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Healthcare platform case study

Before Grail 6 months

with the previous vendor

After takeover 30 days

to rebuild the platform

By day 40 100

business customers onboarded

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Case study / Healthcare platform

Six months stuck. Thirty days to production.

Grail took over the codebase, chose the fastest safe route and kept ownership after launch.

Case file / 001
Before Grail 6 months stalled

The previous vendor had not moved the platform to market.

Takeover 1.5m lines inherited

Grail secured the product context, codebase and release path.

Day 30 Platform rebuilt

The critical platform was rebuilt and ready for production.

By day 40 100 businesses

The customer had begun onboarding business customers.

500 bug and feature tickets handled across a 10-day period

A quick diagnostic

Is your current vendor moving your product fast enough?

Answer / 01

Then this is an ownership problem.

Grail can take over the backlog, releases and day-to-day engineering within days—under one accountable pod and a fixed monthly cost.

Show us what is stuck ↗

What slow delivery looks like

The backlog is the visible part.

The deeper problem is fragmented ownership: product context sits in meetings, release responsibility is unclear and nobody controls the whole path to production.

Common symptoms, causes and business consequences of slow software delivery.
What you seeWhat is brokenWhat it costs
01Features miss their datesNo one owns the path from request to production.Revenue waits
02The same bugs returnChanges ship without a reliable verification loop.Trust falls
03Every request needs another meetingProduct context lives in people, not the delivery system.Cost rises
04Changing vendors feels impossibleAccess, knowledge and release control sit with the vendor.You stay stuck

Grail: We take ownership of the whole path from request to production—then keep the same pod shipping.

The Grail Software Factory

Every request enters one controlled delivery loop.

Customers use a dashboard. Grail engineers control the Factory behind it—configured around each product, codebase and release path.

grail_factory / client_001 Live
Incoming work3 requests
BUG-1732Triaging

Payment retry fails in production

FEATURE-41Queued

Add multi-location reporting

REQUEST-18Queued

Update cancellation workflow

01Triage

Read the ticket and product context.

02Specify

Turn the request into a bounded plan.

03Implement

Agents build inside Grail’s client setup.

04Review

Grail engineers inspect risk and decisions.

05Verify

Tests reject incomplete work.

06Release

Ship, monitor and report back.

Grail engineers in control Agents execute · humans decide · customers see progress
How the Software Factory works

In plain English

Agents triage, specify, implement, review, verify and monitor the work. Grail engineers remain in the loop wherever product judgement, risk ownership or customer context is required.

This is not AI replacing engineers. It is Grail engineers delivering far more work without losing control of quality.

From first call to takeover

You always know what happens next.

We move quickly without asking you to diagnose the entire codebase first.

  1. First conversationWhat is stuck, at risk and must move first
  2. Technical accessRepository, infrastructure, backlog and release path
  3. Takeover assessmentChoose the fastest safe route: improve or rebuild
  4. Plan and contractPriorities, checkpoints, team and fixed monthly cost
  5. Factory goes live →The Grail pod begins stabilising and clearing work

Typical: Software Factory live from day 7. Timing depends on system access and complexity.

Improve or rebuild?

We choose the route that gets you moving safely.

Rebuilding is not automatically better. We keep what can support reliable releases.

We improve when

The foundation is sound enough to keep.

  • Core architecture can support the next stage
  • Production data and business logic are trustworthy
  • Failures are concentrated in identifiable parts
  • A reliable release process can be restored quickly

Typical route

  1. Days 1–3Secure access and map critical paths
  2. Days 4–7Stabilise releases and stop obvious failures
  3. Week 2 onwardClear the backlog and improve continuously

OutcomeKeep the valuable foundation. Restore delivery speed.

What you actually buy

One accountable Grail engineering pod.

Not a licence. A managed delivery relationship with Grail engineers at the controls.

What’s included
Proposal#GRAIL-TAKEOVER
Commercial modelFixed monthly cost
Grail engineering podGrail engineers responsible for delivery
Custom Software FactoryConfigured around your product and workflow
Customer dashboardRequests, status, communication and release history
Continuous ownershipBacklog, releases, monitoring and improvement
No handover after the build. The same pod keeps shipping. Book a call ↗

The next checkpoint

Show us the software everyone is tired of explaining.

We will tell you what we would take over first, whether we would improve or rebuild, and what the first delivery checkpoint should be.

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