AI App Builder Audits · AI Development Series
You built it with AI. We check what is underneath.
Lovable, Replit, Emergent, UI Bakery and the rest will get you something that works. Before real customers and real data go through it, it is worth having someone read the code properly.
We do not audit the tool. We audit what it produces.
There is a version of this page where we claim to be experts in twenty different AI app builders. It would not be true, and you would find out eventually. Here is the actual position.
None of these tools invent new technology
Whatever the marketing says, these platforms assemble the same components everyone else uses. Lovable hands you a React and TypeScript application on a PostgreSQL database. Emergent hands you React with a Python API and MongoDB behind it. Replit picks a stack per project and gives you Node or Python with Postgres. Underneath the branding it is all conventional technology.
That is the whole basis of this service. We have been building and repairing software on exactly those foundations since 2008. Reading a database schema and telling you it will not survive contact with your business is the same skill regardless of what typed it.
The problem is never the code you can see
These tools are good at producing something that works when you try it. What they cannot do is know things nobody told them: which users must never see each other's records, which figures have to reconcile at year end, what happens when two people press save at the same moment, which of your rules is a preference and which is a legal obligation.
So the application looks right, behaves right when you test it, and contains assumptions that were never checked against your business. Those assumptions are what an audit surfaces.
You have not done anything wrong
Nobody who brings us an AI-built application has made a mistake by building it. They had an idea, they got it working, and it did its job — which is considerably more than most people manage. Using these tools to find out whether something is worth building is a sensible use of them.
The moment to get it checked is when it stops being an experiment: when it holds other people's data, takes money, or the business would notice if it stopped. That transition usually happens without anyone deciding it has.
What we look for, tool by tool
Each platform produces a different stack, so each one fails in its own characteristic way. These pages set out what we consistently find in applications built with each.
Full-stack app generators
These hand you real, exportable code. The audit is ordinary engineering review — and entirely possible, because nothing is hidden.
Mobile app builders
Mobile changes the threat model: your app ships to the user's device, where anyone can pull it apart and read what is inside.
No-code platforms
The application lives on the platform. There is usually no code to export, so the audit looks at the data model, the permission rules and your exit path.
Internal tool builders
These sit on a database you already own. The exposure is the query layer, the permission model and what the tool is allowed to do to live data.
Backends and data platforms
The layer underneath everything else. If the API or the data model is wrong here, no amount of front-end work fixes it.
Whatever built it, we check the same four things
The tool determines where the problems tend to hide. It does not change what needs checking.
Security and access control
Whether your users can reach each other's data.
Database structure
Whether the data model fits your business or just the screens.
Whether it will scale
What happens at a thousand users rather than ten.
Whether it can be maintained
Whether anyone can safely change it in a year.
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Questions about AI app audits
No, and we would rather be straight about that. We build software with Claude Code and Cursor, with senior developers designing the system and reviewing every change. What makes us useful is that these tools produce ordinary technology underneath: React, TypeScript, Python, Node, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. We audit the output, not the tool, and the output is what we have been building and fixing for years.
Yes. New AI app builders appear constantly and we are not going to pretend to have a page for all of them. What matters is what your application is made of rather than which product generated it. If you can give us the code, or access to the platform's configuration and database, we can audit it. Tell us what you used and we will confirm before you commit to anything.
£495, fixed. You get a written report within five working days of us having access to the code, covering security and access control, database structure, whether the application will scale, and whether it can be maintained. If you go on to have us fix or rebuild the application, the £495 comes off the cost in full.
Usually not, and we have no incentive to. Plenty of AI-generated applications have a reasonable foundation and a handful of specific problems, and fixing those is cheaper than rebuilding. Where we do recommend starting again it is normally because the database design cannot support what the business actually needs, and we will show you why rather than asking you to take it on trust. The report says what we found, including the parts that are fine.
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Find out what you are sitting on
The AI Code Audit is £495, fixed.
Tell us which tool you built with, roughly what the application does, and how many people use it. If an audit is not the right thing for you, we will say so rather than selling you one.
What the report covers:
- Security and access control
- Database structure and whether it fits the business
- Whether it will hold up as usage grows
- Whether it can be maintained and changed safely
We reply within one working day.
