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Teams·Team Types·SWAT / Rescue

Hire SWAT / Rescue Teams.

The team you call when it’s already on fire.

Two firms failed before us on the ONE rebuild. That engagement shape now has a name. A SWAT squad stabilizes first, diagnoses honestly, then rebuilds only what the evidence says must be rebuilt.

72 hours
To stand up
4
Roles in the team
$68K / month
Starting engagement

Composition

Who's in the team.

A small, senior team with a single delivery lead, every role earning its seat.

Incident-hardened lead

1

Staff+ engineer

1

Senior engineers

2–3

SRE / platform

1

What they ship

Outcomes, not deliverables.

  • Week one: bleeding stopped: pages triaged, worst failure modes fenced
  • A written, evidence-based diagnosis (not a rewrite pitch)
  • Stabilization of the current system while any rebuild runs in parallel
  • Runbooks and on-call hygiene your team keeps afterwards
  • A decision memo: fix, strangle, or rebuild: with costs attached

FAQ

Honest answers.

How fast can you actually start?
For genuine incidents, a lead is reading your codebase within 72 hours. The full squad follows inside a week.
Will you just tell us to rewrite everything?
No. That’s usually the previous vendor’s pitch. Most rescues end in a strangler pattern, not a big bang. The ONE case study is the reference.
Can you work with the team that built the current system?
Preferably. Blame is useless; context is priceless. We’ve never met a system with zero good decisions in it.

A SWAT team, in 72 hours.

Tell us the problem. We'll compose a team by Friday.

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