The old system works. That is exactly why nobody dares touch it.
An application written years ago still runs the business, on a server nobody wants to reboot, with no one left who understands it. Rewriting it in one go is how companies lose a year. Wrapping it in an API and replacing it piece by piece is how they do not.
APIs, Microservices & Modernization
REST or GraphQL APIs with documentation your next developer can read.
Strangler-pattern modernization: new pieces beside the old one, cutover feature by feature.
Microservices only where a boundary genuinely earns it; a well-built monolith otherwise.
Authentication, rate limits, versioning and audit logs built in.
Third-party API integrations with retries, idempotency and alerts.
Database migration from Access, FoxPro, ancient MySQL or a spreadsheet to Postgres.
Platforms we use here
AWS
Postgres
GitHub
Docker / Kubernetes
Piece by piece
no big-bang rewrite, no lost year
What you get
API with docs and tests
Migration plan with rollback
Monitoring and alerts
Source in your GitHub org
From $6,500
A single API or service. Modernization programs from $15,000, phased.
Every price sits on the pricing page. Real numbers, no gate.
Discovery week
Five days inside your business before we write a line of code or put a number on a proposal. We shadow the actual work, not the org chart, because what owners say is broken and what is actually broken rarely match.
Day 1
The map
Read-only access to every system, and a list of who logs into what. By the end of the day the current process is drawn on one page, including the parts that live in someone’s head.
Day 2
Shadow the work
A morning beside the person who really runs it. We watch the spreadsheet, the phone, the retyping, and count the hand-offs where a job goes quiet.
Day 3
The paper trail
The last twenty quotes and invoices, a day of real calls and emails, the support inbox. The paperwork shows what happens; the interviews show what people think happens.
Day 4
Try the shelf first
An afternoon configuring the off-the-shelf tool that gets closest. If it does 80% of the job, that goes in the plan instead of a build, even though the build is the bigger invoice.
Day 5
The one-page plan
What to do first, what can wait, a fixed price per phase and a date for the first working slice. We read it together in thirty minutes.
What we look at
Every system you run, and who has the login
The spreadsheet everyone actually works from
Your last twenty quotes and your last twenty invoices
A day of real calls, emails and texts
Every hand-off where somebody retypes something
What an existing tool could do instead of a build
What you get
A one-page plan with a number on it
The sequence: what we build first, and why that piece
A fixed price per phase, with a place to stop between phases
The date the first working slice goes live
What we would configure instead of build
What you own at the end of it, and where it lives
The plan is yours to keep, whether we build it or someone else does.
Small, well-defined jobs do not need a week. A single API, a data migration or a one-screen internal tool gets the first call and a written quote, and we skip the shadowing.
Almost every plan changes after this week.