Question 1

What happens if Sushant is unavailable, on holiday or ill?

Accepted Answer

Nothing is locked to one person. Code, decision records and runbooks live in your repository from the first commit, scope and billing are written down before work starts, and retainers cancel or scale with 30 days' notice. Planned absences are agreed at kickoff and written into the sprint calendar.

Question 2

Can we talk to a past client before we commit?

Accepted Answer

Yes. ISKCON Guntur, ISKCON Palamu and Mayapur Seva Kart are live today, and each will take a reference call on request. For clients we do not name publicly, we arrange the call after an NDA. You can also read the code behind Vasuttam PMS on GitHub before we speak.

Question 3

What if the audit finds our code is in good shape?

Accepted Answer

You still receive the security report, the database analysis, the architecture and test scorecard, and a roadmap that says so in writing. The fee is fixed either way, and 100% of it is credited toward any follow-on work you choose to do.

Question 4

What does a typical Laravel rescue cost?

Accepted Answer

It depends on the size of the codebase. Every rescue starts with the 10-day audit, from $2,500, which maps the upgrade path and gives you a written quote for the rest. Small apps can be done in about a week: our last rescue took a 20k-line Laravel 5.6 app to Laravel 13 on PHP 8.4 in 1 week. Larger apps usually take 4–12 weeks.

Question 5

Who will actually write the code on my project, and how many engineers are you?

Accepted Answer

Sushant Gupta, the founder you speak to on the discovery call. Vasuttam Labs is a small studio and he writes and reviews the code on every engagement. We don't subcontract, and we don't staff juniors behind a senior pitch. If we ever propose adding an engineer, you interview them first and approve in writing.

Question 6

Do you use AI tools on our code?

Accepted Answer

Yes, we use AI-assisted development to move faster. Every change is still reviewed by Sushant, covered by tests and merged through your normal pull-request process. If your policy restricts AI tools on your code, tell us before the audit and we work within it.

Question 7

What if something breaks after you hand it over?

Accepted Answer

Every project milestone carries a 60-day warranty: if delivered code doesn't do what the written scope says, we fix it at no cost. The warranty does not cover retainer work; fixes during a retainer are billed as retainer time. Scope changes are written as change orders and signed before work starts, so the price you agree is the price you pay.

Question 8

How did you reach 80% test coverage on a 20k-line app in one week?

Accepted Answer

We wrote characterization tests with AI assistance and reviewed every one line by line, starting with the paths that move money and data: invoices, claims and permissions. The suite ran after every change, and each Laravel upgrade step was checked against it before the next one started.

Question 9

Which law governs our contract if we are outside India?

Accepted Answer

Our standard terms are governed by the laws of India. Your services agreement sets the final terms, and we are happy to discuss them before you sign.

Question 10

Our Laravel app is stuck on version 7/8 with zero tests. Can you upgrade it without freezing feature development?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We first write characterization tests around the flows that make you money. Then we upgrade one major version per PR on a branch rebased daily against main, so your team keeps shipping. Cutover is blue/green with Pennant flags on risky paths and a rehearsed rollback.

Question 11

How do intellectual property (IP), repository access, and NDAs work?

Accepted Answer

You own the repo and cloud from commit one: code lives in your repository and infrastructure in your cloud accounts. IP in each milestone is assigned to you as its invoice is paid, as written in the services agreement. Access starts read-only, then write access to a branch, all granted by you and revocable at any time. We sign your NDA, or provide ours, before we see any code, and IP assignment is written into the services agreement.

Question 12

What does it cost if the audit says we need a rewrite?

Accepted Answer

We recommend a rewrite only when the numbers justify it, and most codebases do not need one. Incremental upgrades and refactors usually land in 4–12 weeks of retainer time. If a rebuild is the right call, the roadmap gives a written estimate per milestone, and the audit fee is credited against it.

Question 13

How do invoicing and payment work from the US, UK or EU?

Accepted Answer

You contract with Vasuttam Ventures Private Limited, a registered Indian company. Invoices are in USD and paid by bank transfer (SWIFT or Wise). Services exported outside India are invoiced as zero-rated exports under GST, so no Indian tax is added for overseas clients.

Question 14

What does the first week look like?

Accepted Answer

Day 1: kickoff call, access granted, overlap hours agreed. Days 2–3: read the codebase, run the test suite and profile the hot paths. Days 4–5: first pull requests on agreed quick wins, plus a written note of what we found. All of it happens inside your GitHub, Linear or Jira and Slack, under your review rules. You see working code in week one, not a slide deck.

Question 15

What if we are unhappy after the first month?

Accepted Answer

Tell us, and we either fix what is wrong or you leave with 30 days' notice. Every line of code is already in your repository, with tests and decision records, so walking away costs you only the notice period and the final invoice.

Question 16

What does about 80 hours a month look like in practice?

Accepted Answer

Roughly half-time: about 20 hours a week, usually four focused hours every working day inside your overlap window. Hours are logged against your tracker, and unused hours do not silently roll into invoices.

Question 17

Do you work with teams outside India?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We work remotely, in English, with written specs, daily written standups and a fixed overlap window agreed at kickoff. Contracts and invoices are in USD from Vasuttam Ventures Private Limited, and we sign your NDA and services agreement.

Question 18

Can you work inside our CI, code review and security rules?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Our pull requests go through your CI, your reviewers and your branch protection, exactly like your own team. If you have a security policy or a vendor questionnaire, we follow it and answer it before we get access.

Question 19

Do you take fixed-bid work, and what if the scope changes?

Accepted Answer

Yes, through the fixed-scope milestone build. Scope and acceptance criteria are written down first, and each milestone is billed when it is deployed. If the scope changes, we quote the change in writing before doing it, so the price never moves silently.

Question 20

What time zones and communication cadence do you operate on?

Accepted Answer

We are based in Kolkata, India (IST, UTC+5:30) and available 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM IST, which overlaps the working day in the UK and EU and the morning in US East. We agree a fixed daily overlap window at kickoff. The cadence is a written standup every day, a Loom walkthrough every week, a sprint review every two weeks, and direct Slack access throughout.

Senior Laravel engineering for CTOs: stalled apps rescued, new ones shipped.

Four commitments, written into your contract.

The Founder Writes Your Code

Test-Backed Pull Requests

Your Repo, Your Cloud, Your IP

Async-First Transparency

Four reasons teams bring us in.

Custom SaaS & Product Engineering

Legacy Laravel Modernization & Rescues

Embedded Senior Developers

High-Velocity APIs, Payments & ERP Integrations

8 production systems, for real clients.

Health-insurance admin app: rescuing Laravel 5.6 with tests first

AI-powered back office: scanned bills and WhatsApp orders into the books

Multi-entity HRM and payroll with automatic accounting

AI shipment router with commerce and messaging plugins

E-commerce app with a live app designer for PrestaShop

Mayapur Seva Kart: hyper-local delivery

ISKCON Guntur: temple website, CRM and apps

ISKCON Palamu: temple platform with a devotee app

The 10-Day Laravel Codebase & Performance Audit.

Security & Dependency Vulnerability Report

Three ways to work together, no surprises.

Diagnostic Codebase Audit

Dedicated Engineering Retainer

Fixed-Scope Milestone Build

The engineer you'll actually work with.

We build and run our own production software.

Vasuttam PMS

Vasuttam POS

White-Label Hospitality OS

What we ship with.

Backend & Core

Frontend & Mobile

Data & Infrastructure

Quality & Testing

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Questions CTOs actually ask.

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