Your AI-built app has real users now.
Built with Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Cursor or Claude Code? We close the security gaps, make deployments safe and reversible, add monitoring and tests, and get it ready for a security review or a traffic spike. Without a rewrite.
Something forced the issue.
- A customer sent a security questionnaire. Forty questions about encryption, access control, incident response and data retention. The deal is waiting on answers you don't have.
- Due diligence is coming. Your investors are bringing in someone technical to look at what you built. You'd like that to go well.
- You've had an outage. It came back, you're not sure why it went down, and you have no confidence it won't happen again.
- Traffic is growing. What handled two hundred users is visibly straining at two thousand, and twenty thousand is on the roadmap.
- You're about to launch. Fixed date, real marketing spend behind it, one chance at a first impression.
If none of these have happened yet, you probably don't need this yet. When one does, the clock is usually short — which is why the work is scoped in weeks rather than months.
What actually gets fixed.
- Security. Secrets moved out of the codebase into proper management. Authentication and authorization checked on every route, not just the ones that were remembered. Rate limiting, input validation, dependency vulnerabilities, production access locked down and logged.
- Data. Backups that exist and have been restored at least once, because an untested backup is not a backup. Proper migrations. Query and index review, so one slow page can't take everything else with it.
- Payments and sensitive data. Idempotency, so a retry doesn't charge twice. Webhook verification. Audit trails. Card and personal data kept out of systems that shouldn't hold it. Built on direct experience with PCI-DSS integrations across Stripe, PayPal, Worldpay, PayU and CCAvenue.
- Deployment. An automated pipeline. Releases that don't take the site down. A rollback that has been tested before you need it. A staging environment that resembles production closely enough to be worth having.
- Monitoring. Alerts that reach a human, error tracking, and enough visibility that you learn about problems before your customers do.
- Infrastructure and cost. Right-sized and scaled sensibly. On one financial platform re-architecture, monthly infrastructure cost fell by roughly 76%.
- Tests where they matter. Not full coverage — that's the wrong goal here. Tests around the paths that would hurt most if they broke: payments, authentication, data integrity. Enough that the next change stops feeling like a gamble.
How it runs.
Technical review — $500
A few days. Full assessment of the codebase, infrastructure and deployment setup. You get a written report, a prioritized risk list, a remediation plan with real estimates, and a walkthrough call. You can stop here, and some people do.
Scoping
We agree exactly what is in and what is out, at a fixed price with a fixed date. No open-ended hourly work.
The work — three to six weeks
Highest-risk items first, so value lands early even if you pause partway. Weekly written updates. Everything goes into your repository as it happens through pull requests you can read.
Handover
Documentation, runbooks and a walkthrough, so whoever works on it next isn't guessing. Ongoing cover is a separate monthly arrangement — offered, never assumed.
What you're left with
- A written record of what was wrong and what was done — usable with customers and investors, not just engineers
- Deployments you can run without holding your breath
- Monitoring that tells you before your users do
- Answers to the security questionnaire
- A codebase your next developer can work in
What this isn't
- No new feature work during a stabilization engagement — mixing the two is how both go badly
- No rewriting working systems for aesthetic reasons
- No engagements for apps with no users yet; there's nothing to stabilize
Start small, decide later.
| Stage | Price |
|---|---|
| Technical review Fixed price, no commitment. Credited against stabilization if you proceed within 30 days. | $500 |
| Stabilization Final price shared after the review, set by scope and complexity once the real state of things is known. | from $4,500 |
Before you book.
Why can't I just ask an AI to audit it?
You can, and you should — it will find real things. The problem is what comes back: sixty findings with severity labels and no way for you to tell which three will actually take you down and which fifty-seven are noise. Knowing what not to fix is most of the value, and AI tools are poor at it because they're rewarded for finding things. There's also the part no tool provides: a senior engineer putting their name on "this will hold, and here's what breaks first" — which is what an investor or an enterprise customer is actually asking for.
Will you tell me I have to rewrite everything?
Almost certainly not. Rewrites are usually the wrong answer and always the expensive one. Most of what gets found is fixable in place. If something genuinely does need rebuilding, you'll be told why in terms of what it costs you not to.
What if I don't like the findings?
You still own the report and the plan, and you're under no obligation to hire us for the fix. That's precisely why the review is priced separately.
How much of my time does this take?
About an hour at kickoff, a short weekly check-in, and access to your systems. The point is that you keep running your business.
Do I have to stop shipping while you work?
No, but coordinate on anything touching the same areas. You'll be told which files to stay out of.
What if you find something catastrophic?
You hear about it the same day, not in week four. If it changes the scope, we re-scope before spending your money.
Find out what you're actually sitting on.
Twenty minutes, no pitch. Describe what you've built and what's worrying you, and you'll get a straight answer on whether it's a problem worth spending money on.