Prototype → Production
The generator got you here. It can't get you further.
Every AI codegen tool optimises for the first working version. Production is a different objective — and the gap is remarkably consistent whichever tool you used.
- Fixed-fee audit in 3-5 days
- Launch in 30-60 days
- You own the repo and the IP
What we find, every time
Four findings in almost every audit.
- 01
Secrets in the client bundle
API keys inlined into frontend code because the prototype had no server to hide them behind. Anyone can read them with view-source, and rotating them is the first thing we do.
- 02
Authorisation checked in the UI
The admin button is hidden from non-admins, and the endpoint behind it is wide open. Hiding a control is not access control, and this is the single most common serious finding.
- 03
No migration history
The schema exists because someone clicked through a dashboard. There's no record of how it got that way and no safe path to change it, so the first production schema change is terrifying.
- 04
Nothing to catch a regression
No tests, so the next AI-assisted edit that breaks checkout is discovered by a customer. This is what makes generated codebases feel fragile — not the code quality, the absence of a safety net.
By tool
The tool-specific version.
The findings above are universal. These pages cover what each generator specifically gets wrong, because knowing the shape of the problem is most of the estimate.
Bolt.new
Bolt to Production
Bolt gets you to a running product in an afternoon. We add the things it never had to think about — real auth, migrations, payments that can't double-charge, and a test suite that survives your next prompt.
- Supabase with RLS disabled or wide open
- Business logic in the browser
- Regenerated files lose fixes
Lovable
Lovable to Production
Lovable is very good at producing an app that looks and feels finished. What it can't know is which of your tables must never be readable by another customer — and that's the finding that stops enterprise deals.
- Row-level security that passes a demo, not an audit
- Storage buckets left public
- Edge Functions without input validation
v0 by Vercel
v0 to Production
v0 output is the best-looking starting point in the category, and it is almost entirely frontend. The work is building the system underneath it — and doing that without throwing away the UI you liked.
- State that was never meant to persist
- Server Actions used as an unguarded API
- No data model, just component props
Replit Agent
Replit Agent to Production
Replit Agent builds whole applications, backend included — which puts you further along than most generators. The catch is how much of it assumes it's running inside Replit.
- Platform coupling nobody chose
- State on the filesystem
- A single process doing everything
Cursor
Cursor Codebase to Production
Cursor-built codebases fail differently. The code is often good; there's just a lot of it, written quickly, with no test suite and no shared idea of how the pieces fit together.
- Three ways to do the same thing
- Coverage where it was easy, not where it matters
- Dependencies nobody chose deliberately
any AI-generated prototype
AI Prototype to Production
Whichever tool generated it — Bolt, Lovable, v0, Replit, Claude, Cursor, something newer — the failure pattern is consistent. So is the fix.
- It assumes the happy path
- The security model is the UI
- Cost has no ceiling
The 30-day ship guarantee
If we don't ship working code in 30 days, you don't pay.
Working code means deployed to a URL we agreed on in week 1, with the eval suite we scoped passing. If we miss that bar for reasons within our control — our team, our timeline, our capacity — the entire engagement is free. Spelled out explicitly in the contract.
- Defined bar. Deploy URL + agreed eval suite passing — written down before we start.
- Real teeth. Miss it for our reasons → no invoice. Not a discount, not a credit — zero.
- Fair carve-out. Only covers blockers within our control — not data access you can't grant us.
- Code is yours. Whether you pay or not, the repo and IP belong to you from day one.
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