AI app rescue · Lovable · Bolt.new · Cursor · Replit · v0
You described the product, the tool built it, and the demo was genuinely impressive. Then you tried to deploy it, connect a real payment, or let a stranger log in. NeuroLabs adopts AI-generated websites and applications: we finish them, secure them, ship them — and if you want, we keep running them. Built in PEI, working with founders worldwide.
Where these builds come from
AI builders produce real code very quickly, and that is genuinely useful. What they do not produce is an owner. There is no one who chose the dependencies, decided how identity works, or planned what happens the first time something fails at three in the morning.
That gap is the whole job. We are not here to tell you that using an AI builder was a mistake; we are here to turn what it produced into something you can safely run a business on.
01 / Failure modesThe same six problems, over and over
None of this is exotic. If you recognise three or more of these in your build, the app is not broken in an unusual way — it is broken in the ordinary way, which is good news for the quote.
The builder’s preview is a controlled environment with the network, the secrets and the build step already arranged. Move the same code to real hosting and everything the preview quietly supplied has to be supplied for real.
Placeholder keys, half-configured services, and a config file full of names that were never pointed at an account. It looks wired up because the code references the variable; nothing is on the other end of it.
A login screen that checks the password in the browser, a role stored where the user can edit it, or a session that any visitor can mint. It gates the interface without gating the data, which is the part that matters.
Secrets shipped to the client where anyone can read them, and database rules left wide open so any visitor can read or write any row. Both are invisible from the front end and both are a bill waiting to arrive.
The happy path is fully built and nothing else is. A failed request shows a blank screen, a bad input corrupts a record, and there is no snapshot to roll back to because backups were never part of the prompt.
Duplicated logic, dead files, dependencies nobody chose, and not one line explaining why any of it is that way. The next developer — including you — starts from zero every single time.
02 / EngagementsTwo ways in, both quoted flat
Both start the same way: a paid, time-boxed diagnosis that establishes what the build actually is, followed by a firm flat written quote before anyone touches the code. No fixed bids on unknowns.
We read the generated code properly: what it does, what it only pretends to do, where the secrets are, how the data is exposed, and what is missing between here and production. You get a written report you keep regardless of what you decide next.
Finish it, secure it, deploy it. The unfinished features get built, the security holes get closed, real error handling and backups go in, and the app goes live on hosting you own — with documentation good enough for the next person to pick it up cold.
We keep it. Hosting, monitoring, updates and changes stay with NeuroLabs, so the application has an actual maintainer instead of a hope. This is the same practice we use on our own six live products — the on-call is not theoretical.
Why us
NeuroLabs runs six live web products of its own, including ScamCallCheck, built on 280,000+ US FTC and FCC complaint records, and VINscan, a bilingual VIN decoder using Transport Canada and US NHTSA data. Real traffic, real data, real consequences when something breaks — which is where the checklist on this page came from.
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03 / QuestionsAI app rescue, answered
Yes. Lovable, Bolt.new, Cursor, Replit, v0, Base44 and Windsurf builds are exactly what this service is for. The generated code is usually real code — it just has no owner, no documentation and no operational plan behind it. We read what is actually there, tell you what it does versus what you were told it does, and either finish it or take it over.
Because the preview is a friendly environment and the internet is not. The usual causes are environment variables that point at nothing outside the builder, services that were mocked rather than connected, build steps that only ever ran on the platform, and error handling that never existed because nothing ever failed in the demo. These are findable and fixable — they are just not visible from inside the preview pane.
Not inherently, but the common failure modes repeat: API keys shipped to the browser, database rules left open so any visitor can read or write any row, a login screen that checks nothing on the server, and dependencies nobody chose or reviewed. The generator is optimising for something that looks finished, not for something safe to leave running unattended. We check all of it during the diagnosis.
Harden and ship is a finite project: we finish the missing pieces, close the security holes, add real error handling and backups, deploy it properly, document it, and hand it back to you or your team. Adopt and run means we keep it afterward — hosting, monitoring, updates and changes stay with us, so the app has a maintainer instead of a hope.
Only where rewriting is genuinely cheaper than repairing, and we will show you the reasoning before we do it. Plenty of generated code is fine and gets kept. The parts that usually get replaced are the ones handling money, identity, data access and deployment, because those are the parts where guessing is expensive.
It is quoted flat and in writing after the paid, time-boxed diagnosis — no fixed bids on unknowns, because an inherited codebase cannot be honestly priced sight-unseen. New builds start from $1,500 CAD. There is no hourly meter and no change-order surcharge on work we already quoted.
Tell us which tool built it, what it is supposed to do, and where it stopped cooperating. You will get a direct reply from the people who would do the work.