Ship & Sleep / Problems we solve
The five ways AI-built apps die.
None of them are exotic. All of them are preventable with the same boring machinery — which is exactly what we run.
- 01Silent downtime
- 02Backups that don't restore
- 03Exposed secrets
- 04Dependency rot
- 05The founder as monitoring system
Silent downtime
The app goes down at night and nobody notices until a customer complains — or stops complaining and leaves. Most AI-built apps ship with zero uptime monitoring.
The fix: uptime checks every minute, error alerting a person actually reads, and a committed first-response time with consequences for us when we miss it.
Backups that don't restore
The most expensive sentence in software: "we have backups" — discovered to be false on the day you need them. A backup that was never restored is a rumor.
The fix: daily backups plus scheduled restore drills — real recoveries, timed and documented in your monthly report. Not a checkbox. A rehearsal.
Exposed secrets
API keys in client code, database credentials in a public repo, admin routes without auth. AI generators produce these constantly, and the app works fine — until someone else finds them first.
The fix: the Health Check hunts exactly this class of finding, and operations keeps secrets in a vault with least-privilege access, logged in your report.
Dependency rot
Every AI-built app freezes its dependencies on day one and starts aging immediately. Six months later, a critical vulnerability meets an app nobody knows how to update safely.
The fix: scheduled patch passes, each verified against your money-and-data paths afterwards — and anything risky proposed in writing first, per our fail-closed default.
The founder as monitoring system
The subtlest failure: the app runs, but only because you check it compulsively — evenings, weekends, holidays. That's not operations, that's anxiety with a dashboard, and it caps everything else you could be building.
The fix: a named engagement lead who carries the pager, a runbook that makes the knowledge transferable, and a monthly report that lets you stop checking. Quiet months are the product.
Which one is yours?
The Health Check finds out which of the five apply to your app — $249 flat, guarantee-backed.
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