Modernisation & rescue
Unstick a legacy or half-modernised system without a freeze: bounded extraction, strangler coexistence, and debt triage matched to business risk.
Founder-led. Fixed scope. Ownership left with your team.
The Problem
Big-bang rewrites stall. Lift-and-shift freezes hide the same design. Teams need a path that keeps revenue online while the architecture improves under real traffic.
Who This Is For
- Product and engineering leaders stuck between a brittle core and a rewrite nobody finishes.
- Teams whose "modernisation" programme has no safe cutover or coexistence plan.
- Organisations that need to extract value from a system they cannot fully stop.
What We Deliver
Practical rescue steps in the codebase, not a multi-year programme slide deck.
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Bounded extraction
Pull the highest-value slice first so progress is visible and reversible.
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Stabilise-in-place
Stop the bleeding on critical paths before larger structural change.
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Strangler and coexistence
Old and new run side by side until cutover criteria are real.
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Debt triage
What to pay down, wrap, or leave alone, ranked by business risk.
How We Work
Three stages. You keep the system when we leave.
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1
Read the system
Map critical flows, ownership, and freeze points.
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2
Stabilise then extract
Secure the path, then move one bounded slice.
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Coexist and cut over
Exit criteria your team can run without us.
What You Leave With
- A live coexistence path instead of a freeze-or-rewrite false choice.
- Clear debt priorities tied to risk, not a pure technology wishlist.
- Ownership of the next extraction steps inside your team.
Discuss your modernisation
Outline the system, what is frozen, and what must keep running. We reply with a technical read. Free, no obligation.
Or email info@mayordomo.co.uk with a short outline.