Vibe-code rescue
You’re stuck in the prompt loop. We get you out.
When your AI-built app breaks, buckles under real users, or leaks data, no prompt fixes it. You need engineers. We debug, secure, and ship it into production.
- Bolt.new
- Lovable
- Cursor
- v0
- Replit
- Emergent
Emergency fixes triaged in 24–48 hours · NDA before you share a line of code
- auth / login flowFAILING
- 50 concurrent usersTIMEOUT
- api keys in client bundleEXPOSED
- database under loadCHOKING
We rescue apps built on
The wall is real
AI builds 80% of an app in a weekend. It’s the last 20% that breaks you.
Conversational coding can’t reason about your whole system at once, so it patches one thing and quietly breaks another. You’ve probably hit one of these already.
the infinite loop
You fix one bug, three more appear
You prompt the fix. It lands — and silently breaks two features you’d already shipped. An hour later you’re back where you started, with a worse codebase.
the scale wall
It works for you. Not for fifty people.
Solo, everything’s smooth. The moment real users log in together, the database chokes, the UI lags, and the whole thing falls over at the worst possible time.
the spaghetti
No developer will touch the code
Generated line by line with no architecture, the structure is a maze. Most engineers take one look and quote a rewrite. Reading AI-built code is what we do.
the data black hole
You don’t know what’s exposed
Where’s user data going? Are the API keys safe? Does any of this meet basic privacy law? Shipping without a real code review is a business risk, not a detail.
How fast — depends what’s on fire
You don’t need a six-month engagement. You need the right fix, now.
We scope the work to the emergency. Here’s what each level of rescue takes.
- 24–48 hrsEmergency
Emergency bug fix
A broken login, a crashing API, payments down. We stop the bleeding first.
- 3–5 daysAudit
Code & security audit
A full read of what’s broken, what’s exposed, and what it takes to make it safe — before it costs you.
- 2–4 weeksMigration
Production migration
Off the prototype and onto real infrastructure — proper database, auth, and hosting that holds under load.
What a rescue looks like
How we get an app off the wall, start to finish.
Every rescue begins the same way: we read the codebase, find what’s broken and what’s costing you, and give you a written triage — the fix, the risk, the timeline, the price. Two real rescues below, both kept anonymous at the client’s request.
- What we check: auth and access, data flow, secrets and API keys, how it behaves under real load, where the costs are leaking, and where the architecture will bend next.
- What you get: a plain-English triage report you keep, a fixed timeline and price, and production-ready code that’s yours.
Lovable · Shopify CRM
A paid SaaS that broke the moment real users arrived
Worked for the founder and his friends, fell over on paying users. We put in rate limiting, caching and asset compression, fixed the payment handling, and shipped what mattered within 24 hours.
Read the walk-throughAnonymous at client’s requestBolt · Internal ops app
The one app a whole business was running on
Fragile, with every change pushed straight to production and no engineer to call. We stabilised it fast, ended the push-to-live problem, then rebuilt the parts that couldn’t be trusted.
Read the walk-throughWhy us, not another dev
A normal developer refuses AI-built code. We specialise in it.
Rescue is the front door. Once your app is stable, the same team can keep building it — or hand it back clean. Your call.
Prompt it again
The tool that built the problem can’t see the whole system. More prompts, more entropy.
A freelancer from a marketplace
Most quote a rewrite the moment they open the repo. You lose the weekend you already won.
A traditional agency
Slow, expensive, and wary of code they didn’t architect. The wrong tool for an emergency.
THWorks
We read AI-built codebases for a living — debug, secure, and scale what you already have, fast.
How it works
Four steps. You know exactly what happens after you reach out.
Audit call
15 minutes. You show us the app and where it hurts. NDA first, if you want one.
Triage report
What’s broken, what’s risky, what it takes to fix — with a clear timeline and price.
We fix it
Debug, secure, or migrate. You get progress you can see, not a black box.
Handover
Production-ready code that’s yours. Keep us on as your team, or take it and run.
Your idea stays yours. We sign an NDA before you share a single line of code — no exceptions, no awkward asking.
Before you book
The questions founders ask first.
Whether it’s fixable, how fast, what it costs, and what stays yours.
Almost never. We work with AI-generated code every week — the tangle you’re apologising for is the normal starting point, not a dealbreaker. The audit tells you honestly whether to fix, refactor, or rebuild a piece, and why.
For a contained emergency — a broken login, a crashing endpoint, payments down — yes. We triage on the audit call and tell you upfront whether it’s a same-day fix or a bigger job, so you’re never waiting on a surprise.
Apps built on Bolt.new, Lovable, Cursor, v0, Replit and Emergent, plus the usual stack underneath — Supabase, Firebase, Next.js, Postgres. If AI wrote most of it, we can read it.
Usually not. The point of a rescue is to save the part that works and fix the part that doesn’t. We only recommend rebuilding a piece when keeping it would cost you more than replacing it — and we show you that reasoning rather than asking you to take it on faith.
Yes, before you share anything. Your idea and your code stay confidential from the first call — the NDA comes before the audit, not after it.