Legacy Application Rescue Case Studies | BitBrawn

Legacy code held them hostage. We set them free.

Disappeared developers. Undocumented code. Deployments that everyone dreaded. See how we’ve turned these companies around.

192% more claim submissions

RIFT's customers were abandoning claims before finishing them.

Their tax refund platform hadn’t kept up. Outdated Rails, fragile codebase, customer data duplicated. We stabilised the foundations, rebuilt the self-service experience, and unified their data into a single API.

The result? Claim submissions up 192%, unique sign-ins up 84%, and data accuracy on essential claim information submitted by their customers of above 99%.

Understand the issues we’re trying to solve and develop practical modernisations
Bradley Post
Bradley Post Managing Director at RIFT
MyRIFT dashboard after legacy system modernisation by BitBrawn
MyRIFT claim submission flow after modernisation
MyRIFT self-service experience rebuilt by BitBrawn

£100M marketplace modernised

At Laced, two internal rewrites had stalled and the European launch deadline was closing in.

We built their original sneaker marketplace in 2018. Five years and £100M+ in sales later, they needed European expansion but the team was burning months on two rewrites that wouldn’t land in time. We halted both and redirected the effort to what actually mattered.

Laced launched across Europe on deadline with multi-currency pricing, full-site translation and cross-border shipping. Adding a new market is now a configuration exercise, not an engineering project.

Significantly reduced both our time and costs across multiple intricate projects
Chris Gibbons
Chris Gibbons CEO at Laced
Laced marketplace homepage after legacy application modernisation
Laced product listing page with localisation support
Laced sneaker marketplace global expansion by BitBrawn

Urgent rescue, ongoing partnership

We received an urgent email about a booking platform nobody could maintain.

Allocate’s lead developer vanished. No documentation, no handover. Just dozens of Node.js and React services that nobody understood, where fixing one bug broke something else.

We mapped the system, fixed the critical bugs hitting bookings and payments, and got deploys working safely again. That emergency rescue turned into an ongoing partnership; we’re still there.

Without assistance they methodically unravelled older web applications.
Charles Holdsworth
Charles Holdsworth CEO at Allocate
Allocate booking platform after legacy application rescue
Allocate booking calendar after legacy software modernisation
Allocate service management dashboard rebuilt by BitBrawn

A quick-turnaround legacy modernisation

Purplebricks had a legacy onboarding flow that was costing agents hours every day.

Their agents chased the same property details on every listing, resulting in wasted time, and customer frustration at having to provide details over the phone.

We built a structured onboarding flow inside that collected informaiton about their customers properties, modernising legacy TypeScript/React onboarding flow in 3 months, cutting repetitive queries and improving valuation accuracy.

Experience, pragmatism and humility that helped them immediately gain the trust and respect of our team
Anna Divers
Anna Divers Product Director at Purplebricks
Purplebricks property onboarding flow after legacy modernisation by BitBrawn
Purplebricks property details collection interface
Purplebricks valuation flow modernised by BitBrawn

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