Best for
- Projects years behind on upgrades and afraid to start
- Cutting through vulnerability-scanner noise to the real risks
- Shrinking a dependency tree nobody has questioned in years
What you give it
- Your project and its lockfiles
- Risk appetite: how boldly to upgrade, and any frozen areas
What you get back
- An inventory: what you depend on, why, what is outdated, what is abandoned
- Vulnerabilities triaged by whether YOUR usage is exposed, not just the CVE score
- Upgrades executed smallest-risk-first, tests green after each, breaking changes handled
How it works
- Builds the real picture first: direct vs transitive, maintained vs abandoned, used vs installed-and-forgotten.
- Triages vulnerabilities by reachability in your code — a critical CVE in code you never call is a different conversation.
- Sequences upgrades: patches and minors in safe batches, majors staged with their breaking changes mapped to your usage.
- Runs the test suite after every batch; a red suite stops the batch, not the honesty.
- Recommends removals: every dependency you drop is maintenance you never do again.
Example
You: The scanner reports 47 vulnerabilities and we are two major versions behind on the framework. Where do we start?
Result: Triage: 41 of 47 are in dev tooling or unreached code paths; 6 real, 2 urgent. The urgent pair patched same day. Then an upgrade ladder: 12 minor bumps batched and green, the framework major staged into 4 steps with its breaking changes mapped to the 9 places they bite. Three unused packages removed on the way.
Limits — please read
- Majors with deep API changes take real migration work — it maps and executes, but the effort is what it is.
- Triage reduces noise; it does not promise a vulnerability is unexploitable forever. Patching remains the end state.
- New dependencies are proposed with a written case, never slipped in during an upgrade.