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AI app rescue

From slop
to solid.

Your AI-built app works — right up until it doesn’t. We untangle the code, close the holes, and get you shipping again. Without starting over.

Hand us the mess How it works

A real person reads every request. No sales script.

Illustration: a generic AI-generated landing page with a clashing purple gradient, crooked cards, novelty fonts and a runtime error, which straightens into a calm, consistent page.

Sound familiar?

It felt like magic. Now it feels like a hostage situation.

AI tools are brilliant at the first 80%. The last 20% — the part real users touch — is where AI-generated apps quietly fall apart. You’re not bad at this. The tools just don’t clean up after themselves.

  • “Every fix breaks two other things.”

    The code has no shape, so every change is a gamble.

  • “The AI keeps fixing it in circles.”

    Same bug, new disguise, round and round the same prompt.

  • “Nobody knows how it works anymore.”

    Including the model that wrote it, and you’re the one on call.

  • “It demos great. Real users break it.”

    Logins drop, payments double-charge, data goes missing.

  • “There are keys in the repo.”

    No tests, no backups, and secrets where anyone can find them.

  • “I’m scared to touch it.”

    So the roadmap stalls while the bug list grows.

How we save the day

Three moves. No rewrite pitch.

Engineers who use AI every day read your code the way a mechanic listens to an engine — then fix it in the order that gets you out of danger fastest.

  1. 01 Triage

    We read all of it.

    Every file, every dependency, every secret. You get a plain-English map of what’s solid, what’s risky and what’s dead weight.

    • Security & data-loss risks, ranked
    • What to keep, what to cut
    • An honest fix-or-rebuild call

  2. 02 Stabilise

    We stop the bleeding.

    Close the holes, put tests around the parts that make you money, and make deploys boring — so nothing breaks while we work.

    • Secrets out of the code
    • Tests on the critical paths
    • Backups and one-click rollbacks

  3. 03 Ship

    We get you moving.

    Fix the thing you actually needed fixed, then hand back a codebase you — and your AI tools — can keep building on safely.

    • The blocking features, finished
    • Clear structure your AI can follow
    • Written notes on how it all fits

What changes

Less clever. More correct.

Most rescues aren’t heroic rewrites. They’re hundreds of small, deliberate corrections — the kind a model skips because nothing told it to care.

The result looks quieter. It also stays up.

api/invoices.ts−5 +5
// generated, then patched by hand at 2amconst STRIPE_KEY = "sk_live_51Hx…"  // TODO removeconst stripeKey = env.require("STRIPE_SECRET_KEY") app.get("/invoices", async (req, res) => {  res.json(await db.query("SELECT * FROM invoices"))app.get("/invoices", requireUser, async (req, res) => {  res.json(await invoices.listFor(req.user.id, req.page))}) try { await charge(order) } catch (e) {}try { await charge(order) } catch (e) {}  // retry?await charge(order, { idempotencyKey: order.id })// covered by tests/billing/charge.test.ts

Our promises

Straight talk, clean hands.

Keep what works

We don’t bin your app to sell you a new one. Rebuilds only when they’re honestly cheaper.

Plain English

You’ll always know what we changed, why, and what it means for your business.

You own it all

Your code, your accounts, your keys. Nothing is held hostage — that was the old problem.

No judgement

Shipping something with AI took nerve. We’re here to finish the job, not grade it.

Questions

Before you hand it over.

Will you make me start over?

Almost never. Most AI-built apps have a sound idea and a lot of working code buried under the mess. We keep what works, replace what’s dangerous, and only recommend a rebuild when it’s honestly cheaper.

Does it matter which AI tool built it?

No. App builders, coding agents, chat assistants, or a contractor leaning on all three — the failure patterns are the same, and so is the fix.

Can I keep using AI after you’re done?

Yes, and you should. We leave the codebase in a shape your AI tools can work with safely: clear structure, tests that catch regressions, and written notes on how it all fits together.

What happens after I reach out?

A person reads what you send and replies with an honest read: what we’d fix first, roughly what it involves — or whether you even need us.

Hand us the mess.

Tell us what’s broken and what you’re afraid to touch. We’ll tell you, straight, what it takes to make it solid.

Start a rescue