Our Services
We specialize in taking broken, stalled, and over-engineered systems and turning them into stable, scalable products. Every engagement is fixed-price and begins with a forensic diagnosis, never with assumptions.
Every engagement is a discrete, fixed-price phase with defined inputs, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
Whether your project was abandoned by a previous team, is drowning in technical debt, or simply needs to be built correctly from the start, we have a structured service pathway designed for your exact situation. Each service is a discrete, fixed-price engagement with defined inputs, deliverables, and acceptance criteria. No hourly billing surprises, no scope ambiguity, no lock-in beyond the current phase.
Phase 1: Diagnostic Codebase Audit
Before a single line of code is changed, we need to understand the full picture. This is a fixed-price, paid engagement starting at $1,500. You are paying for an objective engineering blueprint, not a sales pitch. Our audit team conducts a forensic review of your codebase, infrastructure, and security posture using automated static analysis, manual architectural review, and live performance profiling under realistic load conditions. The output is a written Technical Health Report: a boardroom-ready document that tells you exactly what is broken, why it's broken, the blast radius of each issue, and what a realistic remediation will cost. This report is yours outright, regardless of whether you continue with BKX Labs.
This engagement converts your largest technical liability into a quantified risk register, allowing your CFO and board to evaluate remediation cost versus inaction with precision rather than conjecture.
What We Examine
- Code quality, structure & architectural pattern compliance
- Security vulnerabilities & exposed attack surfaces (OWASP Top 10)
- Database schema design, indexing strategy & query performance
- Deployment pipelines, CI/CD configuration & server hardening
- Third-party dependency risks, version drift & EOL exposure
- Authentication & authorization logic correctness
- Automated test coverage depth and reliability
Audit Tooling
What You Receive
- Full written Technical Health Report (PDF + source)
- Severity-ranked issue list (Critical / High / Medium / Low)
- Per-issue remediation effort and cost estimate
- Architecture diagram: current state vs. recommended state
- Executive summary suitable for board or investor review
Phase 2: Triage & Stabilization
We stop the bleeding. Informed by the diagnostic audit's findings, our engineers systematically patch critical production failures, seal active security vulnerabilities, and establish the foundational engineering practices, such as reproducible CI/CD pipelines, production observability, and automated deployment rollbacks, that your system should have had from the first sprint. All triage work is executed on a staging branch and requires your explicit sign-off before promotion to the live environment. Your system must be more stable at the end of every week than it was at the beginning.
For every week a production system operates in an unstable state, the cost of remediation compounds through customer churn, support overhead, and the opportunity cost of features that cannot be shipped.
What We Fix
- Server crashes, memory leaks & unhandled fatal exceptions
- Security holes: SQL injection, XSS, auth bypasses, SSRF
- Broken or absent CI/CD deployment pipelines
- Data integrity issues & corrupted application state
- N+1 query patterns causing database timeout cascades
- Missing rate limiting, CSRF protection & input sanitization
- Environment configuration leakage & credential exposure
Technology Stack
Our Approach
Stabilization is performed live; we do not take your existing system offline at any point. All changes go through a staging environment for validation and are covered by automated integration tests before production deployment. You explicitly approve every critical change before it ships. A production observability stack (Sentry, uptime monitoring, Laravel Horizon) is established on day one.
Phase 3: Modernization Retainer
Stabilization buys you time. Modernization buys you the future. Our retainer model provides dedicated engineering bandwidth with a fixed team size, fixed sprint scope, and fixed monthly cost to systematically remove technical debt, refactor critical subsystems, and build the new features your business requires, all without pausing operations. We operate in 2-week sprints with a committed deliverable scope per sprint, a working demo at sprint end, and full transparency into the backlog. You can cancel with 30 days' notice. No lock-in clauses, no exit penalties.
A senior full-stack engineer with relevant rescue experience costs $150,000 to $220,000 annually in the US market. Our retainer delivers a team of three to five specialists at a fraction of that cost, with no onboarding curve or equity dilution.
What We Deliver
- Systematic legacy-to-modern stack migration (Laravel 12, React 19)
- TypeScript 5 strict mode adoption across frontend codebases
- PestPHP 3 test suite establishment prior to high-risk refactors
- New feature development on clean, domain-isolated architecture
- Database restructuring, migration scripting & performance tuning
- Mobile app development (Flutter / React Native)
- API redesign, versioning & third-party integration rewrites
Retainer Stack
Our Approach
Retainers operate in 2-week sprints with a fixed deliverable scope agreed collaboratively before each sprint begins. You receive a written sprint plan, a mid-sprint status update, and a working demo at sprint end. The backlog is managed in a shared project management workspace with full visibility into every task, its status, and the engineer responsible.
Greenfield Development
Not everything needs rescuing. If you're starting from scratch, we build it correctly the first time, with the infrastructure governance, security controls, automated testing discipline, and architectural decision records that prevent the exact problems we spend so much time fixing for other clients. All greenfield projects begin with a documented Architecture Decision Record and a written system design specification before a line of code is written. Fixed-price, fixed-timeline. Zero scope-creep clauses.
The cost of building software correctly on the first attempt is approximately one-third the cost of rescuing software that was built incorrectly. Every anti-pattern we've seen becomes a guardrail we enforce from your project's first commit.
What We Build
- SaaS products & multi-tenant web applications
- Cross-platform mobile apps (iOS & Android via Flutter)
- Internal workflow automation & admin dashboards
- Customer-facing portals & self-service platforms
- MVP products for investor validation with production-grade architecture
- Compliance-ready applications for regulated industries
- AI-integrated products with EU AI Act conformity documentation
Technology Stack
Our Approach
All greenfield projects begin with a documented Architecture Decision Record reviewed and approved by your team before development begins. We establish automated CI/CD, test-driven development practices, and production observability on day one. Deliverables are defined in contract. Fixed price, fixed timeline. Change requests follow a formal written process with clear cost and timeline implications.
Ongoing Engineering Support
For product companies with live applications that need consistent, reliable engineering bandwidth without the cost or overhead of full-time hiring. We integrate with your existing processes, attend your standups, work inside your issue tracker, and deliver predictably, sprint after sprint. A dedicated Lead Engineer and Project Manager own your engagement end-to-end. You get the reliability of an internal team with the specialist depth of an external one.
Product companies that outsource ongoing engineering to a dedicated, accountable partner consistently report higher sprint velocity, lower production incident rates, and faster time-to-market than equivalent internal teams.
What's Included
- Dedicated engineering hours per month (defined in contract)
- Bug triage, root-cause analysis & production fixes
- Security patches & dependency version management
- Feature enhancements & product iteration sprints
- Proactive performance optimization & capacity planning
- Weekly written health reports & sprint retrospectives
- Business-day response for Priority 1 production incidents
Support Models
Our Approach
A dedicated Lead Engineer and PM own your engagement with no rotation. We operate inside your chosen project management tooling (Linear, Jira, Notion, GitHub Issues) and communication channels. Weekly async written health reports cover what shipped, what is in progress, what is blocked, and any proactive recommendations. We do not wait for you to notice a problem; we report emerging risks before they become production incidents.
The Questions Every Enterprise Buyer Asks
High-stakes technical decisions require complete information. These are the questions that matter most to CFOs, CTOs, and procurement teams. We answer them without deflection.
A BKX Labs Diagnostic Codebase Audit, the mandatory first step for all rescue engagements, is scoped as a fixed-price deliverable typically ranging from $3,500 to $8,000 depending on the size and complexity of the system under review. The audit produces a written Technical Health Report and a severity-ranked remediation roadmap with per-item cost estimates. Triage and Stabilization engagements, scoped from the audit findings, typically range from $8,000 to $35,000. Long-term Modernization Retainers are structured as monthly fixed-fee arrangements scaled to team size and sprint scope. We do not bill hourly. Every phase of work is quoted on a fixed-price basis so your finance and legal teams have a defined commitment before a single line of code is written.
Our project takeover protocol follows a strict zero-disruption sequence. We begin with read-only access to your repository, database schema, and production environment logs, and require no write access until the diagnostic phase is fully complete. During diagnosis, we use PHPStan Level 9, Rector analysis, OWASP ZAP security scanning, and Laravel Telescope profiling to build a complete picture of the system's current state. We establish a reproducible local development environment and a staging branch before any intervention. The first production change we make is always the deployment pipeline itself, establishing GitHub Actions CI/CD, automated test runs, and rollback capabilities. This ensures that every subsequent change we make to production is reversible if needed. Typically, initial production stabilization occurs within the first two weeks of engagement.
Yes, unconditionally. Every BKX Labs engagement is governed by a mutual NDA executed before any code or system access is provided. Our standard contract includes full Intellectual Property assignment clauses confirming that all code, documentation, architecture diagrams, and deliverables produced during the engagement are owned exclusively by the client upon final payment. We do not retain residual licensing rights, we do not use your codebase for training data or portfolio examples without explicit written consent, and we do not introduce proprietary dependencies that would create vendor lock-in with BKX Labs specifically. Our legal templates are reviewed by enterprise procurement teams regularly and we can address custom contractual requirements with appropriate notice.
This is the most important question we answer during the Diagnostic phase. If the forensic audit reveals that the cost of remediation exceeds the cost of a properly architected replacement, and this does occur in approximately 15% of audits, we will tell you directly in the written report. The Diagnostic Audit is designed specifically to produce this verdict before you commit to a larger remediation budget. In these cases, we provide a detailed greenfield architecture specification as part of the report, outlining what a correctly built replacement would require in terms of timeline, team composition, and technology choices. You can take that specification to any engineering team, including ours. The audit fee is not contingent on a recommendation to continue with BKX Labs.
Not sure which service fits your situation? Every engagement starts with a complimentary 15-minute Rescue Strategy Call. We assess your business situation, the state of your current team, and recommend the correct technical starting point with full transparency. No high-pressure sales process, just a candid, expert assessment of whether your project can be rescued, and at what cost.
Let's Fix What's Broken.
Stop guessing why your application is failing. Book a Strategy Call today to assess whether your codebase qualifies for our Diagnostic Audit, and walk away with a written answer to the question "is this fixable, and what will it cost?"