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It was definitely a success story. The company, their customers, and my company all benefited. It wasn't all rainbows (the story is a bit longer and more complicated), but it worked out well for everyone in the end.

If a consultant could jet in, diagnose and fix up some issues in a couple of days, that means the team did a pretty awesome job to begin with.

A truly inexperienced team would have created a spaghetti monstrosity that was practically unsalvageable.

Plus they apparently also managed to validate existence & viability of a market.