Website redesign services: fix a broken site

Broken, or half-finished. We fix the mess

We rescue the site an AI tool started and finish the job properly.

  1. Auditfirst
  2. Stabilizeweek one
  3. Finishweeks two to four
  4. Hand overin your name

It checks speed, mobile, your tags and markup, the trust signals, and whether ChatGPT is even allowed to read you. Or book a call.

What the audit finds on day one.

Broken

  • Checkoutfixed
  • Formslive
  • SSLfixed

Missing

  • Pageslive
  • Integrationsin hand

Ownership

  • Domainfixed
  • Hostinglive
  • Credentialsin hand

Recovery

  • Redirectsin hand
  • Sitemaplive

Fixed price before anything is touched

Start here Free check: what is broken, and what is salvageable

The fixed scope

What does a website rescue include, week by week, and what does it cost?

AI tools promised a website in an afternoon. Cheap freelancers ghosted mid-project. Either way, you now have a broken or half-finished site — and no one to finish the job. We fix the mess, finish the build, and get you live properly.

  • 01 · Audit Before work starts One-hour call plus a two-day technical audit. You get a written rescue plan with a fixed price.
  • 02 · Stabilize Week one First week: site is loading, secure, and Google can crawl it again.
  • 03 · Finish Weeks two to four Remaining weeks: complete what your previous builder did not, or replace what has to be replaced.
  • 04 · Hand over The last mile Full documentation, ownership of every asset, optional Care Plan for ongoing maintenance.
  • The price Fixed, in writing Fixed price after the audit — you see the number before you commit. Rescues typically run less than a full rebuild.

Fixed scope, fixed price

A fixed-scope rescue plan. You see it before you commit to the build.

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What’s included

Full audit

What is broken, what is salvageable, what needs a rebuild.

Stabilization

Get the site loading, secure, and index-able first.

Finish the build

Missing pages, broken checkout, incomplete integrations — done properly.

Handover

Full documentation, credentials, and an optional Care Plan to keep it running.

  • Security and malware cleanup
  • Broken checkout / lead form fixes
  • SEO recovery (redirects, canonicals, sitemap)
  • Speed and Core Web Vitals pass

1wkto audit and stabilize

4wktypical rescue length

0rebuild-from-scratch — we save what we can

Where the damage shows up

Where does a broken site cost you customers?

The checkout, the contact form, the search results, the login screen. We check all of them, because a half-finished site fails in more than one place at once.

  • The checkout
  • The contact form
  • Google Search
  • The login screen
  • The domain registrar
  • The hosting account
  • SSL
  • The sitemap

Also checked: DNS records, Google Search Console, The CMS admin, Payment gateway, Email deliverability, The old developer’s account, Backups.

What we say before any work starts

“We will not rebuild from scratch as a default. We salvage what is good and only replace what is actually broken.”

DevShutter, first call

Do you always rebuild from scratch?
No — we salvage everything we can. Rebuild only happens when the existing site is fundamentally broken or unsafe.
What if my previous builder still owns things?
Part of the rescue is helping you regain ownership of your domain, hosting, and assets. That is step zero.

The four things we touch

What gets fixed in a rescue — and is it a rebuild from scratch?

Four things, and none of them is a rebuild from scratch.

What is broken

Every error, from a dead checkout to a form that quietly fails to send.

What is salvageable

The parts worth keeping, named plainly so nothing good gets thrown out.

What needs a rebuild

Only the parts that are actually beyond saving, and why.

A written plan

A fixed price and a scope, before anything is touched.

Security scan

Malware, exposed credentials, anything left open by the last build.

Ownership check

Who currently holds the domain, hosting and accounts.

The climb

How long does it take to fix a broken website? Nobody relaunches overnight. Everybody climbs back.

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  • Where it endedLive, secure, and Google crawling it again.
  • What moved itStabilize first, then finish only what was actually incomplete.
  • What we will not sayThat every rescue needs a full rebuild.

The work order

From broken, to stable, to finished

  1. 01

    The audit goes first

    A written rescue plan with a fixed price, before anything gets touched.

    • What is broken, named plainly
    • What is salvageable, kept
    • A fixed price, agreed before work starts
  2. 02

    Stabilize week one

    Get the site loading, secure, and index-able again before anything else is finished.

    • SSL and malware handled first
    • Domain and hosting ownership regained
    • Google let back in to crawl it
  3. 03

    Finish the build weeks two to four

    Missing pages, broken checkout and incomplete integrations, done properly.

    • Placeholder text replaced with real copy
    • Payment tested end to end with a real card
    • Every integration finished, not just started

  4. A finished site nobody owns is the same trap as a broken one. That is why ownership is recovered early, and why the order on this page is not negotiable.

    Then, and only then, the recovery

  5. 04

    SEO recovery that fills the gaps

    Redirects, canonicals and a resubmitted sitemap, so the fix is not undone by a search engine that never found out.

    • Old addresses mapped so nothing 404s
    • The right page told to Google as canonical
    • Rankings watched weekly until they hold
  6. 05

    Speed & Core Web Vitals when it pays

    Fast on a phone, which a half-finished build almost never was.

    • Measured on real phones, not a lab score
    • Fixed only where it moves the number
    • The same plain report as the rest
  7. 06

    Handover the last mile

    Full documentation, every credential, and an optional care plan so this does not happen again.

    • Credentials and ownership documented
    • A walkthrough of what changed and why
    • An optional care plan to keep it running

Site statusLive

Google crawling itYes

What we watchMovementNow
UptimeStable
Checkout completesYes
Pages indexedRecovering
Forms testedAll
Core Web Vitals, one pageFlat

The report

What do you get when the rescue is done? A report you can read in four minutes

Not a forty-tab dashboard nobody opens. Once the rescue is done, in plain words: what was broken, what was fixed, and what is next.

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In writing

Honest by default, out of the box

The rules every rescue gets before we start. They are the same whether it is a broken form or a locked-out domain.

“If ownership of the domain is still with a previous developer, that is step zero, before any code changes.”
The fine print · Part of every rescue plan

Questions

The questions every honest rescue should answer

Do you always rebuild from scratch?
No — we salvage everything we can. Rebuild only happens when the existing site is fundamentally broken or unsafe.
What if my previous builder still owns things?
Part of the rescue is helping you regain ownership of your domain, hosting, and assets. That is step zero.
How much does a rescue cost?
Fixed price after the audit — you see the number before you commit. Rescues typically run less than a full rebuild.

Start here

Get the audit before you spend a dollar

One-hour call plus a technical audit, and a fixed price before anything starts.

It checks speed, mobile, your tags and markup, the trust signals, and whether ChatGPT is even allowed to read you. Or book a call.

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