For founders with AI-built MVPs
Built it with AI?
Don’t pay $10,000
to fix the wrong thing.
An independent audit of your Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, Claude Code, or Replit app — before you hire a developer. We tell you what to fix first, what to wait on, and what not to pay anyone to rebuild yet.
Free triage in 24 hours. No credit card. We don’t do the cleanup ourselves — so we have no reason to oversell it.
The problem with “clean it up”
Most non-technical founders ask developers the wrong question.
You ask, “can you clean this up?”
That leads to vague answers, $8,000 to $25,000 quotes, and a rebuild that may not even be necessary.
The better question is:
“What are the top technical risks? What must be fixed first? What can wait? And what should we absolutely not rebuild yet?”
That’s what an AI Launch audit gives you. In plain English. Before you sign anything.
What we audit
Six things a senior engineer would worry about.
- 01
Salvage vs. rebuild
Is the app fixable, or are you about to throw good money after bad? Most aren't as bad as you think.
- 02
What to fix first
We rank by what hurts your real users and your real bill. Not the most theoretically broken thing — the one that bites soonest.
- 03
Database & data model
Does the schema fit the product you're actually building? Or did the AI invent ten tables that should be two?
- 04
Auth, security, privacy
Hardcoded keys. Endpoints with no auth. RLS policies that look strict but aren't. The stuff that ends in a breach email.
- 05
Infrastructure & cost
Why is the AWS bill $400 a month with no users? Which deploy choices will hurt at 1,000 users? Where's the time bomb?
- 06
Developer handoff
A scope-of-work a real engineer can read. Specific tasks, in order, with rough hour estimates. Not a wish list.
The part no other audit does
We tell you what not to pay for yet.
Most audits hand you a 40-page list and a phone number for someone who can implement all of it. Predictable: you end up paying $10K to “fix everything,” including a bunch of things that weren’t breaking anything.
Fix before launch
- Anything that exposes user data
- Hardcoded keys checked into git
- Routes anyone can hit with curl
Fix soon, not yet
- Schema drift that'll bite at 5K users
- Logging that'll inflate your bill
- Missing tests on critical paths
Can wait
- Code style and naming
- A few duplicated components
- TypeScript escape hatches
Don't pay for this yet
- A full rewrite
- Switching frameworks
- Polish on features no user has touched
We don’t do the cleanup ourselves.
So we have no reason to oversell it.
How it works
Three steps. The first two are free.
- 01
You send your repo or app URL.
Public GitHub, private repo invite, or a zip. We support every major AI builder.
- 02
We audit it like a senior engineer would.
Half AI (faster, broader), half human (judgment, ranking, false-positive removal). One human at the end of it. Always.
- 03
You get a plain-English report.
Salvage verdict. Top 10 risks. What to fix first. What not to pay for yet. A developer-ready scope of work.
A real finding, anonymized
What one finding looks like.
Your “admin” endpoint isn’t admin-only.
The app hides the admin page from regular users in the UI — but the API endpoint behind it has no server-side check. Anyone who guesses the URL can read every user’s email and Stripe ID with a single curl.
Hiding a button is not security. We see this in roughly 7 out of 10 audits.
Paste-into-Cursor fix prompt
In src/app/api/admin/users/route.ts, add server-side auth. Use the session from auth(), return 401 if no session or if session.user.role !== ‘admin’. Add a Vitest test that hits the route without a session and asserts 401.
Pricing
One free door. Three paid doors.
Start with the free triage. If you want it deeper, walked-through, or you want introductions to developers we’d hire ourselves — there’s a paid path for each.
MVP Triage
A 1-page diagnosis. Salvage or rebuild? Top 5 risks? Worth hiring for, or not yet?
- Salvage vs. rebuild verdict
- Top 5 launch-blocking risks
- Plain-English explanation per risk
- 24-hour turnaround
Developer Handoff Audit
The full report. The one you send to a developer before you sign a quote.
- Everything in MVP Triage
- Full 6-domain audit
- Developer-ready scope of work
- “What not to pay for yet” list
- 30-minute Loom walkthrough
- 1 week of email follow-up
Hiring Concierge
Audit + 60-min strategy call + we introduce you to two vetted developers we’d hire ourselves.
- Everything in Handoff Audit
- 60-min strategy + SOW shaping call
- Intros to 2 vetted devs for the work
- We sit in on the first call with them
- 2 weeks of Slack follow-up
7-day refund on every paid tier. We can’t refund time you spent reading the report, but if it wasn’t useful we’ll refund the money.
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Talk to an expert
You don’t get a chatbot.
You get me.
I’m a senior engineer who spent 10+ years building, scaling, and salvaging production systems on AWS. Then AI coding tools showed up.
I watched a wave of founders ship beautiful MVPs with the same five categories of landmines baked in. Then I watched them get quoted $15,000 to “clean it all up” — most of which wasn’t the problem.
AI Launch is the help I wish existed for founders the first time their app got hit with real traffic, a real bill, or a real security report from a real customer.
On the walkthrough call we’ll go through your report line by line. We’ll talk about the choices your AI made for you. And we’ll decide what’s worth fixing first — and what to leave alone.
Frequently asked
The questions everyone asks.
Is my code shared with anyone?
No. Audits are private. We never publish or share your code. Anonymized findings only appear in public ‘teardown’ posts with your written permission — and only if you want a discount in exchange.
What if you tell me “don’t hire anyone yet”?
Then we’ve done our job and saved you $5K-$15K. The Triage and Handoff Audit are flat-fee, so we have zero incentive to gin up reasons to spend money. Several past audits ended with “ship it, you’re fine.”
How is this different from a security scanner or CodeRabbit?
Those are tools. We’re a tool plus a person. AI does the wide scan (faster, broader), a senior engineer reviews every finding, removes false positives, and explains why each one matters in plain English. Most importantly: a scanner can’t tell you what NOT to fix.
Do you actually fix the code?
Not on the audit tiers. We hand you a report and paste-into-Cursor prompts. On the $999 Hiring Concierge tier we introduce you to two vetted developers who do the fixing — and we sit in on the first call to make sure scope stays sane.
What stacks and AI tools do you cover?
Anything common in AI-built apps: Cursor, Claude Code, Bolt, Lovable, Replit, v0, Copilot. Stacks: Next.js, React, Node, Python, Supabase, Postgres, Firebase, Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS, Stripe, NextAuth, Clerk. Used something weirder? Ask — usually yes.
How long does it take?
MVP Triage: 24 hours. Developer Handoff Audit: 2-3 business days. Hiring Concierge: 5 business days, then we’re on Slack with you for two weeks.
What if I’m unhappy?
7-day refund on every paid tier. Reply to any email and say so — we’ll refund in full, no questions. The Free Triage is, well, free.
Before you spend a dollar on a developer
Find out what your AI actually shipped.
Free triage. 24-hour turnaround. We tell you whether to hire someone, what to fix yourself, and what to leave alone.
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