Vibe Code Rescue

Vibe Coding Rescue for an AI-built app that needs repair.

Your AI-built app works in a demo, but real users are finding problems. We assess the code, prioritize security and data risks, and repair the agreed issues with tests your team can rerun. The assessment determines what to keep and what needs changing.

Review production readiness → See case studies →

Cancel any week. Last week refunded if we didn’t blow you away. No hours tracked.

100+ products shipped
10+ years experience
No-Bullshit Guarantee

CHOOSE THIS WHEN

Choose Vibe Coding Rescue when an AI-generated prototype needs a one-time audit and targeted hardening before real users, due diligence, or production.

BEST FOR

A Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, or Claude Code build with unknown security and reliability gaps.
A team that needs an evidence-based keep, harden, or rebuild decision.

NOT BEST FOR

Ongoing independent release testing after the product is stable.
A vendor handover that needs access recovery and continued maintenance.

What breaks in vibe-coded apps

45%

of tests introduced security flaws in Veracode’s 2025 study (Veracode, 2025)

The demo works. That is the trap. Apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, or Claude Code look finished and fail exactly where a demo never looks: authorization, data access, payments, and the unhappy paths nobody prompted for. The fixes are known and boring, which is the good news:

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Broken access control. The user-A-reads-user-B’s-data bug: row-level security left off, missing authorization checks, client-side auth anyone can skip.
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Secrets in the open. API keys committed to the repo, staging and production sharing one database, logs leaking tokens and personal data.
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Payments that lie. Webhook handling, refund flows, and subscription state that look right in a demo and quietly drop money in production.

Two ways in

Vibe Code Audit

A fixed-scope read of the code the model wrote and you may never have. We map the architecture, score every finding by severity, and hand back a prioritized list of what to fix and in what order. Usually a few days, and it stands on its own if you want to fix things yourself.

Full Rescue

We take the findings and fix them: close the security and data holes, repair payments and the unhappy paths, add a regression suite, and wire up CI and monitoring. You get back a version that is safe for real users, not a PDF of complaints.

How a rescue runs

Every engagement runs the same disciplined path, so nothing ships by accident and nothing critical gets skipped.

Audit

We read the codebase, map the architecture, and scan for the security, data, and scaling gaps AI tools reliably leave behind.

Triage

Findings ranked by severity, plus an honest keep-vs-rebuild call on the generated code, not a reflex to throw it away.

Harden

Close broken access control and leaked secrets, fix payments and the unhappy paths, and make production and staging actually separate.

Test

A regression suite, so the next AI edit does not silently break what already works.

Ship

CI, observability, and rollbacks, so you see failures early and can undo a bad deploy in seconds.

Handover

Runbooks and a walkthrough. You own and run it; maintenance is optional, not baked in.

Built into every rescue

Honest keep-vs-rebuild call

We do not rewrite for the sake of it. If the generated code is structurally sound, we harden it and move on. If a module is beyond saving, we say so and scope the smallest rebuild that fixes it, not a teardown that bills for months.

Handover, not lock-in

Every rescue ends with docs, tests, and a walkthrough so your team can run and extend it. Ongoing maintenance is an option, never a dependency we quietly build in.

What a rescue covers

The full production-readiness pass, the same lens we apply to anything built with vibe coding.

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Authorization on every endpoint. The class of bug demos never surface, checked route by route.
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Input validation and unhappy paths. The cases the prompt never asked for, closed before a user finds them.
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Secrets and environments. Keys out of the repo, staging and production actually separated.
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Error handling that fails closed. No stack traces leaked to users, no silent swallowing of failures.
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Observability and rollbacks. You see failures when they happen and can undo a bad deploy.
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A regression suite. So the next AI edit does not silently break what already works.

Tools we rescue from

Built with one of these? We have read its output before and know how it cuts corners.

How we run a rescue

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Fixed scope, signed. We work to a written statement of work and are legally bound to deliver it. No open-ended hourly meter, no scope that drifts once the invoices start.
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Keep what works. AI-generated code is not automatically garbage. We harden the parts that are sound and only replace what genuinely has to go, so you pay for fixes, not ego rewrites.
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Senior engineers only. The people reading your code have shipped production systems for years and know exactly how AI tools cut corners. No juniors learning on your codebase.
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You own it at the end. Documentation, a regression suite, and a walkthrough. The goal is that you run the product without us on the phone forever.

Rebuild from scratch, or rescue what you have?

Usually rescue.

A full rebuild costs months you may not have. Most vibe-coded apps need hardening, not a teardown.

Talk to an expert

Get in touch →

Your prototype rescue plan

Example outputs for a rescue assessment. We inspect the existing app before agreeing which repairs to build.

Keep, harden or rebuild

Review the critical user paths, architecture, permissions and dependencies. Identify reusable code and release blockers.

Repairs in delivery order

Reproducible findings ranked by user impact, with effort, dependencies and acceptance checks for each repair.

Evidence for the next release

Retest agreed fixes and critical flows. Hand over the results, remaining risks and rollback steps.

Download the sample rescue findings and release decision (Markdown)

// proof

Proof, not promises

Twinsoft AI reached enterprise pilot readiness in two weeks after we rebuilt its prototype foundations. Soundromeda hardened a vibe-coded game through risk-based QA. PromptID kept its production quality bar by cutting scope when the timeline shrank. Three concrete ways to get a pressured product ready to ship.

2 weeks To Sellable MVP

Took a vibe-coded prototype to enterprise pilot-ready, no shortcuts.

Python Flask LLMs

Production Vibe-Coded → Hardened

QA-led hardening took a vibe-coded game prototype to a state grant committees backed.

6 weeks 0 to Production

AI-native assessment platform, 0→production in 6 weeks under compressed market pressure.

NestJS Next.js LangChain

These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 100+ products since 2018.

What clients say

Google

Built multiple venture-backed startups with Wavect over 4 years. World class team. They’re great thought partners while in discovery, reliable and predictable engineers while in dev, and just generally great guys to work with. Highly highly recommend you work with this team for your next project.

Joseph Miller

Original

Trustpilot

Delivered all work on time, even under tight deadlines. The perfect balance between professional standards and a collaborative working relationship.

MyDevConnect Team

Original

Getting to know Kevin was very exciting! He is burning for his topics and is a guy who is walking the extra mile. His thoughts and passioned approach for the work is absolutely amazing. He has a holistic view and is not stuck in tech topics at all. His huge strength is that he knows the customer’s requirements and understands them without needing to ask what they want.

Also his will to constantly get to know the latest knowledge is felt in the daily work. Since the web3 area is a highly dynamic one this is a necessity and Kevin is coping with it like a charm.

Erhard Dinhobl AI System Engineer

Original

Independently rated 5.0/5 on Clutch Read the reviews

Clutch Top Software Testing Company in Austria 2026 award for Wavect

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Clutch Top Software Developers in Austria 2026 award for Wavect

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A budget for bugs. A price for accepted results.

For a working app, including a vibe-coded one: choose a bounded functional test pass, optional accepted findings and separately approved repairs. Set the spending limit before work starts.

Your ceiling comes first

Coverage + up to 5 accepted findings: at most €1,500. Repairs need a separately approved quote within your total cap. Unused authorization is not invoiced.

Test the agreed scope
€750
One coverage pass across up to 12 agreed scenarios and 3 journeys. You receive the results even when no bug is found.
Per accepted finding
€150
One material, reproducible defect. Same root cause or same corrective change: one fee. Severity changes priority, never this price.
Per accepted repair
Small
€600
Standard
€1,200
Eligible small repair: €600. Standard repair: €1,200. An already paid €150 finding fee is credited toward that repair.
Already know the bug? For a bug you can reproduce, request a repair-only quote. No finding fee; a coverage pass is needed only if separately agreed.

Net prices; applicable tax is additional. One-off scope with its own correction/refund terms; an alternative to weekly QA for the same work.

Agree the scope and spending cap See the full bug-based QA terms

FAQs

Honest answers about fixing vibe-coded and AI-generated apps

How does the weekly cancellation actually work?

End any week, with one message. No notice period, no exit interview, no fine print. We invoice weekly, so the most you’re ever committed to is the current week.

What if I’m not blown away by the work?

It’s in your contract: tell us, and we refund that week. No questions, no invoices to dispute, no calls to escalate. The only rule: refunds apply to the most recent week.

Why don’t you track hours?

Because hours are the wrong metric. If we optimize for hours billed, we do not optimize for your outcome. The deal is simpler: every week has a defined result, and we earn the next week by delivering it. You pay for progress against that result, not for a timesheet.

What does 'expectations detached from reality' mean?

We work with operators, not lottery winners. If a request would require breaking physics, the law, or a third party’s systems, we say so, and if we can’t align, we walk. The guarantee is mutual: you can fire us any week; we can also fire ourselves.

How do I fix a vibe-coded app?

Start with a structured audit of the vibe-coded code. You receive findings ranked by severity and a keep, harden or rebuild recommendation. With the repair scope agreed, we implement the fixes in a branch with tests and verify the result. The full checklist is in the vibe-coded software audit and our production-readiness checklist.

Is code from Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor production-ready?

Usually not without work. In Veracode’s 2025 study, AI-generated code introduced security flaws in 45% of the tests. That makes independent review a practical release step. We check authorization, secrets, payments and failure paths before your prototype reaches production. See taking a Lovable or Cursor prototype to production.

Should I rescue my AI-built MVP or rebuild it from scratch?

Usually rescue. A full rebuild costs months and most vibe-coded apps do not need one; the code is often structurally fine and just missing the production layer. We make an honest keep-vs-rebuild call as part of the audit. We walk through the trade-off in ship as-is vs harden first.

What does a vibe code rescue cost?

It is fixed-scope. An audit is typically a few days at a fixed fee; a full rescue is scoped after the audit once we know exactly what has to be fixed. You get a signed statement of work with a fixed price before we start, so there is no open-ended hourly meter. See what a vibe-coded software audit costs.

How long does a vibe code rescue take?

An audit is usually a few days. A full rescue runs a few weeks depending on how much has to be hardened or rebuilt, and we agree the scope and timeline in writing up front. Critical security fixes ship first, so the riskiest holes close early rather than at the end.

What are the most common problems you find in vibe-coded apps?

Broken access control (the user-A-reads-user-B’s-data bug), secrets committed to the repo, staging and production sharing one database, and payment logic that looks right but drops money. We check authorization, input validation, secrets, error handling, and add a regression suite. Full detail in QA for AI-generated code.

Do you work with Replit, v0, and Claude Code output too?

Yes. We rescue apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, v0, Windsurf, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and similar builders, on stacks like Supabase, Firebase, Next.js, and Vercel. If you inherited a codebase and are not sure what built it, we can tell you from the code. Buying one? See due diligence on a Lovable, Bolt, or Replit app.

Optional Fast Lane

Need it sooner?

More agreed work in the same week, or the same scope sooner, with extra reserved capacity and unchanged quality checks. Miss the booked earlier date and 100% of the Fast Lane surcharge comes back.

Optional per milestone, quoted after a readiness check.

Ask about Fast Lane How Fast Lane works

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