What a vibe-coded app audit should actually give you
If you built quickly with coding agents, the hardest question may be what is actually finished. A useful audit connects your product promises to evidence in the code and observed behavior. It should make the next decision easier.
Start with the brief, not a pile of warnings
Give the reviewer your product description, intended users, critical journeys and current concerns. Include the behaviors you believe work, even if you have only seen them in a demo. The review can then compare intention with implementation. Without that context, an automated list of suspicious code may miss the unfinished feature that matters most to your next customer.
Ask for a reproducible finding
A useful finding describes a specific condition, its effect, and the evidence supporting it. For example, an illustrative booking review might find that a confirmation is displayed before the reservation is persisted. The report should identify the relevant revision and code location, show how that behavior was verified, and distinguish a confirmed defect from a question that still needs testing. A screenshot of a warning alone is rarely enough to scope a fix.
Turn severity into a decision
Ask which findings block the next milestone and why. Access to another customer’s private records, a broken paid journey and an unused component need different treatment. Priority should consider the impact, who is exposed and how the issue could occur. The report should also name what was not reviewed. Uncertainty is easier to manage when it is visible instead of hidden behind a single readiness score.
Make the backlog executable
Each proposed task should name the expected outcome and an acceptance check. Instead of ‘improve authentication,’ ask for the missing permission rule and a test demonstrating that it holds. Group tasks by dependency so the next sprint can finish important journeys. A two-week sprint has limited capacity: agree on the highest-value fixes and report what remains, rather than promise to close an unknown number of issues.
Improve the development workflow too
After fixing the symptoms, look at how they entered the product. Possible changes include a written definition of done, smaller agent tasks, restricted access to production credentials, required checks before merging, and a review of generated database changes. Choose controls that match the observed failures. The aim is a repeatable way to verify future work, not an enormous instruction file that nobody maintains.
How our review fits
Ready or Not starts with a free, focused review within one business day after scope and access are confirmed. It produces a short document with evidence for verified issues in that scope. A paid full audit expands the coverage and turns findings into a prioritized task list and proposed fixes, with development-environment hardening and practical workflow guidance. Implementation can follow in a separately scoped two-week sprint. You can also take the report to your own team.
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