A new studio. Not new to shipping software.

AI built your app.
We make it
production-ready.

You validated the idea with Lovable, Replit, Cursor, or v0. We do the part AI didn't — the right architecture, security, performance, and scale — so it survives real customers. Senior engineers, 12+ years at Fortune 500 companies. Fixed prices, pay on approval.

The $995 buys a full audit with a written report and roadmap — not a per-task patch. Something actively broken with real users? Say so when you book and we'll point you at the fastest path first.

Senior onlyFixed pricesPay on approval
Remote-first
AI-built apps made production-ready12+ years senior engineering experienceCode audit · from $995 fixedNo juniors · No handoffsFixed prices · Pay on approvalLovable · Replit · Cursor · Bolt · v0Auth · Payments · Security · ScaleYour code, your repo, from day one
Senior engineering
12+ years experience per engineer
Enterprise scale
Products used by millions worldwide
Global experience
50+ products shipped in 15+ countries

Figures reflect our engineers' prior careers — not Yellow Labs company stats. We're a new studio, and we're upfront about it.

The audit · What we check

What your AI
never told you.

AI answers the prompt you wrote. It never asks whether the stack fits your product, whether the auth would survive a hostile user, or what happens at ten times the load. Those are judgment calls — and they're exactly what the audit covers.

High Stack fit

The wrong stack for your product

AI picks technology from how you phrased the prompt, not from what your product needs — “React apps” with no reusable components, back ends built like it’s 2014.

Framework fit · Rebuild vs. repair
Critical Security

Auth, payments, and data left open

Vibe-coded apps routinely ship with broken access control, exposed keys, and payment flows that were never tested against a hostile user.

Auth · Payments · Data exposure
High Architecture

No structure to grow on

Duplicated code, no separation of concerns, no design system. Fine for validating an idea — expensive the moment you add feature two.

Reusability · Separation · Scale
High Performance

Slow in ways you can’t see yet

Unindexed queries, oversized bundles, N+1 calls. Works with 10 test users, falls over with 500 real ones.

Queries · Bundles · Load
High Observability

No way to know it’s broken

No error tracking, no logs, no analytics. Your first alert is a customer leaving. We wire in the instruments production requires.

Errors · Logging · Analytics
Solid Readiness

No path from demo to product

The audit ends with a production-readiness roadmap: what to fix, in what order, at what cost — whether we do the fixing or you do.

Roadmap · Priorities · Cost
For agencies · White-label

Your senior dev arm,
under your brand.

More client work than your team can build — or a client sitting on an AI-built mess? We're the white-label partner that handles it: senior engineers, fixed-scope sprints, invisible to your client.

Why The Yellow Labs

AI writes code.
It doesn't have judgment.

Senior judgment is the product. AI can write code. It cannot tell you the stack is wrong, the auth is unsafe, or the architecture won’t survive success. That takes engineers who have shipped and operated production software for 12+ years — which is what you get here, and all you get here.

The person who audits it hardens it. No account managers, no junior handoffs after the sales call. The senior engineer who reads your code writes the report and leads the sprint that fixes it.

Fixed prices, pay on approval. The audit has a price on it. Sprints are quoted from the audit and paid when you approve the result. Your risk is capped at every step — no open-ended hourly meter.

Your code, your repo, from day one. Everything we write lands in your repository as we write it. Walk away at any point with everything you paid for. No lock-in, no hostage code.

Senior quality at a solo-founder budget. Our cost base isn’t San Francisco’s — so the same seniority US agencies sell costs a fraction here. That’s geography, not a compromise, and we’d rather say it plainly.

The honest questions

What founders ask
before sending code.

My app was built with Lovable / Replit / Cursor / v0. Can you work with it?

Yes — that is exactly what we do. We work with codebases from Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Bolt, v0, and hand-prompted AI builds — the work some founders call vibe code rescue. The audit starts from whatever you have: a repo, an export, or just a live URL. You do not need to explain the code — reading it is our job. And building with AI was not a mistake: it is the fastest way to validate an idea. AI-generated code is not bad code; it is unreviewed code. We are the review.

What exactly does the code audit include?

A written report covering five things: whether the stack your AI chose actually fits your product, security holes (auth, payments, data exposure), architecture and scalability, performance, and a concrete production-readiness roadmap. Fixed price from $995, delivered in 5 business days. If we then quote a hardening sprint, the audit tells you exactly what you are paying to fix and why.

I'm not technical. Will the report make sense to me?

Yes. Every finding is written in plain language first — what it is, what happens if you ignore it, what it costs to fix — with the technical detail underneath for any engineer you show it to. The report is designed to be handed to an investor, a co-founder, or another developer and hold up.

Who actually does the work?

Senior engineers — every one of them with 12+ years building enterprise software, on products used by millions. The engineer who audits your code is the one who hardens it. No juniors, no account managers, no handoffs.

How is a senior audit this affordable?

Because our cost base is not San Francisco’s. We are a remote studio; comparable audits from US and European agencies run two to three times our price for the same scope. Same seniority, different rent. We would rather say that plainly than pretend the price is magic.

Why fixed prices instead of hourly?

Because you are buying an outcome, not our time. The audit is a fixed price. The hardening sprint is a fixed quote based on the audit — and you pay when you approve the result. Your risk is capped at every step, which matters when you have never worked with us before.

What happens after the audit?

Three options, all fine with us: fix the findings yourself with the roadmap, hand the report to another developer, or have us run a production-hardening sprint at a fixed quote. The report is yours either way — no lock-in, and your code lives in your repo from day one.

You’re a new studio. Why trust you with my product?

The studio is new — the people are not. And the engagement is built so trust is earned in steps: a fixed-price audit proves our judgment before you commit to anything bigger, you pay for sprints on approval, and everything we write lands in your repository, so you are never hostage to us.

Our process · 04 steps

From AI build
to real product.

No jargon, no open-ended engagements. Each step has a clear deliverable and a clear price, so you always know where things stand.

STEP 01

Send your code

A repo, an export, or a live URL — plus 15 minutes on what the product should do.

STEP 02

Audit

A senior engineer reads everything. Written report in 5 business days.

STEP 03

Harden

Fixed-quote sprint fixes what the audit found. Pay when you approve.

STEP 04

Ship & grow

Launch with confidence, then add features sprint by sprint.

See the full process
Track record

We ship under
our own name.

Recent client work — like the bilingual website we built for Ashirvad Consultancy, a 32-year-old finance advisory firm — is live and public. And the clearest proof of how we think is the audit itself: a fixed-price report that shows our judgment on your codebase before you commit to anything bigger.

See the work
How we work

Things we
believe — and act on.

The principles our engineers carried out of long careers building production software — applied to every Yellow Labs engagement from day one.

Principle · 01

The senior engineer who scopes your work is the one who does it, working with you directly. No handoffs. No juniors learning on your dime. Every person who touches your product has 12+ years of production software behind them.
Senior craft

Principle · 02

Fixed prices, quoted before we start, paid when you approve the result. Quotes don’t mysteriously grow mid-build. If something has to change, we tell you before invoicing — never after.
Honest pricing

Principle · 03

Boring, proven tech over whatever’s hot this quarter. Code we ship today should still be readable in five years — by us, by you, or by whoever maintains it next.
Built to last
Let's begin

Your app works.
Now make it survive.

Send us your repo or a live URL. We'll reply within 24 hours with whether the audit fits, the exact fixed price, and the delivery date — never a generic sales pitch.

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