For organizations
The systems a business runs on, and what keeps it running without you.
Small and mid-sized organizations often depend on one or two people who know where everything lives — which credentials matter, which vendor to call, which server is quietly load-bearing. We help make that knowledge survive a sudden loss.
Before death — preventative
Comprehensive discovery, while someone can still explain it
Most businesses have never fully catalogued what they depend on. We run a structured discovery process, then help you decide what needs to change so the organization isn't one person away from real trouble.
Digital asset discovery
Domains, hosting, code repositories, SaaS subscriptions, credentials, and the vendor contracts that keep them all paid for.
Billing & vendor relationships
Who's paying for what, on which card, renewing when — and what breaks first if that stops being tended to.
Bespoke vs. SaaS architecture
A candid assessment of whether custom-built systems can be handed off at all, or whether they need to move to something more sustainable.
After death — forensic & transition
Keeping the business running, or winding it down deliberately
When the person who held it all together is suddenly gone, the priority is stability first, decisions second. We help stabilize operations, then work with survivors, partners, or new leadership on what comes next.
What we typically do
- Secure and inventory access — logins, domain registrars, hosting accounts, code repositories, payment processors
- Identify what's actively required to keep the business operating, and what can safely wait
- Migrate fragile, undocumented, or single-person-dependent systems toward something a team can actually support
- Support an orderly transfer or wind-down, on the survivors' or successors' timeline
What we don't do
- Decide who owns the business or how it should be distributed — that runs through the estate and its attorneys
- Make personnel or strategic decisions on behalf of the family or successors
- Assume every system should simply be replaced — sometimes the right answer is to document and keep it
Case study
Prairie.net: discovery, succession, and a transition to something sustainable
Prairie.net is one of the examples discussed in our talk on digital succession — a case where a legacy, largely bespoke system needed to be understood from the outside in, documented, and carried forward into an architecture a wider team could actually maintain. The details of discovery, succession planning, and the eventual transition are walked through in the talk itself.
Depth of involvement
From an outside assessment to a full operational hand-off
Assessment
A structured discovery and a written report on your organization's digital dependencies and single points of failure.
Guided transition
We work alongside your team through migration, documentation, and vendor changes, keeping the plan on track.
Full hand-off
We take direct responsibility for stabilizing and transitioning the systems, reporting to whoever now leads the organization.