Do I need a production-readiness audit for my AI-built app?

If this is a prototype, an internal tool, or something a handful of colleagues use, the platform is better value than we are. Ship it there and spend nothing on this. Come back when it holds real customer data, takes payments, or someone outside your company depends on it.

Will you rewrite my whole app?

Usually not. Most apps get hardened in place — the code you have keeps working and we fix what is unsafe about it. We’ll only propose a rewrite when the foundation cannot hold the fix, and we tell you that before you spend money on it.

Do I lose access to Lovable, Replit, Bolt or Base44 if I work with you?

No. You keep building on Lovable, Replit, Bolt or Base44 exactly as before. The Care Plan exists partly to review what the agent writes after we leave. Platform Graduation is a separate product you choose deliberately, not something that happens to you.

What if the audit finds nothing?

Then you get a short report saying so, and you can show it to whoever asked the question. That hasn’t happened yet; software is never perfect.

For apps built on Lovable, Replit, Bolt.new, and Base44

Your app works. Now it has to survive real customers.

AI Builders get you 70% of the way there in a weekend. Aspen handles the final stretch — establishing protections for you and your customers’ data, fixing the rough edges, and making sure your software keeps working as more people use it.

Boost Your App What does the boost entail?

What the last 30% actually contains

The app runs, so nothing looks broken. What's missing is invisible from the browser, and it's exactly the kind of thing that shows up after a customer signs up, not before.

Anyone logged in can see anyone’s data
A customer could pull up someone else’s account by changing one number in the browser.
Customer records aren’t actually kept separate
One bad query could expose every customer’s data at once, not just one person’s.
Passwords and keys are sitting out in the open
Anyone who loads your site can see your database password if they know where to look.
The login screen isn’t actually a lock
Someone can skip the sign-in page entirely and talk to your app directly.
Backups exist, but nobody’s tried restoring one
If something breaks, you may learn too late that your safety net doesn’t work.
Some building blocks have known holes
Parts of your app depend on code with security issues nobody’s watching for.

This is not hypothetical

Lovable

CVE-2025-48757 — NVD rates it 9.3

A row-level-security flaw exposed data in generated apps. Of 1,645 apps scanned, 170 were exposed.

NVD records this as disputed — Lovable’s stated grounds are that each customer is responsible for protecting their own app’s data.

Replit

Replit says app security is your job

Replit’s own security checklist tells builders to “always verify permissions before performing actions.” The platform secures the platform; authorization inside your app is yours.

Base44

Authentication bypass

Auth-bypass flaws allowed access to private application data and account takeover.

Across all AI codegen

~45% failed OWASP checks

Veracode tested AI-generated code samples against OWASP criteria. Roughly 45% did not pass.

Fixed scope, fixed price

Our products are designed to help you move your application from the prototype stage to a full, production app. Start wherever best fits your needs, and we’ll work to accommodate your application’s particularities.

Start here

Know Your App

Security & Production-Readiness Audit

$499fixed price · 1 week

Before you invite real customers in, we take a close look at your app and identify the issues most likely to cause trouble.

Book an Audit

What it covers

Can the right people access the right parts of the app—and nobody else?
Is customer information kept private and separated correctly?
Are passwords, payment keys, and other sensitive information protected?
Could someone reach data or features they shouldn’t be able to?
What could break, expose customer information, or become costly as you grow?
You’ll receive a clear, prioritized list of what we found, why it matters, and what to fix first. Every review uncovers areas of improvement.

Scale Your App

Production Hardening Sprint

$7,500 – $15,000

fixed price · 2–3 weeks

We fix what the audit found and leave behind the tests and pipelines that keep it fixed.

Remediation of audit findings
Test coverage over the paths that matter
CI/CD pipeline
Monitoring and alerting
Targeted refactor of key features

Own Your App

Platform Graduation

$10,000 – $25,000

fixed price up front · timeline scoped per app

You leave the platform with your code and data, running on infrastructure you own.

Code and database custody transferred to you
Platform auth replaced with a portable equivalent
Containerized deployment
Monitoring on your own infrastructure

Care Plan

$1,500 – $5,000

per month · month to month

Ongoing ownership once you are live, including review of whatever the agent wrote this week.

Monitoring and incident response
Dependency updates
Feature work
Review of agent-generated changes before they ship

What clients say

“I can’t tell you how helpful Aspen has been in making my app optimally functional. I’m now able to work through a staging environment to test all of my changes before I push them out into the real world.”

Richard AbramsFounder, FitTrack PERead the case study

Start the Conversation

Get in touch for a free consultation. We’ll help you understand your current position and whether an audit can help you make the steps you want to take.

When will you hear back?: Same business day, Mountain Time. From Anthony or Steven, not an inbox robot.

About Us

Not a queue, not a subcontractor, not an account manager who hands you off. The person who audits your app is the person who wrote this page. Both of us have histories you can check before you send an email.

Anthony Ranallo

Principal Consultant

Product strategy at Janiis.
Helped lead MasterControl MX, an enterprise platform for regulated manufacturers maintaining auditable compliance records.
Principal product lead on Western Governors University’s next-generation learning platform.

Focus. Product strategy, regulated environments, scoping work that ships.

Steven Nagie

Technology Lead

As a principal engineer, pioneered AI adoption across an engineering org and built a safe AI-driven SDLC.
Led a full architectural overhaul of the highest-traffic, revenue-driving products at a billion-dollar company.
Systems I built have moved tens of millions of dollars and scaled to millions of monthly users.

Focus. Secure multi-tenant applications, cost-efficient infrastructure, scalable data modeling.

Before you book anything

Do I need a production-readiness audit for my AI-built app?: If this is a prototype, an internal tool, or something a handful of colleagues use, the platform is better value than we are. Ship it there and spend nothing on this. Come back when it holds real customer data, takes payments, or someone outside your company depends on it.
Will you rewrite my whole app?: Usually not. Most apps get hardened in place — the code you have keeps working and we fix what is unsafe about it. We’ll only propose a rewrite when the foundation cannot hold the fix, and we tell you that before you spend money on it.
Do I lose access to Lovable, Replit, Bolt or Base44 if I work with you?: No. You keep building on Lovable, Replit, Bolt or Base44 exactly as before. The Care Plan exists partly to review what the agent writes after we leave. Platform Graduation is a separate product you choose deliberately, not something that happens to you.
What if the audit finds nothing?: Then you get a short report saying so, and you can show it to whoever asked the question. That hasn’t happened yet; software is never perfect.