Book a Health CheckWe rescue business-critical PHP applications after the original developer is gone — before something breaks that you can't fix.
You don't need a rebuild. You need someone who can safely take over what you already have.
Every engagement starts with the Health Check — a fixed-price look at exactly where you stand. What happens next is up to you.
Full pricing breakdownA full assessment of your application: code condition, security exposure, PHP and framework version risk, hosting and backup situation, bus-factor risk — plus a full database assessment covering performance, indexing, backup integrity, version risk, and data safety.
We fix what the Health Check found — and your app keeps running the whole time. No downtime, no disruption to the business.
Your app gets a team again. Maintenance, small features, and gradual strangler-pattern modernization — no big-bang rewrites, ever.
A professional-services firm ran their entire operation on a custom CakePHP application built more than a decade ago. The original developer was unavailable, and the hosting contract was ending. We audited the system, migrated it to modern managed hosting, upgraded the platform, and added backups and a staging environment — without a minute of downtime. Today the app is maintained, documented, and boring, in the best possible way.
Years of PHP and CakePHP work, across every version still running in the wild. We read old code for a living — and we've never met an app too messy to take over.
MySQL and Postgres: performance, indexing, backup integrity, safe migrations. Your data usually matters more than your code — we treat it that way.
Heavily customized WordPress and WooCommerce — the ones with custom plugins no other shop wants to open. If it runs PHP and runs your business, it's in scope.
Skyhawk Labs is a senior team of PHP engineers. No account managers, no junior team behind the curtain, and the same engineer stays with your project from start to finish. You'll always be one call away from an engineer who actually knows your code.
When you're ready for something modern, we design and ship it — React Router 7, TanStack Start, and React Native, on MySQL or Postgres.
Skyhawk Labs builds TalonHR, an HR suite for growing companies. It covers goals, development plans, 360 surveys, and now an AI corrective-action assistant that helps supervisors write fair, policy-based documents — with HR approving each one before it's issued.
Our legacy PHP rescue and maintenance work pays for that product development. The same two principals who keep business-critical apps running build TalonHR with the same care.
Almost never. Rewrites lose years and six figures, and most legacy apps don't need one. We stabilize what you have and modernize it incrementally — piece by piece, while it keeps running.
We've seen worse — truly. Code that's quietly run a business for a decade deserves respect, not judgment. We don't critique, we triage.
That's fine. The Legacy Health Check report is yours to keep, and you can take it to any developer you like. No strings attached.
PHP in all its versions, CakePHP and other PHP frameworks, MySQL and Postgres, heavily customized WordPress and WooCommerce — and the hosting environments they live on.
Before it becomes an emergency. Book a Legacy Health Check, or tell us about your app and we'll reply within one business day.