Security & data exposure
Exposed API keys, public database rules, unprotected endpoints, client-side secrets. The classic AI-builder failure modes — found before someone else finds them.
Existing App Audit
A fixed-fee engineering audit for apps built on Lovable, Base44, Replit, Bolt, or v0 — before real users, real payments, and real data are on the line.
What we audit
AI builders are genuinely fast — and consistent in what they get wrong. The audit is built around those failure patterns and run by senior engineers on your actual project, not a scanner.
Exposed API keys, public database rules, unprotected endpoints, client-side secrets. The classic AI-builder failure modes — found before someone else finds them.
Can one user read another’s data? Can a logged-out visitor reach paid features? We test every role against every route and endpoint, not just the buttons the UI shows.
Whether the schema and structure can carry your roadmap. AI builders optimize for the demo; we look at what happens at feature 20 and user 5,000.
Page weight, query patterns, N+1 calls, and platform limits. What breaks first under load — and at roughly how many users it happens.
Can a human developer — or the AI itself — keep building on this? We flag the duplication, dead code, and tangled logic that make every next feature slower than the last.
Hosting, database, and API spend at today’s usage, projected at 10× and 100×. Vibe-coded apps hide expensive loops that only show up on the invoice.
The honest answer
No lectures about “real code.” AI builders compress months of development into days, and used well they are a legitimate way to launch — we use AI heavily in our own builds. But these tools are trained to make things work in the demo, and the distance between “works in the demo” and “safe in production” is invisible from inside the tool.
That is what the audit is for. It is not a rebuild pitch — most apps we audit are worth keeping. You get a precise account of what is solid, what is fragile, and what is dangerous, so your next decision is an informed one.
Stripe going live means refunds, disputes, and real liability.
Emails, documents, health info — anything a breach turns into a legal problem.
Launch-day traffic finds every weak endpoint, fast.
Technical review goes better when you already know the answers.
Every prompt fixes one thing and breaks another. That’s an architecture smell.
The deliverable
Not 40 pages of scanner output. A document written for a founder to decide with, and for any developer to execute.
Every issue marked Critical, High, Medium, or Low — with the exact screen, rule, or file affected, proof it’s real, and what fixing it takes.
The order to fix things in, and why. Written so your developer can execute it — including ready-to-paste prompts where the fix goes back through your AI builder.
Where the app breaks under load, which platform limits you’ll hit first, and what it costs to run at 10× your current usage.
Ship it, fix it first, or rebuild it — with the reasoning in plain English, walked through live on a 60-minute call. Ours to give, yours to take anywhere.
How the audit runs
Fixed fee, agreed before we see a single file. No hourly meters, no scope drift.
NDA signed, then read-only access to your builder project, code export, and database. You tell us what launch looks like and what worries you at 2am. We confirm scope and lock the fee.
Senior engineers attack the app the way a bad actor would and read it the way your next developer will: auth probing, data-flow tracing, query profiling, and line-level code review where it matters.
You get the written report and a 60-minute walkthrough: what’s urgent, what can wait, and the verdict. If we find an actively exploitable hole earlier, you hear about it the same day.
After the report, three ways forward
The report is written to be executed without us — by your developer, or by your AI builder with the prompts we include.
A fixed-price sprint that clears the Critical and High findings, then re-tests every one of them.
Ask about a fix sprint →When the verdict really is rebuild, we migrate the app to clean, AI-ready code you own outright.
See how migration works →Request an audit
Share a link and where it was built, and we’ll reply within 1 business day with a fixed fee and a start date. If an audit isn’t worth your money yet — the app’s too early, or the risk is obviously somewhere else — we’ll say that instead.
We’ll take a first look and reply within 1 business day with a fixed fee, a start date, and our NDA.
Questions founders ask
No. Building on Lovable, Base44, or Replit was probably the right call — you have a real product and real momentum instead of a spec document. The failure modes of these tools are predictable and fixable, and finding them is exactly what the audit is for. The only bad version of this story is finding them after launch.
Read-only, and only after the NDA is signed: an invite to your builder project, a code export or repo access, and a limited database role. We never push changes during an audit, and access is revoked when it ends.
Lovable, Base44, Replit, Bolt, v0, and Cursor-built codebases — plus Bubble and other low-code platforms. If it can export code or grant project access, we can audit it. Not sure? Send the link anyway and we’ll tell you.
No. Most audits end in a fix list, not a rebuild. The report is deliberately written so any developer can execute it, and the verdict comes with the reasoning attached — it has to be worth the fee even if we never hear from you again.
Five business days from access for most apps. Multi-app systems or unusually large codebases get a longer timeline quoted up front, under the same fixed-fee rule.
The best time was before launch; the second-best is now. For live apps we order findings by active risk, and anything actively exploitable is reported the day we find it — not saved for the report.
Know before you launch
Fixed fee. NDA included. Report in 48-72 hours.