Auth that leaks
Sign-in works in the demo, but row-level security was never turned on and permission checks run in the browser. Anyone curious can read your whole database.
Vibe coding rescue
You built the app. We get it live.
Hephon takes vibe-coded apps from Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, and v0 to production. We audit every line the AI wrote, close the security holes, finish the features that stalled, and launch it on your own domain with monitoring and backups. Senior engineers, one fixed price, and most rescues take two to four weeks.
Codebase audit212 files read
criticalService key shipped in the client bundlesrc/lib/db.ts
criticalRow-level security disabled on 3 tablesusers · orders · messages
highPermission checks run in the browser onlysrc/routes/admin.tsx
highNo rate limit on public endpoints/api/generate
mediumStripe webhooks never handledpayments
Verdict: 71% of the code is worth keeping.1 fixed price, 48h
Businesses we’ve worked with
Senior engineers, real review
People who ship production systems for a living read every line the AI generated. We keep what works and fix what would have burned you.
Audit first, price second
Within 48 hours of getting repo access you have a written report: what is solid, what is dangerous, what is missing, and one fixed number to finish it.
You keep everything
Your repo, your accounts, your API keys, your customers. We work inside your setup and hand over documented. No lock-in, no hostage code.
Sound familiar?
Where AI-built apps get stuck.
The tools are genuinely good at the first 80%. These are the walls we see in almost every codebase that reaches us, whatever it was built with.
Secrets in the bundle
API keys pasted where the AI put them: the frontend. They ship to every visitor, and one lifted key becomes someone else running up your bill.
Payments half-wired
Stripe works in test mode. Webhooks, failed cards, refunds, and taxes were never handled, and switching to live mode is the part nobody dares to prompt.
Breaks under real users
No error handling, no loading states, no retries. The first day of concurrent users surfaces everything the happy-path demo never touched.
Stuck on localhost
It runs on your machine or inside the tool preview. Domains, SSL, environment variables, staging, and a deploy pipeline never got sorted.
The AI hit its ceiling
The codebase outgrew the tool’s context. Every new prompt fixes one thing and quietly breaks two others, and you can no longer tell which.
How a rescue works.
Fixed price, milestone payments, and a written audit before you commit to anything.
Audit, 48 hours
Send repo or tool access. You get a plain-language report of what is solid, what is dangerous, what is unfinished, and a fixed price for the rest.
Fix and harden
Security first: auth, data access, secrets, rate limits, payments. The invisible work that keeps your launch out of the news for the wrong reason.
Finish and launch
The stalled features get built, the deploy pipeline gets set up, and the app goes live on your domain with monitoring, alerts, and daily backups.
Stay if you want
Every rescue includes 30 days of fixes. Many founders keep us on afterwards for the roadmap, through Resident™, our monthly retainer.
The checklist
What “production ready” actually means.
Every rescue closes out this list before we call it done. It is the part of software nobody demos and everybody depends on.
Auth & permissions reviewRow-level security, written and testedSecrets moved out of the clientRate limiting on public endpointsInput validation everywhereStripe live mode + webhooksError tracking wired inUptime monitoring & alertsDaily database backupsCI/CD deploy pipelineCustom domain + SSLStaging environmentPerformance passPrivacy policy & terms pagesDocumented handover30 days of post-launch fixes
We ship for a living.
Rescues only work when the rescuers run production systems themselves.
10+
Systems running in production today, from a Saudi retail app handling tens of thousands of conversations to a full ISP billing platform.
3 months
To replace a 25-year-old billing system for a Lebanese ISP with ~2,000 customers. Finishing your app is a smaller job than that.
48 hours
From repo access to a written audit with a fixed price. No discovery theatre, no hourly meter.
Our own SaaS
We run Compumeal and Tamr, products we built and operate ourselves. We know what breaks after launch because we carry pagers for it.
Common questions
Can you finish an app built with Lovable, Bolt, or Replit?
Yes. That is the core of the service. We take over vibe-coded apps from Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, v0, Base44, and plain ChatGPT or Claude sessions, audit the generated code, and take them the rest of the way to a live product. The tool you used matters less than you think: the stuck points are remarkably similar across all of them.
Is my AI-generated code safe to launch as it is?
Usually not. The most common problems we find are missing row-level security (your database is readable by anyone), API keys shipped in the frontend bundle, permission checks that run in the browser where they can be bypassed, and no rate limiting. None of these show up in a demo. All of them show up after launch. The audit tells you exactly which ones you have.
How much does a rescue cost?
It depends on how far the app got and how much is left, which is exactly what the 48-hour audit answers. You get one fixed price for the whole job before committing to anything, and a typical rescue runs two to four weeks. You never pay everything upfront: 30% on signature, the rest on milestones.
Will you rewrite everything from scratch?
No. Full rewrites are usually ego, not engineering. AI tools produce a lot of genuinely usable code, so we keep what works, restructure what will not scale, and rebuild only the parts that are unsafe or broken. You already paid for the 80%. We finish the 20% that actually ships it.
Can I keep building with my vibe-coding tool afterwards?
Yes, and we set you up for it. The codebase stays connected to your tool where that makes sense (Lovable and Bolt sync with GitHub, Cursor works on any repo), and the handover includes structure and conventions that make future prompting far less likely to break things. You built it once; you should be able to keep building.
What do you need from me to start?
Repo access (GitHub, or an export from your tool), access to the accounts the app uses (hosting, database, Stripe), and 30 minutes on a call to hear what the app is supposed to do. That is enough for the audit.
Who owns the code when you are done?
You do, all of it, in writing. Everything lives in your repo and your accounts from day one, and we sign NDAs before looking at anything. Handover includes documentation your next developer (or your AI tool) can actually work from.
My app is live but breaking. Is that still a rescue?
Yes, and it is the urgent kind. If real users are hitting errors or you suspect a security hole, we triage the dangerous parts first and stabilise before doing the deeper cleanup. Mention it when you book and we move the audit to the front of the queue.
Stuck at 80%? Send it over.
Book a 30-minute call with a founder. Within 48 hours of repo access you will know exactly what is solid, what is dangerous, and what it costs to launch.
