Vibe Code to Production

Take Your Vibe-Coded App to Production

Q: Is vibe-coded code safe to use in production?

Not without a security review first. Veracode found that 45% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities (Veracode, 2025). AI tools optimise for a working demo, not for secure data handling, authentication, or input validation. Vibe-coded apps usually need a focused hardening pass before they touch real user data.

Q: How long does it take to make a vibe-coded app production-ready?

The audit takes a few days to two weeks depending on size. The hardening takes one to two weeks for a small app with one clear problem area, and months for a business application with many screens, several user roles and sensitive data. The audit report gives you the duration for your app before any work starts.

Q: How much does it cost to make a vibe-coded app production-ready?

The audit is a fixed price of 499 EUR, whatever the size of the app. The hardening is a fixed price taken from the audit's itemized list. You see both numbers before you commit to anything, and you never pay by the hour for an open-ended scope.

Q: What do I get from the audit?

A senior architect reads the code, starts the app and checks every scanner result by hand. You get a written report in plain language: what the app does, a production-readiness verdict, the risks ordered by urgency with the business effect and technical cause of each, actions you can take the same day, one recommendation (harden, restructure or rebuild), and a delivery plan with a fixed price. We also list what we did not check and why. The report is yours to use with us, with your own developers or with another firm.

Q: Is the free assessment call a technical assessment?

No. The free call is 30 minutes with one of our founders to understand what the app does, who depends on it and what a launch would need. The technical assessment is the paid audit: a senior architect reads and runs the code and delivers the written report. The call tells you whether the audit is the right next step; the audit tells you what is wrong.

Q: Can I give your report to my AI tool and fix it myself?

The report is written for people, not for coding agents: the owner, the decision makers, the investors who will ask about the code. It says what is at risk, in what order, and what it costs to fix. You can still hand it to your AI tool and it will produce fixes. The difficulty is checking the result. A model that reviews code it wrote tends to miss the same mistakes, because they come from the model, not from the code. Someone independent still has to confirm that each hole is closed, and that is the part most owners cannot do themselves.

Q: Do you warranty the work?

Bugs in code we wrote are fixed free for one month after delivery. Bugs that were already in the code before we arrived are not covered by that warranty; we quote them separately, and the audit will have listed most of them.

Q: Should I fix my vibe-coded app or rebuild it from scratch?

It depends on what the prototype has proved. Most AI-built apps have a usable data model and workflow that are worth keeping, and need their structure and access control rebuilt around them. Some are faster to rebuild. The audit gives you one recommendation and the cost of each path. If a rebuild is the answer, that is our product development service.

Q: Why do the package prices say "from"?

Because the audit decides the scope. The "from" figure is the price for a single web application with its backend and deployment that fails only a handful of checks. Once the audit has listed every finding, you get one fixed number for your app, before any work starts, and that number does not change during the work.

You built the app with Claude, Cursor, Lovable or Replit, and it works. Close the gaps before customers find them. Nobody has checked what sits behind the screens: who can read whose data, where the secrets live, what breaks at the twentieth customer. A senior architect audits the code, runs it, and tells you plainly what blocks a launch and what the fix costs.

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45%

of AI-generated code contains
security vulnerabilities (Veracode, 2025)

499 EUR

fixed-price code audit, credited against the hardening work

1-2 wks

hardening for a small app; complex apps take months

What does taking vibe code to production actually mean?

Taking vibe code to production means turning an AI-generated prototype into software that is safe for real users: secure, scalable, tested, and maintainable. Vibe coding, the practice of building apps by prompting AI tools like Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Bolt, and v0, is excellent for speed. But the output is a prototype, not a production system. The work is closing the gap between the two.

The facts

Vibe coding is great for getting to a working demo fast. It is not built to handle real users, real data, or real scale out of the box.
45% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities (Veracode, 2025). A prototype that handles user data needs a security pass before launch.
Scanners are not enough. In a recent audit the automated secret scan came back clean. The two findings that blocked the launch, a default admin password and a cross-customer data leak, were found by reading the code and starting the app.
Passing tests prove less than they seem to. We have audited an app with hundreds of green tests where not one of them called the code that was actually deployed.
Most vibe-coded apps do not need a rebuild. The audit ends in one of three answers: keep and harden, restructure, or rebuild. You get the answer in writing, with the reasons.

What does taking vibe code to production actually mean?

Why your vibe-coded app isn't ready for real users yet

AI tools are tuned to produce something that works in a demo. What breaks in production is what they skip: who is allowed to see what, what happens when a setting is missing, what a change in one place does to another. If any of these sound familiar, you are at the normal next step, not a dead end.

Can one customer see another customer's data?Login works. Two-factor works. That tells you nothing about whether a default password is still active, or whether one customer can open another customer's records by changing a number in the address bar. Those were the two launch blockers in a recent audit.
Is it slower than it should be?A simple screen takes one to four seconds. The usual cause is not the size of the app. In one case the server and the database sat on opposite sides of the country and every click made up to ten database calls in a row. The first fix took an hour.
Can you recover if something goes wrong?It runs on your machine or on one hosting account. There is no staging copy, no backup you have ever restored, and no alert when something fails. You find out about a problem when a customer tells you.
Can you add features without breaking what works?You asked the tool to describe its own work and the answer reads well. Nobody who can judge it has read it. Meanwhile the same logic exists in two or three places, and a change in one does not reach the others.

What we find when we open the code

From a recent audit of an AI-built business application: about 30,000 lines of code, built by the owner with an AI assistant, in daily use, every feature working on screen.

When it has to be fixed	Risk to the business	What the code showed
Immediately	Someone outside the company could log in as any user, including the administrator, and see every customer's data.	A fallback signing secret and a default admin password written into the code, active whenever one setting was missing. The secret scanner reported zero.
Immediately	Users of one customer could see another customer's records. In a regulated field that is a reportable breach.	Several endpoints checked that someone was logged in, not which customer they belonged to.
Immediately	Every page took 0.7 to 4 seconds, which users notice and which slows adoption.	Server and database on opposite sides of the country. The fix was a configuration change.
Before launch	Passwords could be guessed with little resistance.	The login attempt limit was counted separately by each short-lived server instance and reset on restart.
Before launch	Customers could not receive large documents.	Files passed through a server whose hosting caps request and response size at a fraction of the app's own upload limit.
Before launch	The database could not be recreated reliably, which puts recovery after an incident at risk.	The structure was built by start-up code with ten columns missing. One migration file, months old.
Before a legal trigger	The app could not comply with data-protection law once EU users arrived: personal data could not be fully erased.	Deletions left copies in other records, in stored files and in a change history that kept sensitive identifiers in plain text.

Findings from one audit, ordered by urgency. Client details generalized under NDA.

None of this was visible from the outside. All of it would have been visible to an attacker, to an enterprise customer's security questionnaire, or to an acquirer's due diligence.

How we take a vibe-coded app to production

Two fixed prices, two exit points. You pay for the audit, you get the report, and you decide what happens next. The report is yours whether or not we do the work.

1
Free assessment call and access
A free 30-minute call to understand what the app does, who will depend on it, and what a launch would need. It is not the technical assessment; that is the audit. You sign an NDA and give us read-only access to the repository. We do not need access to production systems or production data.
2
The audit
A senior architect reads the code, starts the application on an empty database, runs the scanners, and reads the results against the code rather than trusting them. Credentials, access between customers, the database schema, dependencies and a clean build are checked in full. Error handling, logging, validation, file handling, writes and background jobs are sampled. We say in the report what we did not check, and why.
3
The report
Written for the owner, not for a developer. It contains:
- what the app does and the verdict, in one paragraph;
- readiness in six areas (security, architecture, data and compliance, operations, code health, delivery), each rated in plain words;
- the risks ordered by when they must be fixed, each stated as its effect on the business with the technical cause beside it;
- urgent actions you can take today;
- one recommendation, keep and harden, restructure or rebuild, with the reasons;
- a delivery plan with phases, team, duration, what we need from you, and what the estimate depends on.
With it comes a fixed price for the work.
4
The work, in order of risk
Secure first: remove built-in secrets and default passwords, enforce access between customers on every endpoint. Then restructure, feature area by feature area, each with tests that run against the real application. Then harden the hosting: versioned database migrations, proper file storage, a staging environment, error tracking, backups with a tested restore, and a deployment pipeline.
5
Launch, and what comes after
Changes go through staging first. The database and file migration is rehearsed there and verified against production counts. The production run happens in a planned window with a one-step rollback. After launch you choose: a support and maintenance agreement, a dedicated team that keeps building with you, or a handover to your own people with documentation written for humans.

What the audit includes

A senior architect, not a junior with a checklist. The same person who would lead the hardening reads your code.
The app is started, not just read. We run it on an empty database to see what happens when a setting is missing or a table does not exist.
Scanners plus manual review. Secret scanners, dependency audits, linters and duplication checks are run and reported, and every result is checked against the code. The two launch blockers in our last audit were things no scanner flagged.
A report ranked by urgency, with a delivery plan. Each risk says when it must be fixed and what it costs the business, and the plan gives phases, team, duration and a fixed price.
A written standard to check against. We audit the code against our architecture decision records (ADRs): how authentication, permissions, validation, data, errors and deployment are supposed to be done, written from years of shipping products in fintech, healthtech and legaltech. The same records guide our own AI tools when we build. Your app is compared with rules a team has already paid to learn, not with one reviewer's taste.

How much does it cost and how long does it take?

The code audit is a fixed 499 EUR for any app size and takes a few days to two weeks. The production hardening after it is a fixed price agreed before it starts: from 4,900 EUR to fix the launch blockers, from 9,900 EUR to take the app to production-ready, with the audit fee credited. A small app with one clear problem area takes one to two weeks; an app with many screens, several user roles and sensitive data might take months, because access control has to be fixed on every endpoint. You never pay by the hour for an open-ended scope.

Choose how far we take it

The audit is the first step of all three. Buy it alone and you have a report you can act on with anyone. Continue, and its fee counts toward the package.

Code audit

Know what blocks a launch.

499 EUR, fixed, any app size

What's included

A senior architect reads and runs the code
Scanners plus manual review
Readiness rated in six areas
Risks ordered by urgency, with the business effect of each
Urgent actions you can take today
A keep, restructure or rebuild verdict
A fixed price for the work

Best for

Anyone who needs the facts before deciding, or who will do the work with their own team.

Book a free assessment call

Recommended

Launch blockers fixed

Resolve the biggest problems first.

From 4,900 EUR, audit included

What's included

Everything in the audit
The launch-blocking findings fixed: secrets and defaults, access control between customers, rate limiting
Tests that verify each fix
A summary of what changed
The remaining findings documented for later

Best for

An app with a launch date and a clear set of critical findings, where someone else will own the rest.

Fix the launch blockers

Production-ready

One team through to launch.

From 9,900 EUR, audit included

What's included

Everything in Launch blockers fixed
Structure: versioned migrations, tests against the running app, input validation, file storage that fits the platform
Operations: staging, error tracking, backups with a tested restore, a deployment pipeline
Essential customer journeys tested
Documentation and handover
One named delivery owner
One-month warranty on the code we wrote

Best for

An app that customers, investors or regulated data will depend on, and a team that wants one accountable partner.

Get it production-ready

The fixed audit price and the package prices cover one web application, its backend and its current deployment. Larger or multi-tenant systems get a separate fixed quote after the audit. Hosting and third-party subscriptions are billed by their providers, not by us.

If you buy the audit first and continue, its fee counts toward the package. We confirm scope, fixed price and timeline before any implementation starts.

If we recommend a rebuild instead, the report says so and gives the cost of both paths.

"The vibe coding tools give you a false sense of speed. It looks good and the button does what you asked for. What takes time is making the code behind the button correct."

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Why we do not just let the AI review itself

Two things we see in every audit of AI-built code.

Writing was never the slow part. Checking is.

AI writes code faster than any team. With a person accountable for the result, the time saved on writing comes back at review: every endpoint has to be read for who may call it, and many decisions need the owner, because only you know what a feature is supposed to do. That is why "built in a week" does not mean "hardened in a week".

A model that reviews its own code misses its own mistakes.

When the same model, or one from the same family, both writes and reviews the code, it skips the same errors, because those errors belong to the model rather than to the code. An independent review by someone who did not write it is the product you are buying, and that reviewer works from a written standard, our ADRs, rather than from memory.

How do you vibe code safely in production?

Five habits separate the AI-built apps that survive real users from the ones that do not.

Write the rules before the prompt. Decide who may see what, how login works, what every input must look like, and give that to the tool as instructions. The model follows rules it is given; it does not invent the ones you forgot.
Keep secrets out of the browser. Anything in client-side code is public. Keys belong in server-side code or a secrets store, and the app should refuse to start when one is missing, not carry on with a default.
One access policy per table or endpoint, tested from the outside. Log out and try to read the data. Log in as a second customer and try again. If either works, the policy is missing, however good the UI looks.
Tests that run against the real application. A test that checks a copy of the logic proves nothing about what is deployed. Start the app on an empty database and test the routes themselves.
An independent review before real data arrives. Someone who did not write the code reads it. The model that wrote it will miss its own mistakes, and no scanner knows your business.

The full twelve-check version, with a ten-minute test for each, is our vibe coding security checklist. If the app already exists and you are not sure where it stands, that is what the audit is for.

Is vibe-coded code safe to ship to production?

Not without a security review first. Veracode found that 45% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities (Veracode, 2025). AI tools optimise for a working demo, not for secure authentication, data handling, or input validation. That does not make vibe coding bad. It makes a hardening pass non-negotiable before the app touches real user data. For the full picture, read our honest breakdown of whether vibe coding is bad and what to fix before shipping.

Which vibe coding tools do you work with?

We work with apps built on all the major vibe coding and AI app builders. The underlying technology matters more than the tool: if your prototype is a web app with a database and a backend, we can review it, harden it, and take it to production. Apps built directly with Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, without an app builder, are included.

Lovable

Replit

Bolt

Cursor

Claude Code

Bubble

AI-assisted coding

A healthcare company brought us a prototype built in Replit. The front end was close to working and the team could show it to anyone. The back end could not be allowed near patient data. We kept what the prototype had proved, the workflow and the data model, rebuilt the rest, and took it to market.

Is this the right service for your situation?

This service is for people who know their business and built the software for it themselves with AI: an operator, a specialist, a team inside an existing company, or a founder without a technical co-founder. The app works and is in use, often internally. Now customers, investors or regulated data are about to depend on it.

Good fit

You built a working application with Claude, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Bolt or v0, and you or your team use it
You are about to onboard outside customers, or to put personal, financial or health data in it
You expect security questionnaires, investor due diligence or an acquirer to look at the code one day
You are a non-technical founder with a working prototype and real users on the way
You want a written verdict in plain language, including "rebuild" if that is the truth

Not the right fit

You have an idea but no working application yet (start with our MVP service instead)
You want someone to take over the code without an audit first
You want a price before anyone has read the code
The app is locked inside a no-code platform that does not export code
You need it production-ready in under a week
You cannot share read-only access to the code

Frequently asked questions about vibe code to production

What does it mean to take vibe code to production?

Is vibe-coded code safe to use in production?

How long does it take to make a vibe-coded app production-ready?

How much does it cost to make a vibe-coded app production-ready?

What do I get from the audit?

Is the free assessment call a technical assessment?

Can I give your report to my AI tool and fix it myself?

Do you warranty the work?

Should I fix my vibe-coded app or rebuild it from scratch?

Why do the package prices say "from"?

Does "Launch blockers fixed" mean my app is ready to launch?

What does production-ready mean here?

Why VeryCreatives?

Find out what it takes to ship yours for real

Book a free assessment call.

The audit tells you honestly how secure and scalable your vibe-coded app is, what blocks a launch, what you can fix today, and a fixed price to get the rest done. No hourly billing, no pitch deck.

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Read: is vibe coding bad?

We'll tell you honestly whether to harden it, restructure it or rebuild it.

You built it, or paid someone to, and it works. The question now is who else it works for. Tell us what the app does and who is about to depend on it, and we come back within 48 hours with the next step: a fixed-price code audit at 499 EUR, whatever the size of the app, credited against the hardening if you continue.

What happens next?

We'll get back to you within 48 hours to schedule a free online consultation with our founders, Máté and Ferenc. They'll discuss your initiative and give you honest, expert feedback on what it will take to build - whether you work with us or not.

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Write to hello@verycreatives.com - we reply by the next working day at the latest.

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Take Your Vibe-Coded App to Production

What does taking vibe code to production actually mean?

Why your vibe-coded app isn't ready for real users yet

What we find when we open the code

How we take a vibe-coded app to production

What the audit includes

How much does it cost and how long does it take?

Why we do not just let the AI review itself

Writing was never the slow part. Checking is.

A model that reviews its own code misses its own mistakes.

How do you vibe code safely in production?

Is vibe-coded code safe to ship to production?

Which vibe coding tools do you work with?

Is this the right service for your situation?

Frequently asked questions about vibe code to production

Related reading for teams shipping AI-built apps

Why VeryCreatives?

Find out what it takes to ship yours for real

Start a Conversation with Máté and Ferenc

What happens next?

Your data is safe

What time zone are you in?

Would you rather write an email?

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