Rescue or take over
When a software project stalls, we step in and get it delivered
Stalled? We take it from here
Putti rescues stalled and failing software projects for New Zealand businesses: apps abandoned by an offshore team, builds left behind when a developer disappeared, and vibe-coded apps that broke under real users. We audit what exists, stabilise it and finish it from Auckland. More than 20 rescues since 2010, all delivered.
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Yes, and most are worth saving. Putti takes over offshore-built apps for New Zealand businesses by first recovering the source code, hosting and app store accounts. An audit then shows what's sound and what isn't, and one senior team in Auckland stabilises and completes the build.
Act this week. Lock down every account in your name, from hosting and the domain to the app store and payments, and get a copy of the code and database. Then send a dated handover request that quotes your contract. With the code in hand, Putti's senior engineers can audit it and finish the job.
A rescue usually costs a fraction of the original build, because the parts that already work stay. The exception is a project whose foundations are wrong, where rebuilding those parts is cheaper than patching them, and a short assessment tells you which you've got before you spend more. Most Putti rescues in New Zealand take 4 to 12 weeks.
No restart from scratch unless we truly have to. We assess quickly, stabilise what's there, and get things moving again.
We audit the code, architecture and delivery, and tell you plainly what's salvageable and what isn't.
We stop the bleeding: fix the critical issues, secure the system and restore a working baseline.
A realistic path to done, taken the rest of the way by our senior team, with the transparency the last one lacked.
We listen first, then get to work. Get in touch when:
20+ stalled or failing projects turned around, a 100% success rate.
A record across 100+ projects with zero failures.
A senior team and honest communication, in it with you all the way to done.
An honest assessment, a stabilised system and a realistic path to done, taken across the line by people who finish what they start.
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The clearest sign is a date that keeps moving while nobody can tell you why. Others are invoices growing faster than features, bugs coming back after they were fixed, a team that goes quiet before demos, and code no one else has seen. Two of those together is reason enough for an independent look.
Yes. Apps generated with Cursor, Bolt, Lovable or similar tools usually look finished but fail under real users: no tests, secrets in the code, and features that only work on the happy path. We audit what the tool produced, keep what holds up and engineer the rest to production standard.
Most rescues Putti runs take 4 to 12 weeks from first access to a delivered product. Getting the keys and reading the code takes the first two weeks. Fixing what's critical follows, and the rest of the timeline depends on how much of the promised scope was really built before we arrived.
