Talent & Teams·Team Types·SWAT
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.
What this team owns
Outcomes, not activity.
- 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
The shape
Who is in the team.
Incident-hardened lead1
Staff+ engineer1
Senior engineers2–3
SRE / platform1
STANDS UP IN 72 hours · FROM $68K / month
FAQ
Before you ask.
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.
Tell us what has to move.
A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. We will map the capacity and ownership the work actually needs.