You already have a codebase — built by an agency, a freelancer, a previous team, or with AI coding tools — and you need to know what it is worth before you spend anything on the next step. A Production Readiness Audit is a code audit and technical due diligence pass over the repository you have today: what is there, what is risky, and whether the honest recommendation is to keep it, refactor it, or rebuild it. Fixed price, two days, no code changed.
Step 1
You grant read access to the repository
Step 2
Technical review of the code and the architecture behind it
Step 3
Findings written up as a risk map
Step 4
Keep, refactor or rebuild — a recommendation, with the reasoning behind it
Step 5
A fixed-price proposal for the work that follows
Proof point
10+ years building products and 20+ launches are what this review runs on. The audit is deliberately narrow: it reads the codebase you already have and says what it would take to keep it, refactor it, or rebuild it. No code is changed while it runs.
A code audit is a structured read of software that already exists, done by someone who did not write it. Shipkit's version is the Production Readiness Audit: a review of the code and the architecture behind it, a risk map of what that review found, and a keep / refactor / rebuild recommendation with the reasoning attached. It is a read, not a rewrite — no code is changed during the audit.
The deliverable is the same; the buyer is usually different. Technical due diligence is the term when an investor or an acquirer wants to know what they are buying into. Code audit is the term when the founder who owns the codebase wants to know what they are sitting on. This engagement answers the same question either way: what is in the repository, what is risky about it, and what the realistic options are from here.
Four things: a code and architecture review of the repository, a risk map of what that review found, a keep / refactor / rebuild plan, and a fixed-price proposal for whatever you decide to do next. The price is $490 flat, agreed before the review starts. Code changes, penetration testing and compliance certification are not part of it.
Two days from the moment read access to the repository is granted. That turnaround is what the scope is sized to — it buys a review of a codebase that already exists, not a build.
That is exactly the case it is built for. AI coding tools get a working product in front of users quickly, and the question that follows is always the same: can this carry real traffic, real payments and a second developer, or is it a prototype that has to be replaced? A code audit answers that with a read of the actual repository instead of a guess, and the keep / refactor / rebuild plan tells you which parts survive.
You get the risk map, the plan, and a fixed-price proposal for the work that follows — and the decision is yours. If the recommendation is to rebuild, Shipkit's build engagements start at $14,900 for a Production MVP. If the recommendation is to keep what you have, the audit has done its job and there is nothing further to buy.
Book a free founder call. We'll help you figure out what to build first, what it'll cost, and how fast we can launch it.
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