalled, then ask it for a priced audit, a dated rescue, and written handover terms before you sign. The firms below are grouped by situation and listed A to Z inside each group, so the order is not a ranking.

Table of Contents
How we chose these 10 firms
What 16 rescue firms publish, and what they leave out
Quick comparison of the 10 firms
If your agency or developer stalled or went quiet
If an AI-built prototype breaks with real users
If a startup's first version failed
If a mobile app is unstable or pulled
If an enterprise or Microsoft-stack system is off course
Six checks from first email to handover
What software project rescue costs
Pick by situation, then make the firm prove the handover
Why you can trust this page
About the author

• How we chose these 10 firms
• What 16 rescue firms publish, and what they leave out
• Quick comparison of the 10 firms
• If your agency or developer stalled or went quiet
• If an AI-built prototype breaks with real users
• If a startup's first version failed
• If a mobile app is unstable or pulled
• If an enterprise or Microsoft-stack system is off course
• Six checks from first email to handover
• What software project rescue costs
• Pick by situation, then make the firm prove the handover
• FAQ
• Why you can trust this page
• About the author

How we chose these 10 firms

We started from 16 firms that run a page dedicated to rescuing or finishing someone else's software. To make the list, a firm needed that dedicated page, company data we could verify (location, founding year, team size), and either a Clutch profile or a named rescue case.

We then read each firm's rescue page and Clutch profile and checked it against the Handover Evidence Test. It takes about 20 minutes per firm, and you can run it yourself:

We kept the scores internal and show which signals each firm meets, so no total turns into a ranking. The "Fit for rescue projects" line under each profile is our editorial reading of the evidence, and the firms did not review it.

Clear Measure, ENO8, Moravio, and Saritasa also appear on MageComp's September 2026 list, which groups rescue firms by buyer type. This guide groups them by situation and adds the evidence check.

What 16 rescue firms publish, and what they leave out

Rescue firms publish their process and leave out the evidence. Of the 16 firms we checked, only Fluvius prices its first audit. Fluvius and HyperProductive are the only 2 that describe a rescue with both a number and a timeline. Liquid Intent, Soundlining, H Product Studio, and Soligent (4 of the 16) have no Clutch profile we could find.

That gap matters more in a rescue than in a new build. A rescue buyer has already paid one team for code that didn't ship, and a price, a dated result, and written ownership terms protect the second payment.

Here is how the 10 listed firms score on each signal:

Quick comparison of the 10 firms

The table sorts the firms by situation, then A to Z. Clutch data as of Oct. 16, 2026.

If your agency or developer stalled or went quiet

Pick from this group when the code exists, the previous team has slowed down or disappeared, and you need someone to read the code and tell you what to keep. All four firms take over mid-build work, and they differ most on budget floor and on how much they put in writing.

Beehive Software (San Jose, California): emergency audits for abandoned builds

Overview: Beehive Software is a US development firm with a dedicated takeover and rescue service that opens every engagement with an "Emergency Code Audit & Assessment". It holds a 5.0 Clutch rating across 12 reviews, and its rescue page names the buyer it is built for, including "founders whose freelancer or agency abandoned the project mid-build."

Core focus:

• Abandoned freelancer and agency builds, over-budget projects, and CTOs who inherit broken code
• An audit, then stabilisation, feature delivery, and a transition to the client's own team
• Stack-agnostic web, mobile, and AI platforms

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Investor-backed products: the rescue page lists "investors rescuing portfolio companies with stalled technical development" as a buyer group. It publishes no rescue case with a client name, date, or result.

Strengths:

• The rescue page lists 4 named buyer situations, so you can check fit before the first call
• Across 12 Clutch reviews, clients most often describe the team as timely and communicative

Weaknesses / considerations:

• Founded in 2021, the youngest firm on this list
• The page claims "dozens of projects" without one described case, and the audit has no published price or duration

Key stats:

• Employees: 50 to 249
• Clutch reviews: 12
• Average rating: 5.0/5.0
• Hourly rate: $50 to $99
• Minimum project: $10,000+
• Founded: 2021
• Headquarters: San Jose, California, US
• Distinction: A rescue page written for the founder whose freelancer disappeared mid-build.

Fit for rescue projects: A founder whose freelancer or agency vanished and who wants a team reading the code this week. Ask for a dated case before you pay for the audit.

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Moravio (Prague, Czechia): European takeovers that continue into development

Overview: Moravio is a Czech development company that runs a software project rescue service and a separate AI rescue page. It holds a 4.9 Clutch rating across 23 reviews. Its rescue process starts with a free consultation, then an analysis that "can take from a few days to a few weeks, depending on the size of your project."

Core focus:

• Projects that stopped, slowed, ran over time or budget, or lack promised features
• Analysis, then continued development by the same team
• Offices in Prague, Ostrava, and Barcelona, for buyers who want a European time zone

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Spanamo (wellness booking): Moravio took over the booking platform, listed in its portfolio as a takeover. The case gives no metric or date.
• Unnamed auction portal: the owner had left its previous supplier. Moravio spent about 2 weeks on analysis, then reworked the schema, fixed security issues, and built a new interface (case).

Strengths:

• Two described takeovers, one with the analysis length stated
• Across 23 Clutch reviews, clients mention on-time delivery and steady communication in Slack and Jira

Weaknesses / considerations:

• Neither takeover case carries a metric or a date
• The website gives two team sizes ("fifty-strong" and "45+")

Key stats:

• Employees: 50 to 249
• Clutch reviews: 23
• Average rating: 4.9/5.0
• Hourly rate: $50 to $99
• Minimum project: $25,000+
• Founded: 2011
• Headquarters: Prague, Czechia
• Distinction: A European team that takes over a stalled build and keeps developing it.

Fit for rescue projects: An EU company that wants a team in a European time zone to take over and keep building. A buyer who needs a fixed audit price before sharing code should start elsewhere.

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Saritasa (Irvine, California): long-term takeovers with a stated budget floor

Overview: Saritasa is a US software company founded in 2005 with the largest review base on this list: a 4.8 Clutch rating across 108 reviews. It starts takeovers "with a free Code Review" and is the only firm here that publishes its floor: "our project takeover clients spend a minimum of $80,000 a year, but often that figure goes much higher."

Core focus:

• Missed deadlines, poor code, budget overruns, and unreliable previous vendors
• Long-term development after the takeover, plus a Vibe To Viable service for apps built with AI coding tools
• .NET, PHP and Laravel, Python, Angular and React, and mobile

Real project examples & client quotes:

• BJ's Restaurants: tip-sharing software, tagged on the site as a code takeover. No outcome numbers are published.
• Electronic Form I-9 compliance software: a second case tagged as a takeover, also without numbers.

Strengths:

• More Clutch reviews (108) than the next 3 firms on this list combined
• A written promise to "pass over the complete source code so that your project is yours"

Weaknesses / considerations:

• "We cannot fix-cost project takeovers," and Saritasa declines projects "limited to only bug fixes"
• Some reviewers flag early estimates that moved during the project

Key stats:

• Employees: 206 team members (company website), 50 to 249 on Clutch
• Clutch reviews: 108
• Average rating: 4.8/5.0
• Hourly rate: $100 to $149
• Minimum project: $50,000+
• Founded: 2005
• Headquarters: Irvine, California, US, with an office in Tampa
• Distinction: The only firm on this list that tells you its takeover budget floor up front.

Fit for rescue projects: A US mid-market company that wants a long-term development partner after the rescue and has at least $80,000 a year for it. A founder with a fixed, small budget will not fit.

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Webisoft (Montreal, Canada): an access audit before any code changes

Overview: Webisoft is a Canadian product development firm with a takeover service built on a "fixed price audit first, then a stabilization estimate." It holds a 4.9 Clutch rating across 23 reviews. The audit "typically takes one to three weeks" and ends in "a written risk report and a costed plan."

Core focus:

• Takeovers where the original team is gone, the vendor underdelivered, or the previous developer left without documentation
• Week one covers "repositories, hosting, DNS, databases, third party accounts", checks which ones you actually control, and rotates exposed credentials
• Python, JavaScript and TypeScript, and PHP, with a retainer after stabilisation

Real project examples & client quotes:

• The takeover page names no client or outcome. Webisoft's reviews cover general development work.

Strengths:

• The clearest access-first process on this list: control of your accounts is checked before code changes
• A fixed-price audit with a stated duration of 1 to 3 weeks

Weaknesses / considerations:

• The audit price is not published
• SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA appear only as footer badges, outside the takeover terms

Key stats:

• Employees: 10 to 49
• Clutch reviews: 23
• Average rating: 4.9/5.0
• Hourly rate: $50 to $99
• Minimum project: $5,000+
• Founded: 2016
• Headquarters: Montreal, Canada, with an office in Miami
• Distinction: A takeover that starts by proving you own your repo, domain, and accounts.

Fit for rescue projects: An owner who isn't sure they control their own domain, repository, or app-store accounts and wants that settled first. Ask for a takeover case before you sign, since the page has none.

If an AI-built prototype breaks with real users

Pick from this group when the first version came out of an AI coding tool (Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, or similar) and stopped holding up once real users arrived. Saritasa, listed above, also runs a service for this case.

Fluvius (Sacramento, California): a priced audit and written ownership terms

Overview: Fluvius is a US product studio that pitches "a stalled or vibe-coded build, made production-grade." It holds a 4.9 Clutch rating across 6 reviews. It is the only firm we checked with a priced first step: a Code & Developer Audit at $1,900 fixed, delivered in 3 days with a written, effort-estimated fix plan.

Core focus:

• Vendors that went quiet after payment, AI prototypes failing with real users, and sole developers who left
• A free 30-minute triage call, the priced audit, then senior-led rescue work
• Node.js and NestJS, React, and AI-generated codebases, with fintech experience

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Unnamed client, 14-year-old Go backend: one senior engineer, working with AI tools, rewrote the backend in Node.js in 6 months, against quotes of about 2 years. The system stayed in service during the rewrite.
• Earn2Trade: Fluvius built a back office that serves 8,000+ monthly active users.

Strengths:

• The clearest handover line we found: "Repos, credentials, cloud accounts and domains secured in your name."
• One of only 2 firms out of 16 that publish a rescue with both a number and a timeline

Weaknesses / considerations:

• Only 6 Clutch reviews, and the strongest rescue case is unnamed
• The firm takes "one senior track at a time," so a start date can slip if that track is busy

Key stats:

• Employees: 50 to 249
• Clutch reviews: 6
• Average rating: 4.9/5.0
• Hourly rate: $50 to $99
• Minimum project: $50,000+
• Founded: 2017
• Headquarters: Sacramento, California, US
• Distinction: The only firm of the 16 that prices its first audit, and the only one of the 10 listed that puts ownership transfer in writing.

Fit for rescue projects: A founder with an AI-built app who wants a priced, 3-day answer before committing a budget. The $50,000 minimum applies to the rescue work after the audit.

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ISHIR (Dallas, Texas): named rescue clients across web and mobile

Overview: ISHIR is a software company founded in 1999 with offices in Dallas and Noida. It holds a 4.9 Clutch rating across 19 reviews. Its rescue service starts with "a full code review and architecture audit" and names startups that begin with "vibe coding" as a rescue case.

Core focus:

• Undefined scope, missing skills, poor quality, budget overruns, and vibe-code debt (missing tests and security gaps)
• Web and mobile rebuilds, including Flutter and React
• Delivery teams in India, Latin America, and Eastern Europe

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Concentra: the company "faced the sudden removal of its mobile app from the App Store," and ISHIR worked a phased plan to get it reinstated.
• Express Chiropractic: ISHIR rebuilt an outdated mobile app in Flutter and ReactJS.
• ezLocator: a named rescue client, quoted below.

"While there were moments when timelines slipped slightly, they always communicated clearly and adapted."

Jon Schultz, CEO, ezLocator

Strengths:

• Names 3 rescue clients, so you have companies to ask about before signing
• Across 19 Clutch reviews, project management and on-time delivery come up most often

Weaknesses / considerations:

• The rescue page gives no numbers, dates, or handover terms
• The audit has no published price

Key stats:

• Employees: 50 to 249
• Clutch reviews: 19
• Average rating: 4.9/5.0
• Hourly rate: $50 to $99
• Minimum project: $10,000+
• Founded: 1999
• Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, US, with an office in Noida, India
• Distinction: Named rescue clients, including an app pulled from the App Store.

Fit for rescue projects: A buyer who wants named rescue references and offshore rates. Get the handover terms in the contract, because the rescue page doesn't state them.

If a startup's first version failed

Pick this when the V1 shipped, users didn't stay, and the team never agreed on what the product was supposed to do. The work here starts with stopping development.

ENO8 (Dallas, Texas): pause, audit, then rebuild

Overview: ENO8 is a Dallas product studio founded in 2016 with a 4.9 Clutch rating across 14 reviews. Its rescue process starts with a chat, then "We begin by pausing the software project," then an audit and reengineering.

Core focus:

• Vendors that aren't delivering, in-house teams without capacity, and a flailing or failed V1
• A deliberate pause, an audit, and a rebuild of release and delivery practice
• Custom software, mobile, and AI products

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Kanarys: the previous partner shipped slow, error-prone manual releases. ENO8 assessed the stack, recovered certificates, keys, passwords, and the codebase from the incumbent, and moved releases to CI/CD on AWS.

"Now, product releases happen on a weekly basis where it used to be monthly or once every other month."

ENO8, Kanarys case study

Strengths:

• A rescue case that shows the access recovery step, the one most buyers underestimate
• Across 14 Clutch reviews, clients describe a team that raises roadblocks early

Weaknesses / considerations:

• A team of 2 to 9 people, and no dates on the Kanarys case
• In 2 reviews, clients mention team turnover slowing progress

Key stats:

• Employees: 2 to 9
• Clutch reviews: 14
• Average rating: 4.9/5.0
• Hourly rate: $100 to $149
• Minimum project: $25,000+
• Founded: 2016
• Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, US
• Distinction: A rescue that starts by stopping the build until the scope is agreed.

Fit for rescue projects: A seed-stage founder whose V1 failed on unclear scope and who wants a reset before more code is written. A buyer who needs a large team on day one should look at Saritasa or Moravio.

If a mobile app is unstable or pulled

Pick this when a consumer app crashes, fails store review, or was pulled, and the previous agency or freelancer is gone. Mobile rescues often depend on store accounts and signing keys, so check who holds them before you call anyone.

Dom & Tom (New York): mobile and web rescues for funded teams

Overview: Dom & Tom is a New York and Chicago product agency founded in 2009, with a 4.8 Clutch rating across 25 reviews. It says "a focused discovery and audit period is usually the fastest useful start" and offers a "structured handoff from prior vendors or internal teams."

Core focus:

• Underperforming, stalled, or unstable apps taken over from another agency or freelancer
• Mobile apps (React Native or native), web, and DevOps
• Discovery and audit before the rebuild

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Port Medical Management, Swimply, and DRI Global: listed on the rescue pages as clients. The pages give no rescue outcomes for them.

Strengths:

• A rescue offer built around mobile, where most of the other firms lead with web
• Across 25 Clutch reviews, clients most often mention quality and on-time delivery

Weaknesses / considerations:

• The highest minimum project on this list ($75,000+)
• No rescue metrics, and repository access appears as a process step with no ownership terms

Key stats:

• Employees: 10 to 49
• Clutch reviews: 25
• Average rating: 4.8/5.0
• Hourly rate: $150 to $199
• Minimum project: $75,000+
• Founded: 2009
• Headquarters: New York, New York, US, with an office in Chicago
• Distinction: The mobile-first rescue option, priced for funded companies.

Fit for rescue projects: A funded company with a consumer app that crashes or was pulled, and a budget above $75,000. A smaller budget points to ISHIR or Webisoft.

If an enterprise or Microsoft-stack system is off course

Pick from this group when the system is live, the business depends on it, and the work is closer to modernizing a live product than finishing a new one. Both are small teams, and both sit at the top of the rate range on this list.

Clear Measure (Austin, Texas): architect-led rescues on .NET and Azure

Overview: Clear Measure is an Austin software architecture firm founded in 2013 with a 4.8 Clutch rating across 2 reviews. It offers a free strategy session with its Chief Software Architect, Jeffrey Palermo, and a "Get Your Score" self-assessment for software leaders.

Core focus:

• Scope creep, runaway timelines and budgets, defect-plagued systems, and outdated technology
• Paid inspections (a 30-point DevOps inspection and a total software inspection) with no published price
• Microsoft .NET and Azure

Real project examples & client quotes:

• Pinpoint: a DevOps engagement that cut deployment time from 300 minutes to 11. Clear Measure does not label it a rescue, and its rescue page names no rescue case.

Strengths:

• A named senior architect leads the first conversation
• A self-assessment you can run before any call

Weaknesses / considerations:

• Only 2 Clutch reviews, and the highest rate band on this list ($200 to $300 an hour)
• No rescue case with numbers

Key stats:

• Employees: 10 to 49
• Clutch reviews: 2
• Average rating: 4.8/5.0
• Hourly rate: $200 to $300
• Minimum project: $10,000+
• Founded: 2013
• Headquarters: Austin, Texas, US
• Distinction: An architect's read of a .NET system before anyone quotes a rebuild.

Fit for rescue projects: An enterprise team with a .NET system behind schedule and an internal owner who wants an architect's opinion first. A non-Microsoft stack is outside its focus.

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HyperProductive (Cleveland Heights, Ohio): small crew, long-running results

Overview: HyperProductive is a small Ohio firm that focuses on software project rescue and application modernization. It has no Clutch reviews yet, and it publishes the two most specific rescue stories we found among the 16 firms. It offers a free project assessment.

Core focus:

• Stalled, troubled, and over-budget projects, including apps left unfinished by another developer
• Small senior crews on long-overdue internal systems
• Java and Spring, .NET, iOS, Azure, and AWS

Real project examples & client quotes:

• American Greetings: a mainframe order system was "three years into a two-year project" with an estimate of "two more years". HyperProductive took it live in 6 months, and the work won the client's Chairman's Award.
• Hinkley: the developer of a distributor iPad app "simply vanished" weeks before launch. HyperProductive shipped the app on time, and the case says it has kept it running for 12 years.

Strengths:

• One of only 2 firms out of 16 with a rescue that carries both a number and a timeline
• A takeover case with 12 years of production behind it

Weaknesses / considerations:

• No Clutch reviews and a team of 2 to 9 people
• The founding year differs between its website (2009) and Clutch (2019)

Key stats:

• Employees: 2 to 9
• Clutch reviews: 0
• Hourly rate: $150 to $199
• Minimum project: $10,000+
• Founded: 2009 (website) or 2019 (Clutch)
• Headquarters: Cleveland Heights, Ohio, US
• Distinction: The most specific published rescue stories among the 16 firms we checked.

Fit for rescue projects: An enterprise with a long-overdue internal system that needs a small senior crew. Ask for references directly, since there are no third-party reviews to read.

One situation no firm above covers: code that came with an acquisition and that your in-house team can't run. None of the 16 rescue pages we checked publishes an offer for standing up acquired software in the buyer's own cloud, so ask for that scope by name.

Six checks from first email to handover

Run these 6 checks in order. Each one protects the next payment, and each one is something a rescue firm can answer in writing.

Stage 4 is where most buyers lose their bargaining position. Of the 10 firms above, only Fluvius puts the transfer of repositories, credentials, cloud accounts, and domains in writing on its rescue page, so ask the other 9 to put it in the contract.

Stage 3 decides whether you rebuild or keep what you have. Ask the audit to answer module by module, and treat a full-rewrite verdict that arrives before anyone has read the code as a sales quote.

What software project rescue costs

A rescue costs two separate things: an audit that tells you what to keep, and the rescue work itself. Firms publish very little about either, so here is everything we found:

• Audit: Fluvius charges $1,900 for a 3-day code audit. Brocoders publishes $5,000 for a 5 to 10 business-day audit (our own price, listed for comparison). The other 9 firms on the list offer a free call or review, or don't state a price.
• Assessment price in AI answers: in our visibility lab review (October 2026), 18 assistant answers to rewrite-or-not and cost questions priced an independent assessment at $20,000 to $75,000, and none of them named a firm.
• Ongoing takeover: Saritasa states its takeover clients spend a minimum of $80,000 a year.
• Finishing a stalled build: Brocoders quotes $80,000 to $300,000+, priced after the audit.
• Minimum projects on this list: from $5,000 (Webisoft) to $75,000 (Dom & Tom), per each firm's Clutch profile.

Get the audit price in writing before you share the code. The audit decides everything that follows, including whether the second team spends its first month repeating the first team's work.

Pick by situation, then make the firm prove the handover

Start with the group that matches how your project stalled: a quiet vendor, an AI-built prototype, a failed V1, a broken mobile app, or a live enterprise system. Inside that group, the firm that shows a dated rescue and puts the handover in writing has already answered the questions the others leave for the sales call.

Every firm on this list will tell you it can rescue your project. The Handover Evidence Test tells you which ones have shown it.

Why you can trust this page

We read every rescue page and Clutch profile between Oct. 1 and Oct. 9, 2026, rechecked the Clutch data and quoted pages on Oct. 16, 2026, and used no other list as a source. We quote firms in their own words. We did not interview the firms or their clients, so case details are as each firm publishes them.

We excluded Gurzu (2 Clutch reviews, no rescue case), Liquid Intent, Soundlining, H Product Studio, and Soligent (no Clutch profile, no named case), and Cognito Works (we couldn't confirm its Clutch profile). We also left out large integrators such as Accenture, EPAM, and Thoughtworks, whose engagements start well above the budget of a stalled 70% build.

Review data, team sizes, hourly rates, and minimum project thresholds change over time. Verify current data directly on each company's Clutch profile and website before shortlisting. We recheck this page every quarter.

About the author

Last updated: Oct. 16, 2026.

Brocoders is a software development company founded in 2014 and based in Tallinn, Estonia, with 87 specialists. Of our delivered client engagements, 23% were takeovers or modernizations of software the client already ran. Brocoders is not ranked in this guide. Here are 4 of our takeovers, with dates:

• CoreHealth (telehealth, UK): the client's developer had moved on and could no longer support the platform, and the old code never came with him. We built version 2.0 from the client's own documents and flows, starting discovery in July 2023, with a working demo 5 weeks into development (Sept. 15, 2023) and the MVP in October 2023. The customer's budget had to be spent within 6 weeks, and one platform now serves retail patients, pharmacies, and secure custodial healthcare.
• HeyPractice (EdTech, Germany): we took over an inherited codebase with enterprise customers already live. A free technical audit in early October 2021 came back before the quote, and we kept the database, models, and migrations, replaced the API, business logic, and frontend, and moved hosting to AWS with CI/CD. It went into production in March 2022, 5 months after the audit.
• Gokada (ride-hailing, Lagos): we took over a working MVP built by another IT company in July 2018, reused its admin panel, and rebuilt the app's design and logic as one cross-platform app. The first release shipped in early 2019, and daily ride requests rose 2.5 times in the first 6 months. The platform handled 1.5M ride requests in total before the engagement ended in February 2020.
• ShineUp (proptech): after an acquisition, we redeployed ShineUp into the buyer's own AWS account at a fixed price in 2 to 3 weeks and walked their team through it. That is the acquired-code case none of the 16 firms above publishes an offer for.

If your situation fits one of these, our project takeover services page lists the audit, handover terms, and prices.