FileMaker Services · Assessment · Future-Proofing
Whatever's been holding your business hostage to one system and one person doesn't have to get fixed. It can get replaced with something better, piece by piece, while the old system keeps running exactly as it always has — until the day you don't need it anymore. There's no single risky night where everything switches over at once. Just your business, gradually running on something modern, at your pace.
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If any of those is you, you don't need a proposal process. You need someone competent to take the problem off your hands this week — at a price you knew before you called.
Most FileMaker shops bill hourly and quote after discovery. We publish our rates, because open-ended billing is exactly how these systems became hostages in the first place.
No charge 15–30 MINUTES
A plain conversation to understand your situation and confirm we're a good fit — no deliverable, no obligation. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
$1,000–$1,500 Fixed · about a week
A focused, hands-on review — nothing in your live system is touched or changed. You get a written assessment covering what we found, how complex it really is, and a specific, actionable recommendation for what should happen next. Stands on its own; not a discount toward any other engagement.
$5,000–$7,500 Fixed · 10 business days
This is the targeted fix, not a full system review — we diagnose what's actively bothering you today: an active problem, frustrating slowness, or a specific capability you've wanted to add, then go in and remedy that one thing directly. That means hands-on work inside your system — stabilizing it if something's genuinely unstable, tuning it if it's just slow, or building what you actually want to add — with a proper backup in place wherever the system allows it, and a plain-English picture of what we found and fixed. If it turns out to be bigger than this scope can responsibly cover, we'll say so early and point you to Document & De-risk instead.
$7,500–$12,000 Fixed · 3–4 weeks
Where Diagnose & Remedy handles one specific thing, this goes wall-to-wall: every table, script, layout, and integration in your system, mapped and documented, until you're no longer dependent on one person to explain any of it. The value isn't the documentation itself — it's what it buys you: a reliable, fixed quote for Future-Proof instead of a guess dressed up as a number, and the tacit business rules nobody wrote down surfaced now, on your terms, instead of discovered mid-rebuild where they're expensive to fix. If your system turns out considerably larger or more tangled than typical, we'll say so before continuing rather than quietly cut corners.
Scoped from Document & De-risk NEVER ONE BIG SWITCH
Your system future-proofs in independent stages while FileMaker stays live and in charge throughout — each stage is designed to avoid disrupting what's already working, rather than betting everything on one big rebuild. Every stage is scoped and fixed-price on its own once Document & De-risk is complete.
Every relationship starts with a no-charge Intro Call. From there, most clients move to First Look or straight into Diagnose & Remedy, depending on what makes sense — each paid engagement is priced and billed on its own. Every engagement is delivered hands-on by a small, senior team rather than a rotating bench of subcontractors — so start dates are scheduled, not instant. Most work begins within a few business days of booking.
You know the cost before we start, not after. Productized engagements with defined deliverables.
Enterprise software, databases, and AI systems — including conversational and AI-assisted modernization work for national brands.
We work with the most capable AI and modern tooling available to clear away the tedious parts — schema reverse-engineering, boilerplate script translation — so our attention goes into the judgment calls: the business rules nobody wrote down, the edge cases that matter. That's what lets future-proofing happen piece by piece, never with a single risky switch-over, instead of one all-at-once rebuild.
The Document & De-risk deliverable is yours. Take it to any developer — including not us.
First, get a proper backup in place wherever the system allows it, and gather your Claris licensing details — before anything else changes. Then get the system properly assessed so you're not dependent on one person again. Accentage's Diagnose & Remedy engagement covers both, starting immediately, at a fixed price.
The most common causes are an overloaded FileMaker Server, unindexed fields in heavily used layouts, aging scripts written for older versions, and file corruption accumulating over years. These are diagnosable and usually fixable within days — crashing does not mean you have to abandon the system this month.
There's a third option beyond replace-it-all-at-once or keep-patching-forever: future-proof it gradually while your FileMaker system stays live. Accentage's Document & De-risk engagement maps out where the real value and risk are, then Future-Proof happens in independently priced stages — never one big rebuild, and never a single risky switch-over night.
There isn't one number, because there's no one rebuild. Once Document & De-risk maps what your system actually does, Future-Proof happens in independently priced stages — each one fixed-price and delivered without ever taking your existing system offline. Most businesses come out ahead of a one-time rebuild quote, spread over 12–18 months instead of a single cliff.
Yes — that is most of what we do, whether the previous developer already left or is on their way out. Undocumented systems are our standard starting point; the first engagement gets it stable and properly assessed, and the second produces full documentation so the knowledge is never trapped in one person again.
Tell us what's happening with your system — fifteen minutes is usually enough to tell you what's wrong, what it costs, and how fast it can be fixed. The call is no charge, the quote is fixed, and if we're not the right fit we'll say so and point you somewhere better. We're a small, hands-on team, so replies come within one business day — not instantly, but from someone who actually understands your situation, not a call center.
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