The vendor is shutting down
A sunset email with a date on it. After that date, years of records live inside a program that won't start.
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Legacy data extraction & migration
Your software is dying.
Your software is dying.
Your data doesn't have to.
When a vendor shuts down, sunsets your product, or forces a migration, we extract every record, prove it in writing, and land it in your new system — or a searchable archive you keep forever.
Fixed price, quoted within 48 hours of a scoping call. It doesn't move without your signature.
Validation manifestrescue-2026-SAMPLE
patients48,112 → 48,112 ✓
appointments312,405 → 312,405 ✓
treatment notes1,004,381 → 1,004,381 ✓
documents86,220 → 86,220 ✓
ledger entries598,022 → 598,022 ✓
exceptions2 — logged & explained
Illustrative manifest. Every rescue ends with one of these — reconciled, spot-audited, signed.
You're here because…
Three ways software strands your records
The system is too old to trust
The server still boots — for now. No patches, no support, and the one person who knew it has moved on.
See the archive option →You're being forced to migrate
The new system's importer brings over what it needs to switch you on. Ask what happens to everything else.
See the full-fidelity version →
The process
Five steps. A named deliverable at every one.
Preserve
Before anything else, we snapshot the entire system while it still runs. Two copies, one offline. You keep your originals until final sign-off.
Preservation Manifest
Extract
Every table, every document, every custom field — including the history and audit trails a standard export leaves behind.
Extraction Manifest
Validate
Source counts against extracted counts, checksums, and a 50-record spot audit we walk through with you. You sign off before the balance is due.
Validation Report
Land
Your data loads into the successor system, mapped field by field, with a post-load reconciliation.
Load Report
Archive
What doesn't belong in the new system stays searchable in a read-only archive. Export it all, any time. First 90 days included.
Your archive + credentials
Why it's different
Fixed price. Accounted for. Yours forever.
A fixed price with a date on it
Quoted within 48 hours of scoping. It never changes without a change order you sign first. No hourly meters running against a deadline.
Every record, in writing
The validation report reconciles every record type — and logs anything that couldn't carry over, with the reason. Read a sample.
No new hostage situation
The archive is read-only, exportable in full, any time — with certified destruction if you leave. You're escaping lock-in; we won't rebuild it.
The honest part
Why you won't find testimonials here — yet
Data Rescue Squad launched in 2026, for exactly this wave of shutdowns. We could rent borrowed credibility; instead, here is proof you can verify yourself before anyone asks for a dollar:
- Read the validation report you'd be signing — the whole document, before you ever call.
- 40% of the price is due only after you've personally spot-audited your own records against the source system.
- You keep your original data, untouched, until you sign off. A data-processing agreement is signed before anything moves.
- When the work ends, working copies are destroyed on a schedule — with a certificate.
When real engagements exist, their anonymized reports will replace this section. Until then: the terms are the testimonial.
Active rescue kits
Fixed-price kits for systems on a clock
A Rescue Kit is a package we've already prepared for a specific dying product: mapped data inventory, planned export path, validation checklist, public price.
IntraVet Rescue Kit
Patterson has stated the end of development for every version; reminder functionality becomes limited Jan 1, 2027 per its own support page. Both VO Classic and SQL lines. From $9,500 fixed.
See the IntraVet kit →PCLaw & Time Matters Rescue Kit
Support ended for 2023 R1/R2 versions Dec 31, 2025; 2024 R1 runs only through Dec 2026. Matters, documents, billing — and the trust ledgers your bar rules likely require you to keep. From $12,500 fixed.
See the PCLaw & Time Matters kit →Dates above: vendor announcements and support pages, verified August 2026 — full sources and retrieved-on dates on each kit page.
Not seeing your system? Any system, same process, custom quote — dental, property management, associations, AS/400s, homegrown databases. Tell us what you're running, or browse the Software Graveyard.
The next step
Thirty minutes. Come as you are.
Book a 30-minute rescue call
or send details first
Thirty minutes. Come as you are.
Leave with a plan and a number.
Book a 30-minute rescue call
or send details first
The call, the scoping, and the quote are free. So are the export guides — even if you do it yourself.