Bolt, Lovable, v0, Cursor and Replit are genuinely good at getting you to something that runs. What they're not good at is everything that happens after the first real user shows up: auth that holds, a database that doesn't fall over, secrets that aren't sitting in the client bundle, and code someone can still work on in six months.
We take AI-generated codebases and make them production-ready. Not a rewrite — a hardening pass on what you already have.
What usually needs fixing
Across the AI-generated codebases we've reviewed, the same problems come up. Not because the tools are bad, but because they optimise for a working demo and these things don't show up in a demo.
Authentication that looks right and isn't
Client-side route guards with no server-side check behind them. The UI hides the page; the API happily returns the data.
Database rules left open
Row-level security disabled or set to permissive defaults, so any authenticated user can read any other user's records.
API keys in the client bundle
Anything prefixed for public exposure ships to the browser. It happens constantly, and it's usually the OpenAI key.
No input validation on the server
The form validates. The endpoint behind it takes whatever you send it.
Queries that work at 100 rows and not at 100,000
Missing indexes, N+1 queries in loops, unbounded selects with no pagination.
No error handling, no logging
When something fails in production you get a white screen and no signal something broke.
Zero tests
Which means every subsequent change is a gamble.
Uncontrolled AI costs
No rate limiting, no token caps, no retry ceiling. One loop bug and the bill is four figures.
How the rescue works
Review
We go through the codebase and give you a written assessment: what's actually dangerous, what's merely untidy, and what it would take to fix each one. This is the free project review, and it's genuinely useful even if you go no further with us.
Triage
We agree what gets fixed and in what order. Security holes and data-loss risks first, always. Performance and maintainability after.
Harden
We do the work. Auth, data access, validation, error handling, tests around the paths that matter, deployment and monitoring.
Hand over
You get documentation, a working CI pipeline, and a codebase your next developer can pick up. We're not trying to make you dependent on us.
What we don't do
We don't tell you to throw it away and start again. The AI-generated version got you to a working product and real feedback, which is worth more than a perfect greenfield build nobody's used. The code underneath is usually fine — it's the things around the edges that need doing properly.
We also won't take on a rescue we don't think is worth doing. If your app genuinely does need rebuilding, we'll say so in the review rather than bill you for hardening something that shouldn't survive.
Built with a specific tool?
Each of these has its own failure patterns.