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Legacy Code Triage

Inherited codebase audits — risky dependencies, dead code, and quick-win refactors prioritized by impact.

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Practice
Triage, root-cause, ship the fix.
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Teams shipping bug fixing work
Engagement model
Fixed-price, embedded

What do you get with Legacy Code Triage?

Deliverables

A working production deployment

Shipped to your environment with the same review, CI, and observability standards as your engineering team's own work.

A measurable acceptance bar

Every engagement starts with a written success criterion. Legacy Code Triage ends when that bar is hit — not when the calendar says we're out of time.

Documentation you'll actually use

Architecture notes, runbooks, and onboarding guides land in your repo so the work survives the handoff and doesn't become tribal knowledge.

30 days of follow-up support

After shipping, we stay on Slack / email for 30 days to triage anything that surfaces in production at no extra cost.

How does Ideomatics deliver Legacy Code Triage?

4-step engagement
  1. 01

    Discovery call

    A 45-minute call to understand the system, the goals, and the constraints around legacy code triage.

  2. 02

    Written proposal

    Fixed-price scope and timeline, sent within one working day, locking the cost before any code is written.

  3. 03

    Embedded delivery

    Daily PRs against your repo, weekly demos against your stakeholders, and visible progress against the acceptance bar.

  4. 04

    Handoff & guarantee

    Final demo, handoff doc in your repo, and 30 days of follow-up support included in the engagement price.

Frequently asked questions about Legacy Code Triage

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What does Legacy Code Triage include at Ideomatics?

Inherited codebase audits — risky dependencies, dead code, and quick-win refactors prioritized by impact. Every fix lands with a written postmortem, a regression test, and a monitor so the issue cannot return silently.

How long does a typical Legacy Code Triage engagement take?

Most legacy code triage engagements run a few days to 2 weeks, depending on scope and the state of your existing codebase. You'll receive a fixed-price written proposal within one working day of the first call so the timeline is locked before anyone commits.

Who on the Ideomatics team handles Legacy Code Triage?

A senior practitioner from our Bug Fixing group leads the work, paired with an embedded mid-level engineer. No offshore relay teams, no junior-only execution, and the same two people stay on the engagement from kickoff through handoff.

How does Legacy Code Triage fit into our existing tools and process?

We adapt to your repo layout, CI pipeline, branching convention, and review process — not the other way around. Expect PR-based delivery, your linters and formatters, and integration with whatever issue tracker, deploy tool, and observability stack you already use.

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Ready to ship legacy code triage?

Tell us the problem, the deadline, and the budget. We'll come back with a scoped, fixed-price proposal within one working day.

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