Before anyone should touch a struggling site, someone has to find out what it actually is. The rescue assessment is that finding-out, at a flat published price, delivered as a written report that’s yours regardless of what happens next.

What gets examined

Ownership and access — the four keys: where the domain, hosting, code, and data actually live, and what’s recoverable. Platform and version — what it runs, how far behind support it is, what the road to safety looks like. Security posture — exposed admin paths, un-patched knowns, suspicious accounts, whether a compromise already happened quietly. Backups — whether any exist, and the only question that matters: has one ever been restored? The functional walk — forms, checkout, email delivery: the things that fail silently and cost real money.

What the report contains

Plain-language findings in priority order: what’s urgent (days), what’s important (weeks), what can wait. A costed path — stabilize-only, stabilize-then-migrate, or the honest “this site needs less than you feared.” And the state of your ownership, documented, which alone is worth the fee to most organizations.

What it deliberately isn’t

A sales document. The report prices the work but stands alone — take it to any competent developer and they can execute it. That’s by design: the assessment’s job is truth, and the fee credits toward the rescue or your first month of maintenance if you do continue here. Either way, you stop guessing.