Vibe-Coded App Rescue & Production Hardening
You prototyped it with AI. We make it safe to put real customers on.
Vibe coding, describing what you want to an AI tool and accepting the code it writes, gets a working prototype in front of people faster than anything before it. The gap between a prototype and something you can safely put customers or staff on is where the trouble starts.
The usual gaps are unglamorous: sign-in that works but does not check who can see what, secrets left in the code, database rules that let any user read any row, no handling for when something fails, nothing backing the data up, and no tests on the parts that move money or permissions.
We start with a review, so you know what you have and what it will take. Then we fix and harden it, or, if the structure is the problem, we say so and scope a rebuild. Either way you finish with software you own, deployed on your accounts, that someone understands.
What you end up with
A straight assessment first
A written review of authentication, data access, secrets, error handling, dependencies and deployment, ranked by risk, with a plain recommendation: harden it, or rebuild it.
Access that is actually enforced
Users can only see and change what they should, enforced on the server and in the database rather than only hidden in the interface.
Fails safely, recovers quickly
Sensible error handling, logging you can read, backups that have been restored at least once, and a deployment you can roll back.
Code someone can maintain
Tests on the paths that matter, a clear structure, documentation, and the repository and hosting accounts in your name.
What actually lands
Shaped to the engagement, but this is the shelf it comes off.
- 01Codebase and security review with a ranked, written findings list
- 02Fixes for authentication, authorisation, secrets and input handling
- 03Database access rules, schema clean-up and migrations
- 04Error handling, logging, backups and a documented deployment and rollback
- 05Tests on payment, permission and data-changing paths
- 06Handover notes, plus optional ongoing support
Where this has shipped
Vibe coding to production, specifically
Building software by describing what you want to an AI coding tool and accepting the code it produces, often without reading it closely. It is a fast way to a prototype, and the code usually needs a proper review before real users depend on it.
Usually, yes. We review it first and tell you what it needs. Many apps can be hardened in place. Some are structured in a way that makes a rebuild cheaper than repair, and we will say so rather than bill you for patching it.
It matters less than you would think. Whatever tool wrote it, the result is a codebase plus the services it connects to, and that is what we review: the framework, the database, the sign-in, and where it is hosted. If the tool locks the code in its own platform, we will tell you what moving it out involves.
Yes, once on a published project: the materials marketplace began as an app generated on an AI app builder, and we audited it and moved it onto its own database, payments and hosting, with tests and CI. It was a migration of one app, not a body of reviews, and we say so.
Where it helps, with an engineer reading every change. You can say no, and the review and handover work the same either way.
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Where this is applied
Tell us about the process that keeps costing you.
A 15-minute call is usually enough to say whether this is an automation, an integration, or something that should be built, and whether we are the right people for it.
What happens on the call
- 15 minutes, no deck
- We map the process on the call
- A written scope, or an honest no