Vibe-code rescue
Your vibe-coded app worked in the demo.We make it work in production.
You built something real with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, v0 or Replit — and now it has users, and now it breaks. We are senior engineers who audit, fix and harden vibe-coded apps without throwing away what you made.
45%
of AI-generated code introduces an OWASP Top-10 security vulnerability
Veracode, GenAI Code Security Report
2,000+
vulnerabilities found across 1,400+ scanned vibe-coded production apps, including 400+ exposed secrets
Escape.tech, 2025
66%
of developers say their top frustration is AI code that is almost right, but not quite
Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Why AI-built apps fail after launch
AI tools are genuinely good at getting from idea to working prototype. What they skip is everything a demo does not need: real authentication, row-level security on your database, rate limiting, input validation, error handling, backups. Nothing fails until the first real users — or the first curious attacker — arrive.
The failure modes are consistent. Exposed API keys in client code. Supabase tables with no row-level security, so any user can read every row. Auth checks that only exist in the interface. Payments stubbed to succeed. One production Lovable audit (CVE-2025-48757) found 170 live apps leaking names, emails and financial data this way.
The fix rarely requires a rebuild. It requires a senior engineer who has shipped production software, reading your codebase with a checklist AI does not have and paying down the technical debt it left behind. That is the work we do.
What we fix
- Security holes
- Exposed keys, SQL injection, missing row-level security, client-side-only auth, missing CSRF protection and security headers. The exact list from real vibe-code breach postmortems.
- Broken auth & data
- Login flows that half-work, users who can see other users’ data, databases with no migrations or backups. Fixed at the schema level, not patched over.
- Bug loops
- The change-one-thing-break-two-things cycle that AI iteration creates. We refactor the duplicated code and add tests so changes become safe again.
- Performance
- Slow loads from queries that fall over at scale, oversized bundles and chatty APIs. Measured, fixed, and verified with real numbers.
- Payments & integrations
- Stripe flows that actually charge and refund, webhooks that retry, CRM and email integrations that do not silently drop data.
- Deployability
- Version control, environments, CI, monitoring and error alerts — so the next incident is an email to you, not a public outage.
How it works
Free audit
Send the app URL — repo access if you have it. A senior engineer runs a hand code review and sends written findings in 48 hours.
Fixed-scope rescue
We quote a fixed price for the specific fixes, ranked by risk. Critical security issues first. From $999.
Harden and hand over
You get a working, secured app plus a plain-language runbook — or keep us on for ongoing engineering.
Where to start
Client Delivery Sprint
$999 one-time
One defined outcome, delivered by a senior engineer on a fixed scope. The lowest-risk way to see how we work.
Embedded Delivery Pod
From $4,000 per month
Ongoing senior-led delivery with a clear monthly capacity. We prioritize with you, own delivery, and stay.
Every engagement starts the same way: the free technical audit. You see our thinking on a real project before any money changes hands.
Straight answers
- Do I have to rebuild from scratch?
- Almost never. The visual layer AI tools produce is usually fine. The problems live in auth, data access and integrations — which can be fixed inside your existing codebase for a fraction of a rebuild.
- Which tools do you cover?
- Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, v0, Replit, Claude Code, Base44, Windsurf — and combinations. The failure patterns are similar across all of them; the fix process is the same.
- What counts as a vibe-coded app?
- Anything where AI wrote most of the code: an app prompted into existence in Lovable or Bolt, a Cursor project that grew past what you can review, a Replit agent build. If it works but nobody has actually read the code, it qualifies.
- What does a vibe code cleanup cost?
- Typical rescue shops quote $3,000–15,000 and up. We start smaller: the audit is free, most first fixes fit the $999 fixed-scope sprint, and bigger work gets a fixed quote before anything starts — a non-technical founder never signs an open-ended hourly bill.
- Will you judge my code?
- No. You shipped something real, which is more than most. Our job is to make it safe and maintainable, not to lecture you about it.
- How fast can you start?
- The audit takes 48 hours from when you send the URL. For critical security exposure — leaked keys, open databases — we triage the same day.
Find out what would break first.Before your users do.
Send your app for a free written audit. A senior engineer reviews it by hand — findings in 48 hours, no call required.
