AI App Rescue & Vibe Code Fixes

A vibe-coded app is one built mainly by prompting an AI tool such as Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, v0, Replit or Claude Code, rather than by hand-writing the code. They are fast to build and often genuinely useful. The trouble starts when a demo needs to become a product: security, data integrity, performance and maintainability were never part of the prompts.

Usually not. Most AI-built apps have a salvageable core. Our audit tells you honestly which parts to keep, which to fix and which, occasionally, to rebuild. A full rewrite is the exception, and we will say so up front if it is the right call.

The stacks AI tools generate most: Next.js and React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Supabase and Firebase, PostgreSQL and Stripe, deployed on Vercel or AWS. If your app is built on something else, ask. We will tell you quickly whether we are the right fit.

The rescue audit is a fixed price agreed before we start. The fix phase is quoted from the audit findings, so you are never paying open-ended hours on a problem nobody has scoped. Send us a brief through the proposal form and we will reply with a written scope within three business days.

Yes. We are happy to sign an NDA before we look at anything, we work in your repositories and cloud accounts wherever possible, and we remove our own access when the engagement ends.

Yes, that is the goal. We leave you with tests, CI checks and conventions so the next AI-generated change is caught if it breaks something. Many clients keep prompting features themselves and bring us in for reviews and the hard parts.

Yes, and this is the most common call we get. Lovable and Replit projects usually break in the same places: a Supabase migration that half-applied, an environment variable missing in production, an edge function that times out, or a change the AI made to a file it should not have touched. We find the cause rather than prompting around it, fix it, and add the tests that stop it recurring.

Yes. That warning means any table it names can be read or written by anyone who has your public API key, which is every visitor to your app. It is the single most common security problem in Lovable and Bolt projects. We enable RLS, write the policies your app actually needs, and test them with a second account before anything else.

Yes. We export the code into a repository you own, set up a reproducible build, move secrets into proper environment configuration, and deploy to Vercel or AWS with CI/CD. The database usually stays on Supabase or moves to Postgres on AWS, depending on what you need for cost, residency and scale.

We are based in Pretoria, South Africa, and work with clients in the UK, the US, Australia and across Africa. Our timezone (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps the full European working day and the US East Coast morning.