01.audit
Codebase audit
A written diagnosis of what you have, what's working, and what will hurt you next. Severity-tagged, board-shareable.
repo · infra · logs
// SERVICE · MVP RESCUE
Your AI-built MVP got you here. We'll get it to production.
Audit, security fixes, architecture untangling, tests, and a path to scale — for apps shipped with Cursor, v0, Lovable, or bolt. We don't judge the starting point. We make it real.
// THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE
The wall every AI-built MVP hits.
The first weekend goes great. The model writes the screens, the demo works, and a few hundred users sign up. Then the curve bends — and the gap between a demo that works and a product that holds stops being theoretical.
Auth has a hole nobody noticed. The database is doing every query without an index. State is tangled across a dozen files. Tests don't exist. The tool that built it can't take it any further. And the team is suddenly two engineers and a CEO trying to keep a thing in the air that wasn't designed to fly that long.
We've seen it a lot. We're not here to make you feel bad about it — AI tools are great at producing demos, and a demo is a different problem than a production system. The job is to keep the product running, fix the things that will hurt you, and turn the codebase into something a team can actually grow.
- Fragile code nobody on the team understands well enough to safely change.
- Security gaps in auth, secrets, or input handling that scare investors.
- Can't scale past a few hundred concurrent users without timing out.
- Tool ceiling — the original builder can't take it any further.
// WHAT'S INCLUDED
Six things we fix, in roughly this order.
Each engagement is scoped to your codebase, but the shape is the same: audit, stop the bleeding, build a safety net, refactor the hot paths.
02.security
Security hardening
Lock down auth, rotate secrets out of client bundles, fix the obvious holes — the things you don't want a stranger to find first.
auth · KMS · headers
03.refactor
Architecture refactor
Untangle the bits that are about to bite — state, boundaries, data access — without throwing away what works.
boundaries · data · state
04.tests
Test coverage
Integration tests around the money-movement and irreversible flows first; small e2e suite for the critical UI paths. CI required before merge.
integration · e2e · CI
05.perf_cost
Performance & cost
Profile the hot paths, kill N+1 queries, cache the right thing, and right-size infra. Cut p95 latency and the AWS bill on the same pass.
profiling · indexes · cache
06.scale
Scale-ready infra
Queues for heavy work, structured logs, alerts on SLOs, and a runbook the on-call engineer can actually read at 2am.
queues · logs · runbook
// HOW IT WORKS
Audit first. Harden in increments. No big-bang rewrite.
- Step 01 · Week 1
Audit.
We read the repo, the infra, and a sample of production logs. No commits in week one — just a written diagnosis with severity ratings.
- Step 02 · End of Week 1
Triage & plan.
We agree the order: what's critical, what's important, what's cosmetic. You see the trade-offs and the price before anything ships.
- Step 03 · Weeks 2–6
Harden in increments.
Small, deployable changes — usually one to three a day — behind feature flags, with rollback paths and weekly demos. No surprises.
- Step 04 · Ongoing
Handover or stay.
A short, opinionated runbook for your team — and the option to stay embedded while you hire. We pause or scale month to month.
// WHAT YOU GET
Concrete deliverables, in writing.
Every Rescue Sprint ends with the same set of artefacts. You can hand them to your next engineer on day one.
- Written audit documentseverity-tagged, board-shareable
- Critical fixes shipped to productionauth, secrets, the obvious holes
- Hardening plan for what's nextordered, scoped, costed
- Test harness & CIrequired green builds, no manual click-throughs
- Logs, alerts, & SLOsstructured logs, error tracking, on-call
- Runbook for your teamincidents, rollbacks, migrations
// PROOF
Numbers from a Rescue Sprint that ran in production.
20k+Active users supported on the rescued architecture
−70%p95 API latency after the hot-path rewrite
0Critical vulnerabilities at handoff (was 14)
CASE STUDY · RESCUE
Read the case study →How we rescued a Lovable-built fintech MVP and scaled it to 20,000 users.
// FAQ
The questions we get on the first call.
Short, honest answers. If yours isn't here, we'll get to it on the call.
Will you rewrite everything?
No. We harden in increments unless a rewrite is genuinely cheaper — which is rare. Rewrites add risk and delay value; in most cases the code you have can be refactored into something solid, one small deployable change at a time.
If a rewrite is the honest answer, we'll say so in the audit, with the trade-offs written down.
Do I need to share my repo?
Yes — read-only access is enough for the audit. We sign your NDA first, work from a separate fork during fixes, and only push back to your main repo once you've reviewed the plan.
If you're not ready to share code on the first call, that's fine too. We can scope the engagement from a description and a few screenshots.
How fast can you start?
Typically one to two weeks from the first call to kickoff. If your situation is on-fire — production down, security incident, a board meeting on Friday — we keep a small buffer for emergencies and can usually start within 48 hours.
What if it was built with no-code?
We can still help. Usually the right path is to move the parts that are about to break — auth, payments, the data layer — into real code, while keeping the no-code surface for the things it does well. That's often cheaper and lower-risk than a full rebuild.
If you're locked into a vendor that can't carry you any further, the audit will say so plainly and we'll walk you through the migration options.
Can you stay after the sprint?
Yes. Most Rescue engagements roll into an Embedded Team retainer for two to three months while you hire — same people, same context, same cadence. Month to month, no lock-in.
// LET'S TALK
Ready to make your MVP real?
Send us the repo or the situation — we'll come back within a day with an honest read on the path forward.