Can you take over an abandoned Laravel codebase?

Yes. Closed Circuit Consultants takes over abandoned Laravel apps. Hours 0–48: written findings you keep. Days 2–14: triage. Then we document and ship. You keep the repo, servers, and accounts. Las Vegas, remote US.

How is this different from hiring Tighten or a new Laravel developer?

Tighten is a Laravel agency that shines when you want a team to build or migrate into Laravel. A new hire is 3–6 months of recruiting plus benefits, and they still have to learn your repo. We start in the abandoned app you already have. 48-hour findings, then a scoped SOW. No hire, no agency bench.

Which Laravel versions do you take over?

Laravel 8 through 12, PHP 8.1–8.4. Livewire, Vue, and React front ends. We have been on Laravel since 2014. Older 5.x/6.x apps get a written upgrade path in the 48-hour findings, not a surprise rewrite.

Closed Circuit Consultants · Las Vegas, NV · remote US

We take over abandoned Laravel apps.

The developer left. The repo is Laravel. Users are still hitting it. We take the repo, write findings in 48 hours, triage for two weeks, then document and ship. You keep the code and the accounts.

vs a hire or an agency

Process

48h findings → 2-week triage → document + ship

Call (30 min, free). Stack, access, what is on fire. No retainer to start.
Hours 0–48. Written findings you keep: data-loss, authz, leftover debug routes, PHP/Laravel versions.
Days 2–14. Triage. The holes that lose data or leak accounts go first.
Document + ship. Scoped SOW. Docs in the repo. Features only after the app cannot quietly die.

Starting band after the findings: fixed-price SOW, or a retainer from $2,500/month. Pricing.

Stack we take over

Laravel 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. PHP 8.1–8.4. Livewire, Vue, React, Inertia. MySQL and PostgreSQL. Forge, Vapor, Laravel Cloud, raw AWS. Laravel since 2014.

Us vs Tighten vs a new hire

	Closed Circuit Consultants	Tighten (typical Laravel agency)	A new Laravel hire
Starts when	48-hour findings after a 30-min call	After scoping a team onto a build or migration	3–6 months of recruiting
Best when	The Laravel app already exists and is abandoned	You want a Laravel team to build or migrate in	You need a full-time owner for years
You keep	Repo, servers, accounts. Findings even if you walk.	Whatever the SOW delivers	An employee. The bus factor is one person again.