Codebase review
Structure, error handling, input validation, secrets in code, dependency versions, test coverage and the places where generated code typically cuts corners: auth, permissions, race conditions and data integrity.
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Production-Readiness Audit
Building an MVP is faster than ever. Knowing whether it can take real users, real data and a security questionnaire is still engineering work. We review the codebase, the infrastructure and the deployment path together, then hand you a ranked fix list your team can act on with or without us.
- Starts
- Within a week
- Scope
- Fixed, in writing
- Rollback plan
- On every change
The same checklist we use before taking our own clients' systems live — a two-country marketplace with Stripe Connect payments and a US healthcare platform under SOC 2.
This is for you if
- You shipped an MVP with AI coding tools and now have paying users on it
- A freelancer or agency delivered the app and nobody on your side can judge the code
- You are about to launch, raise, or sign a customer who will ask how it is hosted
- Something already broke in production and you want to know what else is waiting
What we do
What the $2,500 covers
Data layer
Schema, indexes, migrations and backups. We check whether the database will survive ten times today's traffic and whether you could restore it tomorrow.
Infrastructure and deployment
How the app is hosted, how it is deployed, what happens when a deploy fails and what happens when a server does. Secrets management, environment separation and SSL included.
Security exposure
Public endpoints, authentication flows, API keys, admin surfaces and the OWASP basics, checked against what a customer's security questionnaire will ask.
Observability
Whether you would know about an outage before your users do: logging, error tracking, uptime checks and alerting.
What you get
- Written report (PDF), one section per theme, in plain language
- Ranked fix list: every finding scored by risk to users and effort to fix
- Quick-wins section: what your own team can close in a day
- A 60-minute walkthrough call with the engineer who did the review
- A fixed-price quote for the top items, if you want us to apply them
Not included
- Applying the fixes (quoted separately once you have the list)
- Penetration testing against a live production system
- Feature work or redesign of the product
Anything outside this list is quoted before we start it, never invoiced afterwards.
Timeline
How it runs, start to finish
Day 0 — access
Read access to the repository and a read-only role on the cloud account. We never need write access for a review.
Days 1–3 — review
Code, data layer, infrastructure and security, against the checklist we use before any of our own systems goes live.
Day 4 — report
Findings written up and ranked. No raw scanner output: each item says what it is, why it matters and how to fix it.
Day 5 — walkthrough
We present the report, answer questions and agree on what matters most. You leave with a plan your team can execute alone if you want to.
Questions we always get
Our app was mostly written with AI. Is that a problem?
No. We use AI tools ourselves and the code is often fine. The gaps are usually the parts the tool was never asked about: permissions, backups, secrets, what happens under load. That is what the review finds.
What stacks do you review?
Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, Laravel/PHP, Flutter and React Native apps, on AWS or any mainstream host. If your stack is outside that, say so and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right reviewers.
Can you fix what you find?
Yes. Most clients take the fix list and ask us to quote the top items, then move to the DevOps Retainer to keep it that way. Those are priced separately so the audit stays honest.
Start your Readiness Audit
Bring the repository link and a rough idea of where it is hosted. In 20 minutes we will tell you whether the audit fits, what we expect to find, and when we can start.
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