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Builder.ai Project Recovery: How We Rescue and Migrate Your App
Builder.ai's insolvency left many businesses with apps that were half-finished, unsupported or stuck on infrastructure they didn't control. If that's where you are, the good news is that most projects can be recovered. This post explains how our Builder.ai project recovery service works, step by step, so you know what to expect.
Who this is for
- Founders whose Builder.ai app stopped mid-build or was never handed over
- Businesses with a live app that nobody is maintaining any more
- Teams that have the code but can't run, change or deploy it
- Companies that want to move off Builder.ai infrastructure to a cloud account they own
Step 1: Understand where your project stands
We start with a short review of everything you have: repositories, app store accounts, cloud and domain access, design files, documents and contracts. We look at what was delivered, what works, what's missing and what caused the pause. You get a plain summary of the project's real state before you commit to anything.
Step 2: Plan recovery or migration
With the facts in hand, we agree a clear plan with you. Sometimes the best path is to finish and fix the existing code. Sometimes it's faster and cheaper to migrate to a stack your team can maintain. The plan sets out scope, milestones and priorities, so the features that matter most to your users come back first.
Step 3: Migrate to infrastructure you own
If moving away from Builder.ai makes sense, we move your app, data and integrations to your own cloud account, with your own domain and app store listings. Payment, messaging and analytics integrations are reconnected under your accounts. From that point, you hold the keys.
Step 4: Test and relaunch
Before anything goes live again, we test the app end to end on real devices, check data integrity and fix what we find. Then we deploy, monitor the release closely and stay on hand for the first weeks after launch.
What you keep
- Your code: in repositories under your name, with documentation.
- Your data: migrated carefully and protected throughout.
- Your accounts: cloud, domain, app stores and third-party services in your control.
- Your options: maintain the app with us, with your own team or with anyone else.
Recent recovery work
- EdTech app: migrated from Builder.ai to a custom LMS with Zoom and Stripe integration, scaling to 5,000+ users with onboarding twice as fast within 30 days.
- E-commerce marketplace: a stalled project rebuilt with WooCommerce and Flutter, adding multi-vendor, cash on delivery and analytics, and launched in 3 weeks.
- Healthcare SaaS: moved to a HIPAA-compliant Node.js and React stack on AWS with a secure patient portal.
What to prepare before you contact us
- Any repository links or code exports you received
- Logins for your cloud, domain, app store and payment accounts
- Your original scope, designs and contract, if you have them
- A short list of the features your users need most
Don't worry if some of this is missing. Part of our first review is working out what can be recovered and what has to be rebuilt. For the first things to do after the shutdown, read Builder.ai shut down: how to recover your app.
Talk to us
AnAInfo recovers and migrates Builder.ai projects for businesses in the UK, Europe, the USA and the UAE. See our Builder.ai recovery service or contact us to start with a review of your project.
