The full answer
Takeovers usually happen because a previous team has moved on, deadlines keep slipping, or quality problems are piling up. The first step is gaining access to the code repositories, cloud accounts, app store accounts, design files and any documentation that exists.
Creuto's engineers then review code quality, architecture, security, test coverage, dependencies and deployment. The audit sets out what is sound, what needs fixing and what the risks are, along with a recommendation to continue, refactor or rebuild specific parts.
Stabilisation normally comes first: setting up proper environments, a CI/CD pipeline, monitoring and tests around critical journeys. Once the product is stable, new feature work resumes in two-week sprints.
If you are unsure whether you hold all the access and ownership you need from a previous supplier, raise it on the discovery call. Creuto can help you list what to request before the handover.
Creuto is direct about what it finds. If parts of the existing code are well written, they are kept. If a component is too risky to build on, the audit explains why and what replacing it would involve, so decisions are made on facts rather than assumptions about the previous team.