Production engineering

Your code
runs.
Now make it
last.

AI tools can write the code. We turn it into something you can ship, scale, and sleep soundly behind. Decades of production experience, built for the age of vibe coding.

api/payments.js
// ✦ what AI generated
app.post('/pay', async (req, res) => {
  const charge = await stripe
    .charges.create({
      amount: req.body.amount,
      currency: 'usd'
    });
  res.json({ charge });
});

// ← no auth
// ← no input validation
// ← no idempotency key
// ← no error handling
// ← no rate limiting
// ← secrets in env? maybe

// ✦ what production needs
app.post('/pay',
  authenticate,
  rateLimit({ max: 10 }),
  validateBody(paySchema),
  async (req, res) => {
    // idempotent, logged,
    // monitored, retryable
  }
);
vibe code
production code
20+ yrs experience
300+ codebases reviewed
0 breaches on our watch
Infrastructure Security hardening Architecture review Database design CI/CD pipelines Performance audit Incident response Code review Compliance Observability Cost optimization
Infrastructure Security hardening Architecture review Database design CI/CD pipelines Performance audit Incident response Code review Compliance Observability Cost optimization

Writing code is 5%
of the job.

AI made writing code trivially easy. But the other 95%—the part that determines whether your product actually survives contact with real users—still requires the kind of hard-won expertise that takes years to develop.

01
Infrastructure & deployment

Choosing cloud providers, configuring servers, containers, DNS, environment management—before your app can exist on the internet, a hundred decisions need to be made correctly.

02
Security you can't see

Auth vulnerabilities, injection attacks, exposed secrets, missing rate limits. AI-generated code looks functional but often has invisible attack surfaces that only appear when it's too late.

03
Architecture that scales

The database schema you choose today shapes everything else. API structure, service boundaries, caching strategies—early decisions compound. Getting them wrong compounds too.

04
Production debugging

Something breaks for a user but not locally. Without proper logging, tracing, and observability tooling, you're flying blind while users churn.

05
Data integrity & migrations

Running schema migrations on a live database. Backups that actually restore. Handling edge cases in user data. The stakes are high—broken code can be redeployed, lost data cannot.

06
Cost & dependency drift

Cloud costs that surprise you at month-end. Libraries with CVEs. APIs that change their contracts. A production app is a living system that needs continuous attention.

From clever
to reliable.

We've spent decades turning prototype-quality code into systems that quietly serve millions of requests without drama. This is that process, applied to your codebase.

01
Triage audit

We read every line. We identify security gaps, architectural red flags, and the silent time bombs that will only surface under load.

02
Architecture design

We redesign what needs to be redesigned. Database schema, API contracts, service boundaries—built to last, not just to run.

03
Hardening sprint

We implement the changes: authentication, validation, observability, CI/CD, secrets management, error handling. Everything a real system needs.

04
Transfer & maintain

Documentation written for humans. A runbook for your team. Ongoing retainer if you want a senior engineer on-call as you keep building.

Built by engineers
who've been
paged at 3am.

20+
Years shipping
300+
Audits done
8
Industries served

We were writing production systems before "vibe coding" was a phrase. We've built infrastructure that handled Black Friday traffic, banking systems that couldn't afford downtime, and healthcare platforms with genuine compliance requirements.

What's new is the volume of code being written by people who've never had to keep it running at scale. AI tools are extraordinary—they've changed who can build software—but they produce code that mirrors what they were trained on, not what your specific production environment actually needs.

We exist to close that gap. Not to gatekeep or judge—to translate between the world of ideas and the world of production.

What we actually
do.

Fixed-scope engagements and ongoing retainers. Whether you need a one-time audit before launch or a senior engineer embedded in your team, we have a structure that fits.

01 / Audit
Production readiness review

A comprehensive codebase audit covering security, architecture, observability, and infrastructure. Delivered as a prioritized report with specific fixes.

02 / Build
Infrastructure buildout

We design and implement your cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and deployment workflows from scratch.

03 / Harden
Security hardening sprint

Authentication, authorization, secrets management, rate limiting, input validation, and dependency auditing—delivered as PRs into your repo.

04 / Embed
Fractional engineering retainer

A senior engineer available on-call as you continue to build. Architecture decisions, code reviews, incident response, and ongoing mentorship.

05 / Rescue
Incident response & recovery

Something is broken in production right now. We respond fast, diagnose, fix, and then build the systems that prevent it from happening again.

What happens after
Shipright gets involved.

"

We had a working app with 200 users and were terrified to scale it. After the audit, we understood exactly why—and had a clear plan. Three months later we're at 40,000 users and haven't paged once.

Priya S. · Founder, HealthTech SaaS
"

I used Claude to build our entire backend. It worked, but I had no idea what I'd gotten wrong. Shipright found seventeen security issues in the first pass. Worth every dollar.

Marcus W. · Solo founder, Fintech
"

Having a senior engineer I can call before making architectural decisions is the difference between building something real and rebuilding it twice. The retainer pays for itself.

Andie L. · CPO, B2B SaaS
Ship it.

Ready to make it
production-grade?

Send us your repo link. We'll do a 30-minute triage call and tell you exactly what needs attention—no commitment required.