Make your Claude Code project production-ready
Claude Code writes genuinely good code, and it writes a lot of it. What it does not do on its own is own the operational surface: environments, pipelines, monitoring, and the decisions that only make sense with production traffic in view.
No deployment pipeline at all - production is whatever was last copied up by hand, with no rollback.
- Production Check
- Free, 3–5 days
- Typical engagement
- 2–4 weeks
- Hardening from
- $2,000, fixed scope
Where Claude Code apps break in production
What actually goes wrong, and why you would not have spotted it yourself. These are the findings we file most often, not a generic checklist.
- Finding 01
The same bug comes back a month after you fixed it
Sessions of rapid iteration leave real inconsistencies: three ways to fetch data, two auth patterns, and duplicated logic that drifts apart.
Fast-moving architecture
- Finding 02
The tests pass and still miss the dangerous case
Generated tests tend to cover what the code does rather than what it must never do.
Tests that assert the happy path
- Finding 03
One person knows how to ship, and there is no way back
The app runs locally. There is no pipeline, no staging environment, no rollback, and no one has ever practised a bad deploy.
No deployment story
- Finding 04
Code you never wrote, with holes you never saw
Packages added quickly during a session, some unmaintained, some carrying known advisories.
Unreviewed dependencies
The Claude Code fix list
The code is usually better than people expect. What is missing is everything that only matters once someone else depends on it: environments, checks, alerts, and tests that assert what must never happen.
- Consolidate patterns and remove duplicated logic where it actually costs you
- Add tests around the invariants that matter: authorization, money, and data integrity
- Stand up CI/CD with preview environments and one-command rollback
- Audit and pin dependencies, then automate advisory monitoring
- Add error tracking, structured logging, and uptime monitoring
- Deploy to production infrastructure sized to your real traffic
A typical Claude Code engagement
Durations from real projects of comparable size. The check is free and everything after it is quoted as fixed scope, so you know the price before we start.
- 1
Production Check
3–5 daysWe read the code the way an attacker and a pager would: authorization paths, money paths, and anything that writes data.
- 2
Invariants under test
Week 1Tests written for the things that must never happen: one user touching another user's data, a charge applied twice, a partial write leaving an inconsistent row.
- 3
Pipeline and environments
Week 2CI runs the suite, type checks and a dependency audit on every branch.
- 4
Ship it
Week 3, then 30 daysA production deploy sized to your real traffic, error tracking, structured logs and uptime alerting routed to a channel you actually read.
What you keep
Everything we produce belongs to you. If you stop working with us tomorrow, nothing stops running and nothing becomes unmaintainable.
Your accounts and your code
The repository, the cloud accounts, the database and the domain stay in your name.
The report, whatever you decide next
Findings, severity ratings, reproduction steps and effort estimates, written for an engineer.
Infrastructure written down
The environment is defined as code in your repository and comes with a runbook: how to deploy, how to roll back, how to restore, and what to check first.
Your agent workflow, with a net
Keep generating. CI checks every branch an agent opens, so speed stops being a trade against safety, and the tests we add are the thing that tells you when a generated change broke an invariant.
Claude Code questions we get asked
If yours is not here, ask it on the call. The first one is free and there is no obligation afterwards.
Yes, in emphasis. AI-written code is usually syntactically clean and idiomatic, so the classic smells are absent.
Localhost has one user, no network latency, no attacker, credentials in a plaintext file, and a database on the same machine that nobody else can reach.
Not for long. The first week adds friction while the tests and CI land.
No. We work on branches in your repository and open pull requests you review and merge.
Built with something else as well?
Most apps we see are two or three of these stacked together - a builder on the front, a hosted database behind it, and an agent editing both.
- Lovable
React and Supabase from a chat prompt. The access rules are the risk.
View playbook - Replit
Agent-built code in a repl. The runtime, the disk and the secrets all change.
View playbook - Base44
Full-stack apps built in-platform. Record-level access and ownership are the questions.
View playbook - Cursor
Code you own, written fast, by an agent holding your credentials.
View playbook - Bolt.new
A full-stack app in an afternoon. The last twenty per cent is auth and data rules.
View playbook - v0
The best-looking React in the category, usually wired to mock data.
View playbook - Bubble
Visual apps at real revenue, hitting workload units and privacy rules.
View playbook - Supabase
Great production database, rarely configured like one.
View playbook - Firebase
Auth and a database in an afternoon. The rules and the bill arrive later.
View playbook
Ready to take your Claude Code app to production?
Book the free Production Check. You get the ranked report and a walkthrough call, with no obligation to continue.