Find out if your app is ready for customers.
A fixed-price review of your application, infrastructure and operations, with a clear verdict and a plan, within 10 working days.
What we look at.
Architecture
How the app is put together: where it is hosted, the services it depends on, how data moves between them, and the single points of failure that would take it down.
Code and repository
Where the code lives, who can change it, how changes are reviewed and merged, and whether any secrets have been committed along the way.
AI development setup
Which AI tools and agents work on the code, which credentials and systems they can reach, and how their changes are checked before they get to production.
APIs
How your APIs authenticate callers and handle errors and heavy use, and what happens to your app when a third-party API it relies on is slow or down.
Data and backups
Where your data lives, who can read it, whether backups exist for the database and for stored files, and whether anyone has ever restored one.
Deployment
How a change reaches production, whether a bad release can be rolled back, and whether releasing depends on one person or one laptop.
Security
Secrets and keys, logins and admin access, database access rules, and multi-factor sign-in on the accounts that control everything else.
Monitoring and operations
Whether anyone is told when the app breaks, what gets logged, and whether someone other than the person who built it could run it tomorrow.
Scale and cost
The plan limits you are closest to, the parts that will struggle first as usage grows, and the hosting and AI provider costs that rise with it.
What you get.
- A clear verdict: Ready, Ready with conditions, or Not ready.
- A risk list: every issue rated critical, high, medium or low, with what to do about it.
- An action plan: do now, do next, do later.
- A plan for the fixes: a fixed-price outcome or a block of prepaid hours.
- A one-hour readout to walk you through it and agree priorities.
Built for AI-assisted apps.
Where you use AI development tools, we also check what the agents can reach: credentials, permissions, integrations, how generated code is reviewed and tested, and who can get to production.
How it works.
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Step 1
Book a call
30 minutes with an engineer.
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Step 2
Share access
Share access to your repository and environment.
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Step 3
Get your verdict
Get your verdict, risk list and plan, walked through in a one-hour readout.
What's covered.
One application, one main repository, one production environment and its main database, APIs and dependencies. Larger apps can be scoped.
FAQ
Is this a code audit?
No. It's an operational readiness review: can this app be run, recovered and supported safely? It isn't a line-by-line code audit.
What if it isn't ready?
You'll know exactly why and what to fix first. We can help you fix it, or your team can.
Do we have to buy anything else?
No. If it passes with minor findings, you can go straight to support, or stop there.
Which tools do you support?
Any modern approach, including Claude Code, Lovable and Replit.
What is a Support Blocker?
An issue that makes it unsafe for anyone to take on support, such as no rollback, insecure secrets or production running on someone's laptop. We'll flag these clearly.
Where this fits.
Critical Launch gets modern applications ready for production. Critical Support keeps them there. The Launch Check is step two: build, check, fix, run, grow.
Engineering Drawdown
Fix what the check found, with prepaid hours of senior engineering time.
Critical Launch
Every step from first check to full support, and the services for founders.
Find out where you stand.
A clear verdict, a rated risk list and a plan within 10 working days.