Software Janitor

We take messy, rushed, or AI-built codebases and make them something you can build a business on.

A service of Butterknife LLC, a California limited liability company.

Our services

Under the Software Janitor™ mark, Butterknife LLC provides the following services: software development consulting in the field of remediation, refactoring, and technical debt reduction; custom design, development, and implementation of computer software; and maintenance of computer software.

In practice, that looks like:

  • Codebase audits. We read your code the way a buyer or investor would, and give you a written report on what's solid, what's fragile, and what's going to bite you.
  • Cleanup of AI-built ("vibe-coded") software. Duplicated logic, dead code, half-finished patterns, and security holes left behind by fast AI-assisted building. We find them and fix them.
  • Refactoring and technical debt reduction. Restructuring working-but-messy code so new features stop taking three times longer than they should.
  • Software maintenance. Ongoing care for codebases that don't have a full-time engineering team: dependency updates, bug fixes, security patches.
  • Test and CI cleanup. Getting your test suite and deployment pipeline to a state where green actually means working.
  • New software builds. The same platform and crew, starting clean. We design and build new software from napkin sketch to production, with AI doing the heavy lifting and our engineers reviewing every change.

The engine behind it

Software Janitor™ isn't just a crew, it's our technology. Behind every engagement is the Software Janitor™ platform, a multi-agent workflow engine we built in-house. Specialized AI reviewers for architecture, security, and quality work your codebase in parallel, with our human engineers in the loop reviewing every change before it ships. Everything is audited, traced, and validated.

How an engagement works

1. You email us a short description of your project and what hurts.

2. We do a paid assessment and send you a prioritized cleanup plan with a fixed quote.

3. We do the work in reviewable chunks. You see every change before it ships.

Show us the mess

Every engagement starts with one email. No call required.

info@butterknifellc.com