Tara is a solo founder. She doesn’t code. She used Claude Code in her terminal to ship her MVP across three months of nights and weekends. Eighty paying customers signed up. Then she raised pre-seed, and the seed lead introduced her to a senior engineer for her first hire.
Rescue
A Claude Code audit for the MVP that’s done. but you don’t trust yet.
Did Claude Code write most of your app? Before you raise pre-seed, hire your first engineer, or sign an enterprise customer, get an independent Claude Code audit, OWASP-grade pen test, and a hire-ready handover pack. We find the patterns no human reviewed, the security gaps a model missed, the test coverage that’s zero, then hand you a prioritised fix list, or consolidate on MERN + AWS, your call.
24hreply, from a senior
200+projects shipped since 2019
Senioronly, on the spine
(Why founders book the Claude Code audit)
Your Claude Code codebase shipped fast. Now find out what’s missing before someone else does.
An independent Claude Code audit tells you what’s in your repo, ranked by severity, with effort estimates. Six audits since 2024. NDA Monday, written report Friday.
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The founder this page is for80 paying users · 18 findings · 5 critical
Tara shipped her MVP. The code worked. A second human couldn’t read it.
He read the repo for forty minutes and said: “I can’t maintain this. There’s no pattern I can follow.” The codebase worked. It just wasn’t something a second human could pick up without months of archaeology. The seed lead asked: “Has anyone independent looked at this yet?”
We ran the 5-day audit. Found eighteen things. Five were critical: no auth boundary, secrets in the client bundle, no rate limit, no tenant isolation, no audit log. She had the written report on day six. This page is for founders who’d rather know what’s in their Claude Code codebase before the seed lead does.
5 days. Four assessments. One written report.
Same shape every audit. NDA Monday morning. Written report Friday afternoon. Hourly support during the run. Six Claude Code audits since 2024 on this exact cadence.
- 01
“I vibe-coded the auth layer. Is it actually secure?”
OWASP Top-10 pen test against your live Claude Code app. Auth review: sessions, tokens, RLS coverage, anon-key handling. Dependency audit. A Claude Code secret leak audit across the repo and session logs.
- 02
“I have 200 users. The deck says 50,000. Will the code survive?”
Schema review, data-flow diagram, state-management audit. Foreign keys, indexes, multi-tenant boundaries. Webhook reliability check. Load and scale model at 10× current traffic. The query that times out first.
- 03
“Each Claude Code session produced a different pattern. Can a senior pick it up?”
Static analysis, dead-code map, test-coverage report. Logging and observability audit. CI/CD pipeline review. Deploy-rollback path tested. Patterns counted so your senior hire reads the audit and the codebase together.
- 04
“My first enterprise customer sent a 60-page security questionnaire.”
SOC-2 readiness checklist. UK GDPR data handling. DPA pack. 30-page written Claude Code production review with a severity-ranked fix list, sample code per finding, and effort estimates in GBP and engineering days.
COMMON CLAUDE CODE AUDIT FINDINGS · THE TEN WE SEE IN 80% OF CODEBASES
Ten things we find in almost every Claude Code audit
Patterns across six independent audits. Claude Code is exceptional at generating production-shaped code one prompt at a time. The whole codebase still needs human-grade architecture and human-grade security review. You can’t blame the tool. You can fix the gaps before someone else finds them.
Fabricated package names
Imports for packages that don’t exist. The build fails, or npm installs a typosquatted malicious package with a similar name. Critical.
No pattern consistency
Each session produced a different pattern for the same problem. After three months there’s no “the way we do it.” New engineers can’t find their footing. Critical.
Prompt-leaked secrets
Session logs saved to disk included pasted .env contents. Secrets now live in your filesystem history. The Claude Code secret leak audit catches it. Critical.
No audit log on any mutation
Who changed what, when, why? No record. The SOC-2 audit becomes a six-month panic. Critical.
Customer PII in client state
Full name, email, billing address loaded into React state and visible in the browser dev tools to anyone logged in. High.
Postgres queries with no indexes
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. High.
Secrets committed to the repo
Stripe live key, model API key, or SendGrid key in plain text in a .env that’s in Git history. High.
No rate limiting on auth endpoints
Login and signup accept unlimited requests. Brute force becomes possible. Anomaly detection nonexistent. High.
Zero test coverage
No unit tests. No integration tests. No e2e tests. Every refactor is a leap of faith. Medium.
No SOC-2 / DPA / GDPR pack
The first enterprise customer asks for a security questionnaire and a DPA. You have neither. The deal stalls. Medium.
Recent client · UK proptech · 2025
Tara’s Claude Code codebase,
Tara’s Claude Code codebase,
audited then consolidated, in numbers
Brief: audit the Claude Code-built SaaS before hiring the first engineer. We found 18 issues, five critical. Tara consolidated with us across eight weeks on MERN + AWS, same UI, one defensible spine. Her first engineer shipped his first PR on day two.
The audit
18
Findings, five critical
5
Days to written report
The consolidation
3819K
Lines of code
076%
Test coverage
Track record
6
Audits since 2024
0
Audit reports leaked, ever
Six audits since 2024. What they found, what they said
Real numbers from founders who put their Claude Code codebase in front of an independent audit before the seed lead asked.
18
Per audit, on average
Independent audit was the document our seed lead asked for. Without it, no round. With it, term sheet in three weeks.
Three ways to start. The audit fee is fixed.
Everything past the audit is line-itemed. You decide on day six. No commitment to fix with us.
5-day audit
£8K fixed. A 30-page written Claude Code production review. You walk away with it whatever you decide next.
- OWASP-grade pen test
- Architecture + scale model
- SOC-2 + DPA pack
- No commitment to fix with us
Fix sprint
£18K to £30K total. We fix the critical findings. You keep Claude Code for the rest. Behind-flag deploy, zero customer-facing downtime.
- Audit plus four critical fixes
- Idempotent billing
- Auth + RLS hardened
- Audit log on every mutation
Rebuild
£28K to £60K total. Consolidation on MERN + AWS. Same Claude Code UI, one defensible spine. Zero-downtime cutover.
- Same UI, new spine
- Acquirer-ready ADRs
- 30-day walk-away both ways
- IP assigns on every commit
“Independent audit was the document our seed lead asked for. Without it, no round. With it, term sheet in three weeks.” Tom B. · Co-founder, UK marketplace
What founders actually ask about the audit
Pain-first, soft-second.
The honest answer: probably not yet, and that’s normal. Across six Claude Code 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. Claude Code is a brilliant builder. It isn’t a security platform. The 5-day Claude Code 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 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. An OWASP-grade pen test against your live Claude Code 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 Claude Code production review 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.
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, a third use us for the critical fixes only, and a third move to a full consolidation. All three paths are fine. You decide on day six.
For most cases, yes. The Claude Code 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 to 12 week paperwork phase; we hand you the path.
Yes, before anything else. NDA signed inside 30 minutes via DocuSign. Mutual NDA template ready. We only need read-only repo access for the audit, never write access. Findings are encrypted at rest, accessible only to the four engineers on your project, and destroyed 90 days after handover unless you request longer retention.
Claude Code is the builder. We’re an independent Claude Code consultant. The audit you get from us is the one your acquirer’s CTO trusts because it isn’t coming from the company that built the tool. The platform’s own checks are useful inside the platform. 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. Founders who run the Claude Code 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
The surface you hand over.
claude code rescue, in context — the dashboards, flows and components your team actually ships, reviews and maintains.
One paragraph. That’s it.
Tell us the Claude Code 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. The audit starts that morning.
- Fri
30-page report.
Severity-ranked findings, sample code, effort in GBP and days.