Your AI-Built App Got You Here. It Won't Get You There.

Vibe coding is a superpower for validating an idea, and a liability the moment you have paying customers. If your codebase came mostly from prompts and you're now seeing the cracks, you don't need a rebuild from scratch. You need a senior engineer who knows exactly how AI-generated code fails, and how to fix it without stopping your roadmap.

Sound Familiar?

• Features break when you add new ones, and nobody can explain why
• A security-conscious customer or investor asked questions you couldn't answer
• Your cloud or API bill is growing faster than your revenue
• The AI tool that built v1 can no longer navigate its own codebase
• Technical due diligence is coming and you know what they'll find

The Honest Diagnosis

AI coding tools are phenomenal at producing code that works and mediocre at producing code that lasts. Studies consistently find AI-generated codebases carry significantly more security vulnerabilities than human-written ones: hardcoded secrets, injection flaws, privilege-escalation paths. On top of that comes the architectural debt no scanner catches: no separation of concerns, duplicated logic, zero test coverage, and infrastructure choices made by autocomplete.

None of this means your product is doomed. It means v1 did its job (proving demand) and now needs an engineer, not more prompts.

The Rescue Process

1. Rescue Audit (1-2 weeks, fixed price). Full codebase, infrastructure, and security review. You get a written report: what's dangerous, what's expensive, what's fine, and a prioritized fix plan with effort estimates. Yours to keep, whoever does the work.

2. Hardening Sprint (2-6 weeks). I fix the critical path myself: security holes closed, secrets management, authentication done right, test coverage on the code that touches money and data, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost controls.

3. Re-Architecture (where needed). If parts of the codebase can't be saved, I restructure incrementally. Strangler-pattern migration, not a big-bang rewrite, so you keep shipping features throughout.

4. Ongoing Partnership (optional). Many rescue clients keep me on as fractional CTO afterward, so v2 decisions get made with senior judgment from day one.

Rescued by Someone Who Ships AI Daily

I'm not anti-AI-coding. I use these tools every day across my own products. That's the point: I know precisely where they excel and where they quietly plant landmines. 15+ years of senior engineering, founder of an AI SaaS platform used in 15+ countries, and hands-on across the exact stacks vibe-coded apps are usually built on (Node/TypeScript, React/Next, Python, Firebase, Supabase, GCP).

FAQ

Do I need a full rewrite? Almost never. Most AI-generated codebases are 60-70% salvageable. The audit tells you exactly which parts.

Can you work with the tool that built it (Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit)? Yes. Often the right move is keeping AI-assisted velocity while adding the engineering discipline around it (reviews, tests, guardrails) rather than abandoning the workflow.

How much does the audit cost? Fixed price, quoted after a 30-minute call based on codebase size. You'll know the number before we start.

Will you sign an NDA? Yes, standard practice.

What if we're mid-crisis (outage, breach, angry customer)? Tell me on the call. Stabilization comes first; the audit report comes second.