One month of engineering on the product you already run.
Nothing rebuilt from zero.
system5.dev01 / 10
Record 01 ·where this starts
A customer already pays for it. That is the hard part done.
Then the speed stops arriving. The same tools that got you here
multiply whatever is already in the code — the good parts and the bad — and
every new thing costs more than the last.
What you have
A working product, a paying customer, a team of up to five
What changed
Shipping got slower, not faster
system5.dev02 / 10
Record 02 ·the part nobody says out loud
Everyone was handed an AI. Most use a tenth of it.
Buying a subscription for every developer does not close that gap.
The competitors who use it fully are pulling ahead while the licence sits there.
system5.dev03 / 10
Record 03 ·one founder, two written quotes
Two engineering shops read his code. Both said start again from zero.
Quoted price
$150,000+
Quoted time
4–6 months
The plan
Start again from zero
Meanwhile
Nothing new to ship until the rebuild landed
One client's numbers. n = 1. Not an industry average and not our estimate
of what a rewrite costs — it is what two shops put in front of one founder, in writing.04 / 10
Record 04 ·what he did instead
What he was quoted
$150,000+
4–6 months
Start again from zero
Nothing to ship meanwhile
What he did
One month
Kept the code he had
Added what it was missing
Kept shipping the whole time
His customer never saw an interruption. Nothing was rewritten.
One client's numbers. n = 1.05 / 10
Record 05 ·what actually happens
Before anything · $0
Teardown
We read the running code and write down what breaks first.
Week one
Write the ending
The last day is agreed before the first invoice.
Weeks two and three
Tests and gates
Every change ships behind tests and a review gate.
Week four
Run it, hand it over
Real traffic, then we leave on the agreed date.
You keep releasing on your own rhythm the whole month.06 / 10
Record 06 ·what is left behind
We leave on the agreed date. What we built stays.
01The tests
02The review gates
03The delivery setup
04The written notes
05The AI agents we ran the month with
06Configured for your codebase, in your repository
No retainer. Nothing renews by itself.
system5.dev07 / 10
Record 07 ·who does the work
Two people. Both named.
Roman Voronin
Full time on your product
Owns the month end to end, and is the person you talk to every day.
Ivan Padabed
Architecture
Works the month beside him and owns the shape of what gets built.
Nothing is handed off to a third-party firm.08 / 10
Record 08 ·how it starts
$0
The teardown is a document, not a call.
We read your running code and send back a written assessment: what breaks
first, at what load, what that costs, and what one month would change.
Yours to keep
And to hand to anyone — including the engineers you hire instead of us
If a month is not enough
The findings say so instead of us taking the money
The price of the month is named in that document, before any invoice.09 / 10
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