AI Vibe Code Audit
You Vibe Coded It. Customers are Using It. Now Make It Last.
Most of the apps we audit are already live. They work. They just aren’t ready to scale, survive a determined attacker, or pass an audit. Senior U.S. engineers go through your AI-built codebase, tell you exactly what’s standing between today’s app and a system you can keep growing on, and work alongside you to fix it. No offshore. No babysitting. Just engineers.
We Work with Vibe Code Platforms
It works. It’s not ready.
It Works in Production. That doesn’t Make it Production-Grade.
AI tools are amazing for getting from idea to live in a weekend. The result usually does what it was supposed to do. The problem is what’s underneath it: assumptions about scale that won’t hold, security shortcuts that haven’t bitten yet, and audit posture that won’t survive a serious look. Sound familiar?
Security
“It just hardcoded our Stripe key into the repo.”
The model doesn’t know your secrets management strategy. It will cheerfully commit credentials and skip auth checks to get the demo to “working” faster. Six weeks later, those keys are live and customers are signed up.
Architecture
“Every page makes 40 database calls.”
Vibe-coded apps optimize for visible behavior, not invisible cost. N+1 queries, missing indexes, full table scans. Fine at 10 users, on fire at 1,000.
Maintainability
“I have no idea how half of this works.”
Generated code is plausible-looking, not consistent. Three different patterns for the same problem, dead code, ghost dependencies, and zero tests when you need to change something six months in.
Compliance
“Our SOC 2 auditor wants to talk.”
Logs all over stdout. PII unencrypted. Audit trails that aren’t. You can’t vibe code your way through HIPAA, PCI, or SOC 2, but you can absolutely vibe code your way into needing it fast.
It works. It’s not ready.
It Works in Production. That doesn’t Make it Production-Grade.
AI tools are amazing for getting from idea to live in a weekend. The result usually does what it was supposed to do. The problem is what’s underneath it: assumptions about scale that won’t hold, security shortcuts that haven’t bitten yet, and audit posture that won’t survive a serious look. Sound familiar?
Security
“It just hardcoded our Stripe key into the repo.”
The model doesn’t know your secrets management strategy. It will cheerfully commit credentials and skip auth checks to get the demo to “working” faster. Six weeks later, those keys are live and customers are signed up.
Architecture
“Every page makes 40 database calls.”
Vibe-coded apps optimize for visible behavior, not invisible cost. N+1 queries, missing indexes, full table scans. Fine at 10 users, on fire at 1,000.
Maintainability
“I have no idea how half of this works.”
Generated code is plausible-looking, not consistent. Three different patterns for the same problem, dead code, ghost dependencies, and zero tests when you need to change something six months in.
Compliance
“Our SOC 2 auditor wants to talk.”
Logs all over stdout. PII unencrypted. Audit trails that aren’t. You can’t vibe code your way through HIPAA, PCI, or SOC 2, but you can absolutely vibe code your way into needing it fast.
What’s in the audit
It Works in Production. That doesn’t Make it Production-Grade.
AI tools are amazing for getting from idea to live in a weekend. The result usually does what it was supposed to do. The problem is what’s underneath it: assumptions about scale that won’t hold, security shortcuts that haven’t bitten yet, and audit posture that won’t survive a serious look. Sound familiar?
Security & Secrets
Hardcoded keys, leaky env vars, unsafe deserialization, exposed admin routes, OWASP top 10.
Architecture
Service boundaries, coupling, state management, scaling chokepoints, multi-tenant isolation.
Data Layer
Schema sanity, indexes, N+1 queries, migrations, transactional safety, backup posture.
Performance
Bundle size, render path, caching, server response budgets, load behavior, cold-start cost.
Auth & Permissions
Session handling, RBAC, middleware order, IDOR, password & token lifecycle.
Dependencies
Package risk, abandoned libs, license traps, lockfile drift, supply-chain hygiene.
Code Quality & Tests
Patterns, type safety, test coverage where it matters, dead code, AI-hallucinated APIs.
DevOps & Deploy
CI/CD, environments, secrets in build, observability, rollback, infra-as-code.
Compliance Readiness
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR alignment. Audit trails, data residency, retention, access reviews.
What you walk away with
A Report You’ll Use. And a Plan that Ships.
Most audits hand you a 60-page PDF and a goodbye. We hand you a prioritized findings doc, a fix-plan with effort estimates, and the option to have our engineers start on the work the next morning.
How it works
Four Steps. Two Weeks.
From repo access to a clear path forward in roughly ten business days. No theatrics, no decks, no tier-three discovery workshops.
01
30-Minute Kickoff
You walk us through what you built, why, and what’s keeping you up at night. We figure out scope, get repo access, and confirm what “ship-ready” means for your business.
Day 1 · NDA & repo access
02
Senior Engineer Audit
One named senior engineer reads your code with a checklist of about 200 things vibe-coded apps tend to miss. They run your tooling, your build, your tests (if any), and your deployment.
Days 2–7 · Real eyes, real terminal
03
Findings + Walkthrough
Prioritized report delivered, then a 90-minute live walkthrough with your team. We answer questions, demo the issues, and help you decide what’s worth fixing now.
Days 8–10 · Report + live session
04
(Optional) We Ship the Fixes
Want it gone? Same Hoyack engineers pick up the critical findings and remediate. You stay in the loop with daily diffs and PRs you actually review.
Week 3+ · Engagement on your terms
It works. It’s not ready.
It Works in Production. That doesn’t Make it Production-Grade.
AI tools are amazing for getting from idea to live in a weekend. The result usually does what it was supposed to do. The problem is what’s underneath it: assumptions about scale that won’t hold, security shortcuts that haven’t bitten yet, and audit posture that won’t survive a serious look. Sound familiar?
FOUNDERS
Solo / Technical Founders
You built an MVP with Cursor or Lovable in a weekend, shipped it, and now have customers depending on it. You can feel the foundation getting wobbly. You want a senior engineer to call it before your users do.
TEAMS
Small Product Teams
Your team is shipping fast with AI assistance. Velocity is great. Confidence in the codebase is not. You need an outside read before you commit to scaling on top of it.
AGENCIES
Agencies & Consultants
You delivered a vibe-coded build to a client. Now they want SOC 2, HIPAA, or just “won’t fall over.” White-label our audit, hand the report to your client, sleep through the night.
Why Hoyack
Senior U.S. Engineers. Boring on Purpose.
Hoyack has been shipping software for 10+ years across fintech, healthcare, and regulated industries. We’re not a vibe-coding service trying to grade homework. We’re the engineering firm enterprises hire when “kind of works” isn’t allowed.
SOC 2
Type II certified
150+
Production projects
10+
Years in the trenches
100%
Onshore U.S. team
Sensible Questions, Straight Answers.
If We’re On Your Shortlist, Let’s Make
Sure You’re Comparing Apples To Apples.
30 minutes with a senior US engineer. We scope, share a timeline range, and tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit. No obligation.
