Refire
AI project rescue

Devin stalled. We finish.

Refire takes over AI builds that other vendors couldn't ship. Forensic audit in seven days. Production-ready in eight weeks. We don't sell you the dream that broke you the first time — we sell you the ending.

01 — The hole

Eighteen months. Three vendors. Nothing in production.

Every Fortune 1000 has at least one AI initiative that became a graveyard. Cognition started the rebuild and pivoted. Cursor onboarded the team and the team left. The internal task force became a slack channel. Now there's a sunk cost, a Board question, and a CTO who needs to land the plane.

The work is not lost. The architecture isn't broken — it's incomplete. The hard part was choosing the right surface to rebuild. The next eight weeks are a different job: finishing what was started, on time, on the original brief, and without the politics that froze it the first time.

02 — How rescue works

Diagnose. Stabilize. Land.

01

Forensic

Seven days. Two senior engineers, one engagement lead. Code review, prompt review, agent-trace review, infra audit, vendor-contract audit. You receive a written diagnostic: what was right, what was wrong, what is recoverable, what gets cut.

02

Stabilize

Two weeks. We freeze the codebase, restore CI, replace failing model calls with deterministic fallbacks, wire observability, and ship a working slice to staging. Your team can ship features again before the rebuild even starts.

03

Land

Six weeks. We finish the original brief — not a re-scoped fantasy — against the KPI bar your CFO already signed off on. Production handover includes runbooks, owner-training, and a 90-day warranty.

03 — Pricing

Three meters. Zero surprises.

Forensic
Flat $35,000 — diagnostic delivered in seven days, refunded if we decline the rescue
Stabilize
Flat $120,000 — two-week sprint, named deliverables, money back on miss
Land
Fixed-bid against the original brief — quoted after forensics, capped, with a 90-day warranty
Equity
Optional 5-10% discount in exchange for case-study rights once you're live

If the diagnostic concludes the project cannot be rescued, we say so in writing, refund the forensic fee, and recommend a successor.

04 — Who it's for

The pattern we recognize.

Sunk cost
$500K+ already spent on an AI build that hasn't shipped
Vendor history
At least one previous vendor walked, ghosted, or got dropped
Internal politics
A CTO and a CFO who agree the project must land — and a Board waiting for the answer
Time to land
8-12 weeks to production, not another discovery sprint
05 — Honest questions

What people ask when they call.

Will you trash the previous vendor in front of our team?+

No. Half the projects we rescue had competent engineers and a bad scope. We name the technical failure mode, not the people. That's part of the contract.

What if the diagnostic concludes our project can't be saved?+

We tell you in writing, refund the forensic fee in full, and recommend either a successor firm or a clean-slate rebuild. Walking away with a refund is a real outcome we ship every quarter.

Will you sign an NDA before the forensic?+

Always. We sign yours or ours, whichever is faster. Most of our work is under NDA until clients choose to publish a case study.

Do you use AI agents to rescue AI projects?+

Yes, but the senior engineers are humans whose names are on the engagement letter. We don't subcontract the rescue itself to an unsupervised agent — that's how you got here.

Can we keep our existing team on the project?+

Strongly preferred. Most rescues fail when the rescue firm displaces the team and inherits the same context-loss problem. Your engineers stay; we layer on a senior pair and an engagement lead.

How do we know you won't end up in the graveyard too?+

The Land phase is fixed-bid against a written KPI bar with a 90-day warranty. If we miss it, you pay nothing for that phase. No other rescue firm in the market writes that contract.

Eighteen months in.
Eight weeks to live.

Forensic in seven days. Refunded if we decline the rescue. We sign your NDA before the first call.

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