What a standard build would have missed.
Asked for an affiliate platform connected to the CRM.
The vendor's own setup documentation pointed at a screen that no longer existed; a build following it would have stalled indefinitely.
Four real defects caught before launch, zero contaminated records reached the CRM.
Asked for a payments integration review.
1,851 files read, read-only, across both branches.
A webhook endpoint that had never received an event, a commission fallback that could never fire, and no refund path in the codebase at all.
Asked what previous contractors had left behind.
Every workflow swept for outbound calls came back clean. The data was leaving through a separate automation platform into a personal spreadsheet set to anyone-with-the-link.
Two of four highest-privilege accounts belonged to nobody at the company.
Brought a process map.
The same follow-up pattern had been drawn five separate times; it was built once.
43 of 43 elements covered by 29 small workflows.
Asked to populate four Salesforce fields from a decade of closed transactions.
The older archive is scanned images, which no parser reaches.
Delivered the parse, and the honest blocker.
Started at $2,500 a month for an email test.
Four expansions later, the work spans demand, quote-to-cash, billing ops and account targeting.
Runs at $14,000 a month, with the original fee never renegotiated.
We publish what we found and what it cost. The rubric, the sequencing and the build specifications stay ours.
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