Vibe Code Rescue · San Francisco

Vibe Code Rescue
in San Francisco

Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.

A founder ships an MVP in a weekend with Cursor or Claude Code. Six months later we get the email. Stripe is leaking, Supabase is wide open, four auth patterns coexist, every senior who looks at the codebase quits within a week. We rescue this kind of project weekly. The product won the customer. We don't throw the product away. We replace the engine in two weeks, keep the brand, keep the customers, hand back a codebase the next engineer can actually maintain.

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Engagement shape

From

$1,000

Flat price, quoted after 30-min call

Timeline

14 days

First production deploy

Senior engineer, named

Day 1

Code in your GitHub

Retainer, equity, lock-in

How this works

One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.

One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships vibe code rescue that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in San Francisco who need to ship before the next round closes.

The local read

Why vibe code rescue is hard in San Francisco

SF founders compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and every Series B sitting on $200M in dry powder. A senior engineer offer that actually wins here is $400K all-in, plus relocation, plus equity refreshers. At seed stage that's most of the round.

One named engineer with AI agents now does what a four-person team used to. Three-week timelines instead of three months. Flat-price quote in 24 hours after a discovery call. Pacific Time, overlap with your Sand Hill investors and your early customers in the same window. Code in your GitHub from commit one.

Hiring one senior engineer here is a ~$310K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our vibe code rescue engagement starts at $1,000 with a first deploy in 14 days.

Did you know · San Francisco

Y Combinator has funded over 5,000 startups since 2005. Combined valuation is north of $600B.

Time zone

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Pacific Time. You can DM us at 9am and get a response at 9:01am.

Sectors in San Francisco

AI and ML infrastructureDeveloper toolsConsumer appsClimate techFintech

Stack we use

Next.jsCursor / Claude CodeSupabase / PostgresStripeClerk / Auth.jsSentry

What you actually get

Concrete deliverables.
Live in 14 days.

No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.

48-hour written audit covering auth, RLS, secrets, money handling, observability

Foundation week: key rotation, RLS lockdown, CI with real test suite, Sentry + logs

Migration: production cutover with zero downtime, old stack running in parallel for 72 hours

Documented handoff so the next engineer doesn't quit on day one

Why us

Why founders in San Francisco pick us for this

We have rescued ten vibe-coded apps this year — same seven defects every time

We don't rebuild from scratch — roughly 60 percent of your existing code stays untouched

We leave the codebase set up for Claude Code / Cursor with guardrails, not stripped of them

Flat-price quote in 48 hours after the audit, no scope-creep negotiations

Vibe Code Rescue we've shipped

Founders we shipped vibe code rescue with

Real founders, real product, real testimonials. The kind of vibe code rescue work we'd do for you in San Francisco.

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FAQ

Common questions about vibe code rescue
in San Francisco

How fast can you start the rescue?

We can clone and audit your repository today. Written 48-hour audit comes back inside two business days. Active rescue work usually starts within seven days of the audit.

Do you keep my existing code?

Mostly yes. Roughly 60 percent of the codebase stays — UI, brand, anything stateless. We rewrite 30 percent (auth, payments, multi-tenant boundaries, AI tool connections). We delete 10 percent (dead routes, ghost integrations).

Can I still use Cursor or Claude Code after the rescue?

Yes, and we leave the codebase set up for that. We add typed schemas, critical-path tests, and a CLAUDE.md that scopes the agent to safe areas. Most founders ship features twice as fast post-rescue because every change runs through CI.

What if my Stripe or Supabase keys are leaked?

We rotate every key inside the first 48 hours — Stripe, Supabase, OpenAI, anything we find. We assume old values are in someone's Docker cache or git history. Rotation is non-negotiable.

How much does a rescue cost?

Audits start at $1K (often free for warm leads). A focused rescue is $1K–$25K. The lower end covers small repos with a tight scope; the upper end is a full two-week engagement with two engineers. Flat-price quote after the audit.

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