Auth and secrets
Keys in the frontend, committed .env files, default admin, and session handling that lets anyone become someone else.
Vibe coding audit
Looks finished. Still not production-ready
You shipped an AI-generated app with Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, or Copilot. Looks done is not live. We audit the repo, security, privacy, and debt for $200 + GST, then quote the rescue. Melbourne-based. Australia-wide and international.
This is not theoretical
Unpatched admin tools take real data
Mathspace is an education product, not a weekend demo. Attackers used administrator access on unpatched internal reporting software. Vibe-coded apps fail the same way: open admin, skipped patches, and no one owning the stack.
A weekend demo is not a product. Real users, real cards, real privacy law.
Demo versus live
What the prompt shipped is not what go-live needs
The interface can look finished in a weekend. Production-ready means strangers can use it without leaking keys, data, or card details.
What the prompt shipped
- A login screen that works on your laptop
- Happy-path checkout or sign-up
- A deploy to Vercel, Firebase, Lovable, or Bolt
- Features the last prompt asked for
What production needs
- Auth that actually authorises
- Secrets out of the browser and the repo
- Backups that restore, and logs you would see
- A privacy map for the people who signed up
The standard
What $200 buys
Same seven surfaces every time. Ranked written report. Rescue is quoted after. If eligibility fails, Discovery produces a separate quote.
Standard Vibe Coding Audit
$200 + GST
One AI-generated app. Ranked written report.
Typical window: one to two weeks after access
Request a Discovery SessionPrice applies when
- One AI-generated or vibe-coded web or mobile app (one Git repo, or one hosted app plus exportable source).
- Read-only access to source, hosting, identity, and data stores within five business days of booking.
- You can say who the users are and what personal information the app collects.
- Remote review. Melbourne studio, Australia-wide and international.
Included at $200 + GST
Access control and injection
Who can read or write whose data. Open storage buckets, and OWASP-class injection or XSS paths that AI scaffolding often skips.
Privacy, cookies, and residency
What personal information you collect, where it is stored, and whether GDPR, UK GDPR, or Australian APPs are on the radar. We flag a Privacy Impact Assessment if the project needs one. We do not write the PIA.
Payments and billing
Stripe or similar wired through client-side secrets, webhooks that trust any payload, or receipts that leak other customers. Card data must never touch your server. Reviewed when payments exist or are about to.
Technical debt and tests
Generated files nobody owns, duplicated logic, no tests, and a stack that cannot be changed without asking the model again. We map what is salvageable versus what should be rebuilt.
Bugs and reliability
Race conditions, broken error paths, missing rate limits, and crashes that only appear with real traffic. Production-ready means it survives more than a demo.
Hosting, backups, and observability
Who owns the Vercel, Firebase, or Supabase project. Whether backups restore. Whether you would even know if the app went down or leaked data.
- Ranked plain-English findings report, ordered by real risk, with a recommended fix for each item.
- Salvage versus rewrite recommendation.
- Itemised quote to harden or rewrite priority items. You approve before any code change.
Not included at $200 + GST
Harden, patch, or rewrite
Follow-on work, quoted from the report. You approve each item before we change production.
Privacy Impact Assessment
A full PIA is a separate scoped engagement. The audit flags when that is the honest next step.
Penetration test
This is a production-readiness audit of configuration, code, privacy flows, and debt. A pentest is a different engagement, useful only once the basics are in place.
Certificate or legal advice
We do not certify the app, stamp compliance, or give legal advice.
Org-wide cyber audit
Email, domain DNS, and devices sit on the Cyber Security Audit Melbourne page, from $1,300 + GST.
A new product from a pitch
We audit what is running. We do not vibe-code a product from a one-line idea.
Second and subsequent apps
The standard price is one app. Extra apps are quoted separately.
The seven surfaces
Do not go live until these are checked
The $200 standard audit inspects every surface below. Ranked findings, plain English, and a quote to harden or rewrite what is not safe to run with real users.
Auth and secrets
Keys in the frontend, committed .env, sessions anyone can steal.
Access control and injection
One user reading another user's records or files.
Privacy, cookies, and residency
What you collect, where it lives, which privacy regime applies.
Payments and billing
Client-side Stripe secrets, webhooks that trust any payload.
Technical debt and tests
Unowned generated files, no tests, salvage versus rebuild.
Bugs and reliability
Race conditions, missing rate limits, crashes under real traffic.
Hosting, backups, and observability
Who owns hosting, whether backups restore, whether you would know.
Fit
Who this is for
Founders who vibe-coded an app and now have users
You built with Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Copilot, or ChatGPT and people are signing up. You cannot answer where data lives, who can see it, or what happens if the next prompt breaks production.
Teams about to take payments or store personal data
Stripe is wired, or about to be. Customer emails, files, or health-adjacent records sit in a database you did not design. Privacy rules follow your users, not your postcode.
IT teams inheriting a vibe-coded app
A founder shipped it. You now own hosting, backups, and the next patch advisory. We audit the repo so your preventative programme covers the product, not only the mailbox. We train. We do not run live incident response.
Not a fit for idea-only prompts with no access
If you will not share the repo, hosting, and admin accounts, we cannot audit what is running. Discovery is free. The $200 audit needs the eligibility above. We do not vibe-code a new product from a one-line pitch.
How it works
Audit, then quote, then optional rescue
Four stages. The $200 fee covers discovery through the ranked report. Harden or rewrite is approved item by item.
Discovery
A free Discovery Session to confirm eligibility, the stack, who uses it, and what production-ready means for you. If the $200 standard applies, that is the quote.
Repo and infra review
Read-only access to source, hosting, identity, and data stores. We inspect all seven surfaces in the contract.
Ranked report
Plain-English findings ordered by risk, with recommended fixes and an itemised quote to harden, patch, or rewrite.
Harden or rewrite
Optional follow-on, paid separately. You approve each item: security fixes, privacy controls, tests, observability, and the rebuilds that make the product actually production-ready.
Outcomes
What you walk away with
Ranked findings, not a scare PDF
Every issue is explained in plain English, ordered by real risk, with a recommended fix you can approve item by item.
Audit then rescue, same studio
Most clients ask us to harden or rewrite the priority items as fixed-price follow-on work. You approve each item before we start.
Privacy and security in one pass
Secrets in repos, open admin, missing access control, and personal-information flows are reviewed together so you do not pay twice for the same surface.
Book the $200 audit before you go live
Request a Discovery Session. The standard vibe coding audit is $200 + GST for one eligible app. Rescue work is quoted from the report, and you approve it before any code changes.
Request a Discovery SessionProof
Work that backs the pitch
Real builds, not stock screenshots. See how the craft lands for clients like you.
Case study
Luxora Hair Ecommerce App
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One Line Loop Journaling App
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Case study
AutoSizer Marketplace Resizer
Case study: AutoSizer, a browser-first image resizer for marketplaces.
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Straight answers
What is a vibe coding audit?
A production-readiness review of an AI-generated or vibe-coded app. We inspect the repo, hosting, security, privacy, technical debt, and bugs, then rank what must change before real users, payments, or regulators become a problem. It is not a certificate and it is not legal advice. The standard audit is $200 + GST for one eligible app.
How much does a vibe coding audit cost?
The Standard Vibe Coding Audit is $200 + GST for one eligible AI-generated app when you provide read-only repo and hosting access. That fee is the ranked written report and an itemised rescue quote. Harden, rewrite, a Privacy Impact Assessment, and extra apps are quoted separately. If eligibility fails, Discovery produces a separate quote. We do not shrink the seven-surface list to hit the price.
What is included in the $200 audit?
Inspection of all seven surfaces: auth and secrets; access control and injection; privacy, cookies, and residency; payments and billing; technical debt and tests; bugs and reliability; hosting, backups, and observability. You get a ranked plain-English report, a salvage versus rewrite call, and an itemised quote to fix priority items. Discovery is free. Typical window is one to two weeks after access.
Is my Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor app production-ready?
Usually not on day one. Tools like Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Copilot, and Cursor are strong at shipping a demo. Production-ready means auth, access control, secrets, privacy, backups, and a codebase a human can maintain. That is the gap we audit.
Do GDPR or Australian privacy rules apply if I built this from my laptop?
Privacy law follows the people whose data you collect, not where you wrote the prompts. EU users can trigger GDPR. Australian users can trigger the Privacy Act and APPs. UK users can trigger UK GDPR. We map what you collect and flag when a Privacy Impact Assessment is the next step. We do not certify you as compliant.
Do you rewrite the app or patch what I have?
Whichever is cheaper and safer. Salvageable code gets hardened. Generated spaghetti that cannot be tested or secured gets a scoped rewrite. You see the recommendation and the quote before we change anything. That rescue work is not included in the $200 audit.
How long does a vibe coding audit take?
Most focused reviews of a single web or mobile app complete within one to two weeks after Discovery, depending on repo access and how quickly you answer questions about users and data.
Do I also need a Privacy Impact Assessment?
If the app collects personal information, uses AI on customer data, or has EU, UK, or Australian users, a threshold PIA is often the honest next step. The vibe coding audit flags that. A full PIA is a separate scoped engagement on our Privacy Impact Assessment Australia page.
Is this a penetration test?
No. It is a practical production-readiness audit: configuration, code, privacy flows, and debt. Full penetration testing is a different engagement and only useful once the basics are in place.
What if I only have a hosted preview and no Git repo?
We can still review the live app, hosting, and accounts, but that is outside the $200 standard. A repo makes the audit faster and the rescue cheaper. If the source only lives in a chat history, we will say so in Discovery and quote accordingly.
Do you only work with Melbourne clients?
No. We are Melbourne-based and deliver Australia-wide and internationally. Same process, same packages, remote by default. We meet in person across Melbourne when it helps.
Official guidance
Authoritative sources
OAIC privacy guidance for organisationsAustralian Privacy Principles and organisational privacy guidance. Use this when your users are in Australia.EU General Data Protection RegulationOfficial GDPR text. Privacy obligations can apply when you offer services to people in the EU, wherever you built the app.OWASP Top 10The most common web application security risks. Vibe-coded apps often skip these controls because the demo still looks finished.ACSC small business cyber securityPractical guidance for Australian SMBs on reducing cyber risk once a product is running with real accounts.
Next step
Make the app you shipped actually production-ready.
Request a Discovery Session. The standard vibe coding audit is $200 + GST for one eligible app. Rescue work is quoted from the report, and you approve it before any code changes.