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For organizations

Engineering for what you've already built.

alapaap works with established small-to-medium businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions on the digital foundation they've outgrown, half-built, or never quite fixed. Migration. Compliance. Documentation your team can hand down.

Where you are

Operating. Compliant. Stuck with foundations that don't fit anymore.

You're past the launch phase. People rely on your email getting through. Your customers, members, or students rely on your website being correct. Compliance is a real concern — Data Privacy Act audits happen, GDPR matters for traffic from the EU, accessibility is no longer optional.

Meanwhile the foundation underneath is a stack of decisions made years ago by a contractor who is no longer reachable, running on a hosting account no one fully understands. The upgrade keeps getting deferred because nobody wants to be the one who breaks email or loses the website.

Migrations like this need engineering. Not a redesign, not a rebrand. Someone who has done the work before, who plans the cutover so nothing breaks, who leaves documentation behind so the next person can run on it.

What an engagement covers

Migration. Compliance. Documentation that survives turnover.

  • Migration without losing what works

    Email history preserved across provider switches. SEO rankings maintained across site rebuilds via redirects and canonical work. No mid-cutover surprises.

  • Compliance baked in

    PH Data Privacy Act (RA 10173) — consent flows, breach response, the technical safeguards the NPC actually inspects. GDPR for EU visitors. WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, tested before launch.

  • Documentation for the next person

    Admin runbooks covering user provisioning, password resets, account recovery, deployment, what to check when something breaks. Written so the next IT contractor or in-house hire can pick it up.

  • Stakeholder-friendly written outputs

    Audit reports, change orders, scope documents — readable by your board, your accountant, your legal review. Not buried in engineer-speak.

  • Cost surfaces controlled

    Cloud spend audited where it has accumulated. Hosting, workspace licences, third-party services — itemized and right-sized. Typical first-year saving offsets a meaningful share of the engagement cost.

  • Continuity over novelty

    No trendy frameworks. No vendor lock-ins. Setups that someone else can maintain. The next foundation should be calmer than the one before it, not harder to operate.

How it works

Audit first. Scope second. Migrate carefully.

  1. 01Audit

    Read-only access to the relevant systems. Inventory the current state, flag the risks, identify the highest-leverage fixes. A written report lands before any migration begins.

  2. 02Migrate

    Scope the work into phases. Test migrations in staging. Plan cutovers in low-traffic windows. Compliance work designed in during the migration, not after.

  3. 03Handover

    Documentation walkthrough with whoever owns admin day to day. 30-day support window. A small ongoing retainer is available if you want it, not required if you don't.

The services in scope

An organization engagement draws from these.

  • Migrate off WordPress, Wix, or Squarespace without losing rankings. Or a clean refactor of what's already there when the codebase justifies it.

  • Migrate from cPanel email or free Gmail to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 without losing mail history. SPF/DKIM/DMARC done right.

  • An existing site that doesn't rank, or rankings that have slipped after a Google update. Technical audit, fix list, then content work.

  • Years of accumulated AWS or GCP waste. A structured review that surfaces 20–40% in itemized cost savings plus security baseline gaps.

  • Repetitive customer queries, content production, or back-office work where AI saves time. Guardrails so failures don't reach customers.

Next step

Schedule a 30-minute call.

Tell us what you've got and what isn't working. We do an initial audit before scoping anything, so the first conversation is about understanding, not selling.