ODOO PROJECT RESCUE
When your Odoo project has gone sideways.
Stalled implementation. Partner walked away. Migration broken halfway. Budget burned with no go-live. We pick up failed Odoo projects, stabilize what works, and ship what was promised, with a fixed-price scope inside 7 days.
Roughly 30–70% of ERP implementations miss budget, timeline, or scope, sources: our own audits across 100+ deployments + industry research. When this happens to you, the most expensive damage is not the money already lost: it is the next decision. Starting from zero with a new partner costs you another 12 months. Pushing on with the current team replays the same patterns. We offer a third path: audit-first, fast stabilization, delivery of the remaining scope.
Not sure your project is there yet? Grade it first: the project rescue risk grader asks nine questions about slipped dates, billing, code quality and governance, and returns a risk score. Free, no email, two minutes.
Our approach: no team writes new code in week one. We read the git history, the custom-module catalog, the database state, the configuration drift first. The report ships on day 5. You then get three priced options: triage, stabilize, full rescue. You pick.
Three rescue packages
Fixed-price after a 5-day audit. No time-and-materials billing.
Triage
Audit + action plan in 5 days
From $4,500
- Full audit (code, data, configuration)
- Prioritized report: critical → important → cosmetic
- Three rescue options with priced scope
- Honest recommendation: continue or not
Stabilize
4–8 weeks to make the system usable
$15,000 – $45,000
- Triage package included
- Critical-bug fixes identified in audit
- Rewrite custom modules that are not upgrade-safe
- Migrate partially-loaded data
- Catch-up user training
- 60-day post-stabilization warranty
Full rescue
12–16 weeks to go-live
$50,000 – $150,000
- Triage + Stabilize included
- Delivery of the remaining promised scope
- Rewire broken integrations
- 30-day hyper-care after go-live
- Ongoing support plan
- Full ownership transfer, you walk away with the code
Patterns we see.
If any of these sound familiar, the free 30-min call gives you a rescue cost range.
The partner walked away
Updates stop. Tickets ignored. No one understands the custom code anymore. We pick up cleanly, inherit the repo, and restart in 2 weeks. If your partner refuses to hand over the code: in most cases you own the repository and that is not negotiable legally. Where you do not, we work with your lawyers to recover what is yours. No client has stayed blocked.
Migration stalled halfway
QuickBooks/SAP/NetSuite migration loaded 60% of data then crashed. Users working on two systems. We finish the load and decommission the old.
Non-upgrade-safe customisations
Python code that overrides core modules directly. Every Odoo upgrade breaks. We refactor to clean inheritance, Odoo 19 → 20 becomes possible again.
Budget burned, no go-live
Time-and-materials with no cap. 6 months in, nothing in production. We propose fixed price for the remaining scope, or chunk it into a deliverable MVP.
Performance degraded
Databases with 5M+ records, queries taking 30 seconds. Query-planner audit, add missing indexes, refactor ORM searches, 10× gains are routine.
User adoption at 30%
The system is live but nobody uses it. We interview the users who resist, identify the friction, and fix it in 2 weeks.
The 5-day rescue audit
Before any code, we understand. Here is what we ship in a week.
Day 1
Read the history
Git log, custom modules, releases, prior tickets. Nobody writes code.
Day 2
Database audit
Data state, integrity, duplicates, partial migrations, performance.
Day 3
Configuration audit
Permissions, workflows, automations, active integrations.
Day 4
User interviews
5 users (power, occasional, sceptical). Frictions surfaced.
Day 5
Report + 3 options
Triage, Stabilize, Full Rescue, fixed-price priced. You choose.
Your Odoo project deserves a second chance.
Free 30-minute call. If the project cannot be saved, we say so.
A real rescue
Implementation rescue for a stalled Odoo project at a 45-person consultancy
An 8-month stalled Odoo implementation from a prior partner needed rescuing. The project was re-scoped, the broken accounting setup was fixed, and a stable go-live followed just 6 weeks later.
- Stable go-live in 6 weeks after rescue scope
- Recovered 11 months of accounting backlogs
- Customer retention test: 18 months post-go-live and counting
Project rescue FAQ
01
How much does the rescue audit cost?
The 30-min intro call is free. The Triage package (full 5-day audit + prioritized report + three priced options) starts at $4,500. If you do not engage us for the follow-on work, you walk away with the report, it is yours.
02
Do you rescue all Odoo versions?
Yes, OpenERP 7 to Odoo 19. For versions older than Odoo 14 we generally recommend a managed migration to a supported version during the rescue, otherwise security patches are no longer available.
03
What if my current partner refuses to transfer the code?
Rare but it happens. If you own the repo (most common case), it is non-negotiable legally. Otherwise, we work with your lawyers to recover what is yours. No client has stayed blocked.
04
Can you guarantee a go-live?
After the Triage audit, yes, for the Full Rescue package, we give a fixed-price go-live date. Overrun is on us. Before the audit, no, we do not know yet what is salvageable.
05
What if the audit concludes the project is not salvageable?
It happens in roughly 10% of cases. We say so clearly, explain why (usually: architecture incompatible with your business target, or technical debt > cost of a reimplementation). You walk away with the report. No "but let us try anyway".