Technical Rescue & Fractional CTO
When the system is too important to keep guessing.
HiTek steps into troubled software, brittle integrations, vendor handoffs, stalled roadmaps, and AI experiments that need production judgment. We stabilize the highest-risk areas and give you a realistic path forward.
Common triggers
You probably do not need a rebuild first. You need a diagnosis.
The expensive mistake is jumping straight to a new platform, new vendor, or new AI tool before understanding the actual failure points. We start by separating symptoms from causes.
Your custom app works, but every change feels risky.
Your development vendor disappeared, stalled, or left behind unclear ownership.
Your integrations break often and nobody has a full map of how data moves.
Your AI initiative produced demos but not a workflow your team can depend on.
Your roadmap is full, but nobody is ranking work by business value and technical risk.
You need senior technical judgment before hiring, rebuilding, or signing another vendor contract.
What you get
Clarity, risk reduction, and a practical sequence of work.
System and codebase review
Architecture, dependencies, data flow, deployment, security, observability, and maintainability review.
Integration audit
Map APIs, EDI, iPaaS/Boomi flows, data sync jobs, vendor feeds, error handling, and ownership gaps.
Stabilization plan
A prioritized list of fixes that reduces operational risk without forcing a premature rebuild.
Roadmap and vendor guidance
Clear technical direction for internal teams, contractors, vendors, or leadership stakeholders.
A good rescue engagement should make the next decision obvious.
Sometimes the answer is a focused fix. Sometimes it is replacing one brittle integration. Sometimes it is a phased modernization. And sometimes the honest answer is that the system is good enough and the process around it is the real problem.
The value is knowing which one is true before spending months and budget in the wrong direction.
Have a critical workflow, disconnected system, or AI idea that needs to become real?
Talk directly with Andrew Erie, CEO of HiTek, about the problem, the trade-offs, and the shortest practical path forward. No bloated discovery process — just senior technical judgment and clear next steps.