Rescue Audits for creator businesses

Your creator app works. Until it doesn't.

A founder-CTO reviews your build and tells you exactly what's broken, what's risky, and what to fix first — in plain English. Fixed price. 72 hours. No rebuild agenda. For platforms, membership sites, storefronts and tools built fast — by AI, a freelancer, or a launch scramble — now carrying real users and real money.

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hours to your report
£97
to start — a Risk Snapshot
£0
if nothing's worth fixing
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CTO, no juniors, no agency

Sound familiar?

You shipped fast. Now you can't sleep on it.

AI build tools get a creator product live in days. The problem shows up later — when there are paying members, card payments, and creator payouts running through code written to demo, not to last.

"Is it even secure?"

No idea whether customer data, logins or Stripe keys are safe — and nobody impartial has ever looked.

"It breaks and I don't know why"

Things fail in production that worked in the demo. Every fix feels like it might break something else.

"The developer's gone"

The freelancer, or the AI session that built it, has moved on. You own code you can't read.

"Do I need to rebuild?"

Everyone who looks wants to sell you a rebuild. You just want to know how bad it actually is.

Paul, founder-CTO of Dargavel AI

Who's signing your report

A CTO who built the exact stack you're running.

I'm Paul — founder-CTO of Dargavel AI, with enterprise experience at Virgin Money, NHS Scotland and the Metropolitan Police. I don't just audit creator tech; I build it — commercial products end-to-end: storefronts, print-on-demand pipelines, Stripe billing, custom-domain systems, multi-region fulfilment and AI tooling on top.

So when I open your app, I'm not on unfamiliar ground. I've built these systems — and secured them at bank and public-sector scale — which is exactly why I know where they crack.

  • Enterprise-grade experience: Virgin Money, NHS Scotland, Metropolitan Police
  • Built Trender — a live creator-commerce SaaS (AI trend engine, merch studio, storefronts + Shopify, Stripe billing, US/UK fulfilment)
  • Built Hyper (influencer-management platform) & Aura (AI video-to-TikTok app)
  • I review your code for what threatens the business — not to nitpick
Live proof, not a portfolio of mockups

I've made these mistakes in production — and fixed them.

Trender is a complete commercial SaaS I built and run end-to-end: AI trend engine, merch design studio, hosted storefronts + Shopify, Stripe billing, US/UK fulfilment. That's what you're buying — a CTO who's shipped the exact systems your app is made of.

See Trender live ↗
Trender dashboardDashboard + AI assistant
Trender AI merch studioAI merch studio
Trender store designerNo-code store designer
Live Trender storefrontLive storefront
See exactly what you get

Read a real Rescue Audit before you spend a penny.

A genuine audit of a live (broken) codebase — it found a Stripe secret key exposed in the browser, a login anyone could walk past, and prices the customer could edit before paying. See how each issue is diagnosed, prioritised and explained in plain English.

Download the sample (PDF) →

Fixed pricing

Pick the depth you need. No hourly rates, no scope creep.

Fixed prices, quoted before I start. Plain-English report. If I find nothing worth fixing, you don't pay.

Tier 1

Risk Snapshot

£97

The fast pass. Are there any five-alarm fires in here? Find out in 48 hours.

  • Scan for the critical killers — exposed keys, auth holes, payment flaws
  • Short, prioritised red-flag list
  • Plain-English "how bad is it" verdict
  • 48-hour turnaround
Get the snapshot
Tier 2

Rescue Audit

£450

The full picture — every risk found, ranked, and explained, with a call to walk you through it.

  • Full technical & security review
  • CTO-signed report (summary + technical appendix)
  • Prioritised fix roadmap: do-now / do-soon / ignore
  • 30-min walkthrough call
  • 72-hour turnaround
Book the audit
Tier 3

Rescue Sprint

£1,200

"This is my business and it's on fire." Audited and stabilised — done for you.

  • Full Rescue Audit, plus:
  • All critical & high fixes implemented
  • Backups & basic monitoring put in place
  • Handover docs any developer can use
Book the sprint
✓

The honest guarantee: if the audit finds nothing worth fixing, you don't pay. I've never opened a fast-built creator app that was genuinely clean — but if yours is the first, you owe me nothing. That's how confident I am, and how little I'm interested in inventing problems to sell you a rebuild.

How it works

No committees. No jargon. No rebuild agenda.

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Send me access

A repo link or export, and the live app. A one-line intake tells me what worries you most.

Day 0
02

I dig in

Security, payments, data & backups, performance, architecture, dependency risk — the whole build, by a human CTO.

Days 1–2
03

You get the verdict

A plain-English report, a prioritised roadmap (do-now / do-soon / ignore), and a 30-min walkthrough call.

Day 3
04

Fix it — your way

Do it yourself from the roadmap, hand it to your dev, or have me implement the critical items. Your call.

After

Straight answers

Questions you're probably asking

Will you just tell me to rebuild it?

No — and that's the point. My roadmap explicitly flags what to ignore. Most fast-built apps need a few days of targeted fixes, not a rebuild. If I ever recommend a bigger piece of work, it'll be because the evidence forces it — and I'll show you that evidence.

My app was built with AI (Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, v0…). Can you audit that?

Yes — it's the core of what I do, and I build with these tools myself. AI-built apps share a predictable set of issues: exposed keys, missing server-side checks, client-trusted logic. I know the patterns and exactly where to look.

What do you need from me to start?

Access to the code (a repo link or export) and, ideally, a look at the live app. There's a short intake below. Turnaround is 72 hours from access.

I'm not technical. Will I understand the report?

Yes. The executive summary is written for a business owner, in plain English, ranked by what actually threatens your business. The technical detail sits in an appendix for whoever does the fixing.

Is my code and data kept confidential?

Completely. Your code and findings are never shared, nothing of yours is used to train anything, and I'm happy to sign an NDA before you send a single file.

What if I need the fixes done, not just found?

That's the Audit + Stabilise and Rescue Sprint tiers — I implement the critical items for you and hand back a stable app with documentation.

Find out what's actually broken.

Tell me about your app. I'll confirm fit within one business day and send the payment link and access steps. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you that too.

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