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App Rescue · Legacy PHP & Laravel

The app your business runs on is living on borrowed time.

End-of-life PHP and Laravel versions don’t just get old — they fail security reviews, stall deals, and lock you out of your own roadmap. We take over the codebase and bring it back to supported, compliant, and maintainable.

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Fixed-price assessment · legacy PHP & Laravel · Python & TypeScript too

Who this is for

Small and midsize companies that depend on a custom app but don’t have the in-house muscle for a major modernization — often software an outside or offshore team built and you’d rather keep than throw away.

  • Your app is stuck on an end-of-life PHP or framework version, and a major upgrade is beyond what your current team can safely take on.
  • You want to keep your existing developers for day-to-day work, but need a senior team to lead the modernization.
  • A customer, auditor, or partner is asking compliance questions your current setup can’t answer.
  • Every big change feels risky, because nobody is confident the app will still work afterward.

How a rescue works

A real sequence, not an open-ended engagement. You always know the next step.

  1. 01

    Rescue Assessment

    Every rescue starts with a fixed-price assessment: a clear-eyed review of your app’s security, end-of-life exposure, compliance gaps, and code health — with a straight recommendation and a fixed quote for the work. No blind commitments on either side.

  2. 02

    We lead the modernization — you keep your team

    We get into the actual code, put it under version control and CI, and lead the heavy upgrade work. Your existing developers know the app and the business, so we work alongside them and lean on them for testing and domain knowledge. No one gets fired to make room for us.

  3. 03

    Off end-of-life, into compliance

    We upgrade the runtime, framework, and dependencies off the unsupported versions that fail security review — a PHP 7.2 / Laravel 8 app brought all the way to PHP 8.4 / Laravel 12, for example — then wire in the logging and audit trails that satisfy SOC 2 and enterprise security questionnaires.

  4. 04

    Handed back, under control

    We refactor the worst of the spaghetti, add tests where they count, document what matters, and set up pipelines so future changes ship safely instead of by prayer. You get an app you can build on again — with us on call when you need us.

Questions

What if our app is too far gone to save?
That’s exactly what the Rescue Assessment tells you. If a rescue isn’t worth it, we’ll say so — and if a rebuild makes more sense, we can do that too. You get an honest recommendation either way, not a sales pitch for the most expensive option.
We only have PHP — is that a problem?
Not at all — legacy PHP and Laravel are our sweet spot. Offshore and outside teams built enormous amounts of it, and old PHP versions are exactly the end-of-life, out-of-security-support problem we’re here to fix. We also handle Python and TypeScript codebases.
Do we have to replace our current developers?
No. Sometimes we fully take over; more often we lead the modernization, set the standards, and give your existing team the guardrails to keep working safely. We’ll recommend the right arrangement for your situation.
How is a small team fast enough — and affordable?
AI-accelerated delivery. It lets a small, senior US-based team read, upgrade, and ship on unfamiliar codebases far faster than a traditional shop — jumping an app from PHP 7.2 / Laravel 8 to PHP 8.4 / Laravel 12 in a fraction of the time a by-hand rewrite would take. That’s how we work at a price a midsize company can actually stomach.

The clock is already running

Find out exactly where your app stands.

Start with a fixed-price Rescue Assessment — a clear readout of your security, end-of-life exposure, and compliance gaps, plus a fixed quote to get it back under control.

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