What if the project is truly beyond saving?

We tell you, early and plainly, before your money goes into it. Sometimes the honest answer is a rebuild that reuses your data and design, and we quote that instead.

The last developer left no documentation. Is that a problem?

It is normal. We read code for a living, so we reconstruct the map from the code itself, then write the documentation that should have existed.

How does pricing work when you cannot see the mess yet?

You name a number, we spend a first pass diagnosing, and then we tell you honestly what your number gets. If the mess is bigger than the number, you decide before we go deeper.

Service 078 of 100

Hire someone to revive your dead project

The Build Studio at CEOism revives dead projects: we diagnose the codebase everyone abandoned, untangle it, and ship it, at a price you name. Most dead projects are not dead, they are stuck on one wrong assumption, one dependency nobody dared touch, or one developer who left with the map in their head. We read the whole thing first, tell you honestly whether it is worth reviving or worth rebuilding, and then do whichever you choose. You say the number that feels fair for getting it breathing again, and we tell you what that number covers. The studio has shipped 47 live apps, and more than one of them passed through a stuck phase first. Bring the repo, the story, and your price.

The 60-second version

Every dead project has one wrong assumption holding it under.

We build it for you: the codebase everyone abandoned, diagnosed, untangled, and shipped.

Tell us what it is worth to you. ceoism.com/studio.

What you receive

An honest diagnosis: what killed it and whether revival beats rebuild
The codebase untangled, documented, and running again
The project deployed live on your domain
A written map of the system so it cannot die of forgetting again
Source code and keys, fully yours

How it works

1
Tell us what you need
One email. Describe the thing in your own words, plain language is perfect, and say the number that feels fair to you.
2
We build, you watch it become real
We reply honestly with what your number gets, then we build. You see the live thing take shape, not a slide about it.
3
You name the price
The price you set is the price. When it ships, it is live on a real domain and it is yours: code, keys, everything.

Honest questions

What if the project is truly beyond saving?: We tell you, early and plainly, before your money goes into it. Sometimes the honest answer is a rebuild that reuses your data and design, and we quote that instead.
The last developer left no documentation. Is that a problem?: It is normal. We read code for a living, so we reconstruct the map from the code itself, then write the documentation that should have existed.
How does pricing work when you cannot see the mess yet?: You name a number, we spend a first pass diagnosing, and then we tell you honestly what your number gets. If the mess is bigger than the number, you decide before we go deeper.

Name your price on this.

Tell us what you need and the number that feels fair. We answer honestly with what that number gets.

Name your price nameyourprice.ceoism.com

Not looking to hire anyone? If you have the knack but never had the means, CEOism will hand you a company instead.

Service 078 · three takes

The films we shoot for this one

These are the scripts we actually film, published openly. Plain text is spoken out loud. Anything in the marked panels is for the camera or the screen behind us and is never read aloud. Three takes of the same service, so we can pick the one that fits where the film is going. The first is open below. Open the other two to read them.

Take one · the empathy cutFilm 078 · 25 to 40 seconds

The folder you cannot delete

Opens inside the worry this service answers, and takes its time. Made for someone who already has this problem in mind, so it fits this page and it fits an audience that already knows us.

Direction · do not readOpen on camera. Quiet from the first word.

The folder is still on your laptop. You have moved it to two different machines and never opened it. Whoever built it is long gone.

Maybe it really is finished. We will not pretend otherwise. But nobody has actually looked at it.

Your dead project, revived. We read it properly and tell you the truth about what it needs before you decide anything.

Send us the link to it. Nothing formal.

Take two · the direct cutFilm 078 · 15 to 25 seconds

It runs now

Opens on a claim or a visible result, with the offer inside the first ten seconds. Built to be shot with a screen recording playing behind you. Made for the feed and for paid placement, where nobody was looking for us.

Read this script

Screen · do not readScreen: an old repository opening, the last commit three years ago.

Somebody abandoned this three years ago. It runs now.

Your dead project, revived. We diagnose it honestly first, and sometimes the honest answer is that rebuilding beats reviving. You get told either way.

Screen · do not readScreen: cut to the same project deployed live on a domain.

You name the price on this. Send us the repository.

Take three · the standing offerFilm 078 · 15 to 30 seconds

Somebody will look at it

Names the service in the first breath instead of hiding it behind a hook, then offers to build it. It puts the barriers on the floor: you name the price, and not knowing how any of it works is our job rather than yours. It also makes the promise most people never get, that we stay with the thing until it is real. Made for someone who has been carrying this idea around for a long time and needs to hear that somebody will actually take it on.

Read this script

Direction · do not readOpen on camera. Steady.

Your dead project, revived. The folder you have carried between two laptops.

We would read it properly and tell you the truth, including when the truth is that rebuilding beats reviving.

Asking costs nothing. Send the link and we will look.

If it can run again, we stay with it until it runs.

No rush on your side. We will be here.

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