Sixty paying customers signed up in week three. Aarav was about to raise. Then his pre-seed lead asked: “Has anyone independent looked at the code yet?” The honest answer was no. He’d vibe-coded the whole thing. He knew it worked. He didn’t know if it was safe.
Rescue Lovable production audit · security testing · UK
A Lovable production audit for the MVP that’s about to scale.
Built your MVP in Lovable? Before you raise or sign your first enterprise customer, get an independent security audit, architecture review and SOC-2 readiness pack. Then you decide: fix the critical findings, or rebuild the load-bearing parts on MERN + AWS.
24hreply, from a senior
200+projects shipped since 2019
Senioronly, on the spine
Why founders book it
Your Lovable app shipped fast. Now find out what’s missing before someone else does.
An independent Lovable production audit tells you what the tool can’t. Lovable is a brilliant builder. It isn’t a security platform. The gaps are normal. Knowing them before your seed lead does is the point.
“Has anyone independent looked at the code yet?”
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11
Independent Lovable production audits delivered since 2024.
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14
Critical or high-severity findings per codebase. Most founders are surprised.
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5 days
From signed NDA to a written report with a prioritised fix list.
The founder this page is for60 customers · “has anyone looked at the code?” · 14 findings
Aarav shipped in seven days. Lovable did 90% of it. Then his seed lead asked one question.
He didn’t know if it would survive his first enterprise customer’s security questionnaire. He didn’t know if a senior engineer could pick it up without months of archaeology. He didn’t know what an acquirer’s CTO would find on the diligence call.
We ran the 5-day audit. Fourteen findings. Four critical: an anon-key fallback in the auth layer, a double-firing Stripe webhook, a tenant-isolation gap one URL parameter wide, and no audit log on anything. He had the written report on the morning of day six. This page is for founders who’d rather know first.
UK Lovable audit studio · senior-only
Four things in-house reviews and offshore audits can’t hand you
This is what eleven Lovable production audits have hammered into the studio. Not a brochure. The reasons your seed lead trusts the document.
Independent + senior-only
No bench, no juniors. The four engineers signing the audit are the four engineers reading the code. The names on the report are the names on the commits.
A written report, not a slide deck
30 pages. Severity-ranked. Sample code per finding. Effort estimate per fix in GBP and engineering days. Your CTO reads it once and acts.
Fixed £8K, fixed 5 days
No clock-billing. No scope creep. Your CFO sees one number. NDA Monday morning, report Friday afternoon. You can walk away with the report after day six.
Optional fix-or-rebuild path
After the audit, you decide: fix critical findings only, or full production rebuild on MERN + AWS. We quote both. You keep the audit either way.
The finding. What it costs you if it ships.
Patterns we’ve seen across eleven independent audits. None of these are clever attacks. They’re basics Lovable doesn’t enforce, because Lovable is a builder, not a security platform. You can fix them before someone else finds them.
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“The auth wrapper defaults to the public anon key on failure.”
Anyone with a Postgres client reads everything. We hunt the fallback path, prove the read, and hand you the patched auth wrapper plus the RLS policies that should have caught it.
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“Customer-facing pages take an ID straight from the URL.”
One parameter change and customer A sees customer B’s data. We run the IDOR playbook on every customer-scoped endpoint. Server-side workspace checks added. Severity ranked, sample code attached.
- 03
“No idempotency key on the webhook handler.”
Customers charged twice during retry storms. Idempotency keys on every handler. Replay-safe by design. The refunds you were doing by hand stop happening.
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“Who changed what, when, why? No record.”
The SOC-2 audit becomes a six-month panic. An append-only audit log on every mutation. The first control your enterprise prospect asks about, shipped before they ask.
- 05
“Full name, email, billing address loaded into React state.”
Visible in browser dev tools to anyone logged in. We move sensitive fields server-side, scope the API responses, and document the data flow in the report.
- 06
“Customer-list queries take 14 seconds at 5K records.”
At 50K they time out. Today fine, in three months an outage. We model the app at 10× current traffic, find the missing indexes, and put the capacity number in your runbook.
- 07
“Stripe live key in a .env file that’s in Git history.”
Git blame says “Lovable”. The key is exposed regardless. Every credential in the repo and its history surfaced, with a rotation plan and the secret-manager move documented.
- 08
“Login and signup accept unlimited requests.”
Brute force becomes possible. Anomaly detection nonexistent. Per-IP and per-account rate limits on auth endpoints. Anomaly alerts wired. The basics that keep your login page off a botnet’s list.
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“No unit tests. No integration tests. No e2e tests.”
Every refactor is a leap of faith. The report maps the critical paths that need coverage first, with a Playwright e2e skeleton so your next engineer isn’t flying blind.
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“The first enterprise customer asks for a questionnaire and a DPA.”
You have neither. The deal stalls. SOC-2 readiness checklist, signed DPA template, sub-processor list, ROPA. The pack the questionnaire was about to ask for, handed over by default.
Recent client · UK proptech · 2025
Aarav’s Lovable audit,
Aarav’s Lovable audit,
in real numbers
Brief: audit the Lovable-built marketplace before raising pre-seed. We found 14 issues across security, scale, and compliance. He fixed the critical four with us over a 6-week sprint. The seed lead approved the diligence pack on first read.
The audit
14
Findings in 5 days
4
Critical, all resolved
The raise
£750K
Seed, 9 weeks later
1
Read to approve diligence
Track record
11
Lovable audits since 2024
0
Audit reports ever leaked
WHAT SHIPS IN THE WRITTEN AUDIT REPORT
The security + compliance pack your prospect was about to ask for
Every audit ships the same pack. You don’t negotiate for it, it’s in the report. Thirty pages your enterprise prospect, seed lead, and acquirer’s CTO each want to see.
REPORT(01)
OWASP Top-10 penetration test summary
Every category tested. Pass / fail per row. A sample attack and a remediation per failure, run against your live Lovable app.
Live app pen testPass / fail rowsSample attacksRemediation
OWASP Top-10 penetration test summary
REPORT(02)
Auth + session + Supabase RLS review
Token expiry, refresh, Supabase RLS coverage, anon-key handling, MFA path. The auth layer your seed lead’s CTO will test first.
RLS coverageAnon-key handlingMFA pathToken refresh
Auth + session + Supabase RLS review
REPORT(03)
Dependency + secret-scan report
Snyk-style review of every package with CVE mapping. Every credential found in the repo and Git history, with a rotation plan.
CVE mappingSecret scanRotation planGit history
Dependency + secret-scan report
REPORT(04)
SOC-2 readiness + UK GDPR / DPA pack
Every control assessed with an 8-12 week path to ready. Signed DPA template, sub-processor list, data-flow diagram, and ROPA. The questionnaire becomes an afternoon.
SOC-2 gap listDPA templateSub-processor listROPA
SOC-2 readiness + UK GDPR / DPA pack
REPORT(05)
Architecture diagram + load model
A one-page architecture and six suggested ADRs for the next engineer, plus a load model at 10× traffic with the capacity number for your runbook.
Six ADRsLoad modelCapacity numberSeverity-ranked fixes
Architecture diagram + load model
Audit only, audit + fix, or full rebuild.
The audit fee is fixed at £8K. Everything after it is line-itemed and your call. You walk away with the report no matter which you pick.
5-day audit
£8K fixed. The 30-page written report and a prioritised fix list. No commitment to fix with us.
- OWASP-grade pen test
- Architecture + scale model
- SOC-2 + UK GDPR + DPA pack
- Effort estimate per finding
Fix sprint
£18K-30K total. We fix the critical findings. You keep Lovable for the rest. Behind-flag deploy, zero downtime.
- Audit plus the four critical fixes
- Idempotent billing wired
- Auth + Supabase RLS hardened
- Audit log on every mutation
Rebuild
£28K-60K total. Full rebuild on MERN + AWS. Same Lovable UI, new defensible spine, zero-downtime cutover.
- Same UI, new spine
- Acquirer-ready ADRs
- 30-day walk-away both ways
- IP assigns on every commit
What founders actually ask about the audit
Pain-first, soft-second.
The honest answer: probably not yet, and that’s normal. Across eleven Lovable production 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. Lovable is a brilliant builder. It isn’t a security platform. The 5-day 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. An OWASP-grade penetration test against your live Lovable 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.
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, 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. 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.
Lovable is the builder. We’re an independent auditor. 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. Lovable’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 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
What it looks like shipped.
lovable rescue, in context — the dashboards, flows and components your team actually ships, reviews and maintains.
One paragraph. That’s it.
Tell us the Lovable 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.
Mutual NDA inside 30 minutes. Read-only repo access, never write.
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30-page report.
Severity-ranked findings, sample code, SOC-2 pack, fix list with effort.