FileMaker Rescue · Support · Modernization
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.
$3,500–$5,000 Fixed · about a week
We move quickly to understand where your system actually stands today — whether that's an active problem that needs fixing now, or years of quiet uncertainty about it finally getting a clear answer. We stabilize or safeguard whatever needs it, put a proper backup in place wherever the system allows it, and give you a plain-English picture of where things stand. If something turns out to need more than a week to responsibly address, we'll flag that early rather than let it become a surprise, rolling straight into Document & De-risk.
$7,500–$12,000 Fixed · 3–4 weeks
We dig into your system's tables, scripts, layouts, and integrations until you're no longer dependent on one person to explain it — documented, not just diagnosed. You get a risk assessment and a modernization roadmap with a fixed quote. 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 modernizes 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.
$1,200/mo One request at a time
Small ongoing fixes, layout tweaks, new reports, and script changes — queued and delivered one at a time, roughly 3–5 business days each, every change tested against a backup first. No hourly billing, no scope creep. Requests larger than a few hours are scoped and quoted separately rather than queued. Pause or cancel anytime. Available once your system has been through Rescue, Document & De-risk, or Modernize with us.
Most clients start with Assess & Stabilize, then decide from there whether Document & De-risk makes sense — each 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.
Modern AI tooling reverse-engineers schemas and translates legacy logic — powering modernization that happens 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 Assess & Stabilize 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: modernize gradually while your FileMaker system stays live. Accentage's Document & De-risk engagement maps out where the real value and risk are, then modernization 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, modernization 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.
Yes — Care & Evolution is a flat $1,200/month retainer for ongoing small requests: a new report, a tweaked script, a workflow change. Requests are queued one at a time and delivered in roughly 3-5 business days each, with every change tested against a backup first. No hourly billing, and no scope creep since larger requests are scoped and quoted separately. It's available once we've completed an initial engagement together, so we already know your system before taking on ongoing changes.
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 free, 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 the person who'll actually be doing the work.
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