Bilal’s bootstrapped SaaS shipped fast. He’d copy-pasted from ChatGPT for most of it. A fractional CTO opened the repo, found 60K lines of snippets, six patterns for the same thing, no tests, and three files named newAuth.js, newAuth2.js, newAuth_final.js. He passed politely.
Rescue ChatGPT code security audit · AI-generated code review · UK
A ChatGPT code security audit. before someone else runs one.
You shipped a ChatGPT-built app and you've real paying users now. In 5 days, two senior engineers find the six versions of auth, the string-concat SQL, the Stripe webhook with no signature, the .env in a public repo — then a fix list ranked Critical / High / Medium, sample code per finding. £8K fixed, or £1,500 founder tier for sub-1K-LOC apps.
24hreply, from a senior
200+projects shipped since 2019
Senioronly, on the spine
(Why founders book the audit)
Your ChatGPT codebase shipped fast. Now find out what’s missing before someone else does.
Escape.tech scanned 5,600 vibe-coded apps and found 2,000+ vulnerabilities, 400 exposed secrets, 175 PII leaks. The Tea app leaked 72K images and 1.1M private DMs from one default Firebase permission. This is the audit that catches yours first.
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The founder this page is for60K LOC · 21 findings · 6 critical
Bilal shipped in three months. Two hundred customers by month six. Then the seed lead asked one question.
The seed lead asked: “Has anyone independent looked at this yet?” You can’t blame the tool. ChatGPT is brilliant at unblocking. It is not a code reviewer, a security tester, or an architect. The gaps were real and nobody had counted them.
We ran the 5-day audit. Twenty-one findings. Six critical: SQL injection, six versions of auth, plaintext PII in logs, no rate limit, no audit log, no CSRF. He had the written report on day six. This page is for founders who’d rather know what’s in their ChatGPT codebase before the seed lead does.
The 5-day window
One fixed audit cadence
Same shape every time. NDA Monday morning, written report Friday afternoon, hourly support during the run. Twelve ChatGPT audits done on this exact rhythm since 2024.
Day-01
Security assessment
OWASP Top-10 pen test against your live ChatGPT app. Auth review across sessions, tokens, RLS and anon-key handling. Secret scan over the repo and Git history.
Day-02
Architecture review
Schema, foreign keys, indexes and multi-tenant boundaries. Data-flow diagram, state-management audit, webhook reliability and a scale model at ten times current traffic.
Day-03
Code quality + test coverage
Static analysis, dead-code map and a test-coverage report. Logging and observability audit. CI/CD pipeline review with the deploy-rollback path tested end to end.
Day-04-05
Compliance + written report
SOC-2 readiness checklist and UK GDPR data handling. DPA template, sub-processor list and a 30-page report with a severity-ranked fix list, sample code and effort estimates.
Ten things we find in
almost every ChatGPT audit.
Patterns from twelve independent ChatGPT audits. You can’t blame the tool. You can fix the gaps before someone else finds them. Open any row.
ChatGPT was asked ‘build auth’ six times. Six implementations in the repo: auth.js, newAuth.js, newAuth_v2.js, newAuth_final.js, REAL_auth.js. Nobody knows which one is live.
ChatGPT generated string-concatenated SQL. WHERE name = the-raw-input patterns throughout the codebase. Every form field is an injection vector.
ChatGPT defaulted to logging full request bodies. Customer email, phone, and address logged at INFO level. A GDPR breach inside the first audit hour.
Who changed what, when, why? No record. The SOC-2 audit becomes a six-month panic instead of a two-hour questionnaire.
Full name, email, and billing address loaded into React state and visible in browser dev tools to anyone logged in.
Customer-list queries take 14 seconds at 5K records. At 50K they time out. Today it’s fine. In three months it’s an outage.
Stripe live key, OpenAI key, or SendGrid key in plain text in a .env that’s in Git history. Git blame says “ChatGPT”.
Login and signup endpoints accept unlimited requests. Brute force becomes possible. Anomaly detection is nonexistent.
No unit tests, no integration tests, no e2e tests. Every refactor is a leap of faith and every deploy is a held breath.
The first enterprise customer asks for a security questionnaire and a DPA. You have neither. The deal stalls.
5 days. Four assessments. One written report.
Same shape every audit. NDA Monday morning. Written report Friday afternoon. Hourly support during the run. 12 ChatGPT audits done since 2024 on this exact cadence.
- 01
“I vibe-coded the whole app. Is the auth layer actually secure?”
OWASP Top-10 pen test against your live ChatGPT app. Auth review (sessions, tokens, RLS, anon-key handling). Dependency audit. Secret scanning across repo and Git history.
- 02
“I have 200 users. The deck says 50,000. Will the code survive?”
Schema review, foreign keys, indexes, multi-tenant boundaries. Data-flow diagram. State management audit. Webhook reliability check. Load and scale model at 10× current traffic.
- 03
“A senior will open the codebase and refuse the offer.”
Static analysis. Dead-code map. Test coverage report. Logging and observability audit. CI/CD pipeline review. Deploy-rollback path tested end to end.
- 04
“My first enterprise customer sent a 60-page security questionnaire.”
SOC-2 readiness checklist. UK GDPR data handling. DPA template, sub-processor list, and a 30-page written report with severity-ranked fix list, sample code, and effort estimates.
What ships in the report
What the audit covers
5 days of senior attention, one 30-page written report. Here are the five workstreams every ChatGPT codebase gets, ranked by where the critical findings hide.
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Findings per codebase
6crit
Critical issues found
“The seed lead asked one question: has anyone independent looked at this yet? We ran the 5-day audit and Bilal had the written report on day six.”
001
OWASP Top-10 penetration test
Every category tested against your live ChatGPT app. Pass or fail per row, sample attack and remediation per failure, severity-ranked finding list with effort in GBP.
002
Auth, secret-scan + dependency audit
Token expiry, refresh, RLS coverage, anon-key handling and the MFA path. Every credential found in repo and Git history with a rotation plan. CVE-mapped package review.
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Architecture review + scale model
Schema, foreign keys, indexes and multi-tenant boundaries. Data-flow diagram, state-management audit and a load model at ten times your current traffic.
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Code quality + test coverage report
Static analysis, dead-code map and a test-coverage report. Logging and observability audit. CI/CD pipeline review with the deploy-rollback path tested end to end.
005
SOC-2 readiness + UK GDPR / DPA pack
Every control assessed with a gap list and an 8-12 week path to ready. Signed DPA template, sub-processor list, data-flow diagram and ROPA. The questionnaire takes two hours.
The questions, in their words
The lines founders say before the audit, and the numbers they walk away with after it.
100%
would refer us
I vibe-coded the whole app. Is the auth layer actually secure?
What founders actually ask about the audit
Pain-first, soft-second.
The honest answer: probably not yet, and that’s normal. Across 12 ChatGPT audits, every codebase had at least three critical findings: an auth gap, a billing race condition, a tenant-isolation hole, or a missing audit log. ChatGPT is a brilliant builder. It’s not a security platform. The 5-day ChatGPT code security audit tells you what’s missing, ranked by severity, with effort estimates.
No. Every founder we audit shipped fast with the tools that worked. We’re not judging your speed. We’re telling you what to fix before someone else finds it. The audit report is written for you, not against you. We’ve never named-and-shamed a client and we never will.
5 days of senior engineering attention on your codebase. OWASP-grade penetration test against your live ChatGPT app. Architecture review. Load model at 10× current traffic. SOC-2 readiness checklist. UK GDPR + DPA pack. Code quality and test coverage report. A 30-page written report with severity-ranked findings, sample code per finding, and effort estimates in GBP and engineering days. You can walk away after the audit. Most founders don’t, but the option is real. Sub-1K-LOC apps get the £1,500 founder tier.
No. The audit runs against a staging copy of your codebase and a separate environment for penetration testing. Your production stays untouched. Your customers don’t see a thing.
Yes. The report is written so your engineer can fix the findings without us. Every finding has sample code, an effort estimate, and a recommended pattern. About a third of our audited clients fix in-house, about a third use us for the critical fixes only, and about a third move to a full rebuild. All three paths are fine. You decide on day six.
For most cases, yes. The audit doubles as a diligence pack: architecture diagram, six suggested ADRs, threat model, sub-processor list, SOC-2 readiness checklist, DPA template. Seed leads have read it on Friday and approved on Monday. Enterprise customers have used it to skip 70% of their security questionnaire. Full SOC-2 certification is a separate 8-12 week paperwork phase; we hand you the path.
Yes, before anything else. NDA signed inside 30 minutes via DocuSign. We only need read-only repo access for the audit, never write access. Findings are encrypted at rest, accessible only to the engineers on your project, and destroyed 90 days after handover unless you request longer retention.
ChatGPT is the builder. We’re an independent auditor. The AI-generated code review you get from us is the one your acquirer’s CTO trusts because it isn’t coming from the company that built the tool. Our pen test goes against your live app, the dependencies you imported, the integrations you wired in, and the deploy infrastructure you chose. Different angle, different findings.
That’s the best time to book it. Founders who run the audit before the diligence call walk into the meeting with the report in hand. Round timelines shorten. The seed lead asks for the audit and you already have it. That’s the conversation we want you to have.
In context
See it in context.
A look at the kind of chatgpt code rescue surface we hand over — real screens, real data, documented and yours from day one.
Book the 5-day audit. NDA inside 30 minutes.
Tell us the ChatGPT app URL, your seed timeline, and the customer you’d like to close next. Mohit replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it.
What happens after the email lands
- < 24h
A personal reply.
Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox.
- Mon
NDA + read-only access.
Signed in 30 minutes. Two senior engineers start the audit that morning.
- Fri
30-page written report.
Severity-ranked fix list, sample code, effort in GBP. You walk away with it.