AI-Built Software Audits
Software that works is not the same as software you can trust.
AI made software cheap to build. It didn't make it safe to launch. We review what your team or your tools built, tell you plainly what will break and what it will cost you, and give you a report you can put in front of your board, your customers or whoever is asking hard questions.
The gap
The check that quietly disappeared.
Commissioning software used to come with review built in. You were paying people who asked awkward questions, pushed back on the brief and refused to ship things they weren't happy with. Building it yourself with AI skips that step completely. Nothing warns you it's missing, and most teams find out the hard way.
- Small Software
- Small Software is software a business builds for itself with AI tools instead of buying or commissioning it. An internal ops tool, a customer portal, a booking system, a marketplace MVP. It's cheap to build, the business owns it outright rather than a vendor, and it usually ships without anyone independent ever looking at it.
45% of AI-generated code samples failed security tests and introduced OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, across 100+ LLMs tested on security-sensitive coding tasks.
Veracode, 2025 GenAI Code Security ReportA scan of 1,645 Lovable-built applications found 170 projects (about 10.3%) exposing user data through unauthenticated Supabase endpoints, including names, phone numbers, payment details and API keys.
Matt Palmer, CVE-2025-48757 disclosureOne in five strategic dealmakers say they have walked away from a deal because of the anticipated impact of AI on the target's business.
Bain & Company, Looking Back at M&A in 2025: Behind the Great ReboundWhat we check
Four things, not just the code.
Security and your data
Who can reach what, how authentication and access control actually behave rather than how they were meant to, what is exposed to the open internet, where your secrets are sitting, and what has been run against your live database.
The build
How it is put together, what it depends on, what is tested and what only looks tested, and what happens the first time it is genuinely busy rather than being demoed.
The product
The journeys your real users take, start to finish, and the points where they get stuck, lost or quietly dropped without anybody noticing.
Commercial readiness
Whether the software can carry the business plan attached to it, and what it will take to get from where it actually is to where you have told people it will be.
How it works
Five steps, about a week.
Scoping call
Half an hour on what the software does, who uses it, and what is keeping you up at night.
NDA, then access
A mutual NDA before we see anything, and a data processing addendum where the review touches live data.
Walkthrough
An hour with whoever built it. The fastest way to understand a system is to watch someone drive it.
The review
Usually about a week. Anything urgent gets flagged the day we find it, not saved up for the report.
Report and handover
Written findings ranked by what they will cost you, and a call to walk you through every one of them.
You don't wait for the report to hear about a live problem.
Why people call us
Usually one of these.
We're about to put real customers on it.
Someone with money wants an outside opinion.
A partner is asking security questions we can't answer.
The person who built it has gone.
We can't tell whether to keep building on this or start again.
Compared
Where we fit, and where we don't.
| Criterion | Free scanner | Fixed-price audit | Hypership |
|---|---|---|---|
| What reads your code | A ruleset | A reviewer, briefly | Engineers who ship this for a living |
| Turnaround | Minutes | 2–5 days | About a week |
| Security | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Product and commercial | No | No | Yes |
| Ranked by business cost | No | Sometimes | Yes |
| Can fix what it finds | No | Rarely | Yes |
Run a free scanner first, ours included. If a security spot-check is genuinely all you need, a cheap fixed-price audit will do the job. Call us when the question is bigger than that.
Recent work
Two of these, most recently.
Security and compliance audit of a funded innovation programme's portal, built on Lovable. Won by competitive tender.
Independent validation review for a Northern Ireland marketplace startup.
Client names withheld under NDA.
FAQ
Common questions.
Let's talk
Tell us what you're building.
One conversation. An honest take. No commitment until it makes sense.
Based in Belfast, working with teams globally