Your outsourced build is months late. We find out why — and get it shipping again.
Sachin Garg sets the recovery plan and stays accountable for it. A Rawzor delivery manager runs it day to day. You keep your team and your code — we make them deliver.
A small, honest first step: a clear picture of what's actually wrong and what it takes to fix it, before you commit to anything bigger.
Does this sound familiar?
We're months behind and burning cash, and nobody can tell me why.
Every status call sounds fine. Every deadline slips anyway.
I don't want to fire the team and start over — I want them to work.
An agency would just rebuild it their way and lock us in.
I need someone senior on this now — and someone to actually run it day to day.
If you nodded at any of these: it almost never means your team is bad. It usually means nobody senior is steering, and the incentives around scope and payment are working against you. Both are fixable.
I've been building software for 27+ years, and it's still just as fun as building sand castles on the beach. But the work clients actually thank us for is quieter: turning chaos into clarity when a build everyone depends on has gone sideways. Most "failed" teams we've walked into weren't failing because the people were bad — nobody senior was steering, and nobody's payment depended on shipping. We fix both, and then we leave.
Is this right for you?
A turnaround is usually the right call when
- An outsourced, agency, or contractor build is visibly off track — late, over budget, or quietly stalled.
- You already have a team and want it to work, not to be replaced.
- There's real value in the existing code and the existing people — it just isn't shipping.
- You're willing to share real access — code, boards, contracts — so the audit can tell you the truth.
Probably not a fit when
- You want to rent developers by the hour. That's the one thing we don't do — we fix the engine and hand it back.
- There's no team in place and none planned — the Founder Rescue track on sachingarg.com is the better starting point.
What the firm does
One recovery plan, senior-owned. Day-to-day management that makes it real.
CTO-level recovery plan
Set and owned by Sachin: what's actually broken — code, process, or vendor incentives — and what to fix first.
Shipping in weeks, not quarters
Day-to-day delivery management
A Rawzor delivery manager installs standups that surface the truth, a GitHub-Issues workflow, and CI/CD.
Honest status you can trust
Vendor scope renegotiated, not detonated
We've sat on your side of the table against agencies — most contracts can be reshaped around verified milestones.
Money moves when verified work does
Vetted specialists, only where there's a gap
Your payroll, your team. We find and vet; you own.
The hand-back
A stabilized team, a predictable delivery cadence, and no dependency on us.
Sachin Garg — who leads every Rawzor engagement — sets the recovery plan and stays accountable for it. A Rawzor delivery manager runs it day to day: standups, CI/CD, milestone-tied delivery, honest status you can trust. Where there's a genuine gap, we add vetted specialists — on your payroll, as your people. We fix the engine and hand it back — we don't rent you developers.
Outcomes, not promises
Stalled 9 months → shipped in 2
A self-hosted AI workstream at a US telecom company had been stuck for nine months. The recovery plan plus the right specialist hires shipped it in two.
13 people → 4, at ~2× delivery
A 13-person, 3-country team rebuilt into a lean 4-person remote team — while roughly doubling throughput — by consolidating five codebases into one.
~30% budget overrun prevented
On a multi-country, 6-team virtual-events build, milestone-tied payment governance and scope translation between founders and vendors kept an estimated ~30% cost escalation from ever happening.
All clients anonymized; details shared in conversation where appropriate.
A small, honest first step: a clear picture of what's actually wrong and what it takes to fix it, before you commit to anything bigger.
Book a Rescue Audit →How we work — fix the engine, hand it back
Four phases. The last one is us leaving.
- 1
Discovery & Assessment
The Rescue Audit, weeks 1–2
Code, team, vendor contracts, and delivery history reviewed — you get a prioritized, plain-English fix plan. If the honest answer is "this isn't salvageable as-is," you'll hear that too.
- 2
Quick Wins & Foundation
Month 1
Standups, a GitHub-Issues workflow, CI/CD, and milestone-tied payments go in. Visible momentum returns.
- 3
Scale & Optimize
Months 2–6
Execute the roadmap, right-size the team, renegotiate vendor scope, stabilize cost and cadence.
- 4
Transition & Hand-off
Built in from day one
Knowledge moves to your people, permanent hires go in where gaps were real, and we step back to light oversight — or out entirely.
The whole model in one line: we fix the engine and hand it back — we don't rent you developers.
We bill only for the exact time we work — never a flat monthly block of hours.
Book a short call. We'll talk through where the build is stuck and whether the Rescue Audit is the right first step — no pitch, no pressure.
Book a Rescue Audit →Start with the audit. On purpose.
Outsourcing Rescue Audit
$3.5–6K fixed
A fixed-scope review of the code, team, vendor, and contract, ending in a prioritized fix plan you own outright — useful even if you never hire us again.
Book itDelivery Turnaround
$10–18K/mo · time-boxed
A managed turnaround under Sachin's oversight — and designed to end. The hand-off is part of the plan from day one.
Every engagement starts with the audit. If the fix plan is something your team can run on its own, that's a perfectly good outcome.
Fair questions
Will you replace our developers?
No — we lead and level up the team you have, and you own the payroll; we don't rent you developers, and we don't replace yours either. Vetted specialists join only where there's a real gap — and even then, they're yours, not ours.
Do we have to fire our agency?
Usually not. Most agency problems are scope, incentive, and oversight problems. We renegotiate the contract around verified milestones and put senior eyes on the work. If the relationship truly can't be saved, the audit will say so plainly.
Will you just rebuild it your way?
No. Rebuilding from scratch is what we're the alternative to. We work with your code and your team unless the audit shows that's genuinely impossible.
How do we know this won't become a forever-engagement?
The engagement is time-boxed and the hand-off is a named phase with deliverables. We make ourselves unnecessary on purpose.
How do you bill?
Only for the exact time we work — never a flat monthly block of hours.
Find out what's actually wrong — and what it takes to fix it
Book a short call. We'll talk through where the build is stuck and whether the Rescue Audit is the right first step — no pitch, no pressure.
Email works best right now — write a couple of lines about where things stand and you’ll get a real reply from a real person, usually within a day.