Codebase rescue
When the Cursor project gets away from you
AI editors like Cursor, Claude Code and Windsurf are extraordinary force multipliers, and they're a permanent part of how good teams work now — we use them ourselves, every day. They also make it very easy to accumulate a lot of code very quickly. If nobody was reviewing it as it arrived, there's a point where the codebase stops being an asset and starts being a liability.
$495 fixed price · written report within 3 business days · no obligation to continue
In short
PixelApps reviews and stabilises codebases built with AI editors like Cursor, Claude Code and Windsurf. We find the security problems, remove the duplication, add tests and CI, and give you a codebase a team can safely work in. A $495 fixed-price audit gives you a written report within three business days.
Sound familiar?
If you recognise two or three of these, an audit will pay for itself.
Nobody can say what the code does
There's a lot of it, it broadly works, and no single person could explain the flow through it end to end.
The same logic exists in five places
Each session solved a problem locally. Change the rule and you have to find every copy — and one always survives.
There are no tests
So every change is a leap of faith, and confidence gets replaced by not touching things.
Secrets are in the repository
Keys committed at some point in the history, and still there even if a later commit removed them from the current files.
Files have grown enormous
Two-thousand-line components that even the AI now struggles to edit without breaking something adjacent.
Nothing checks anything before it ships
No CI, no type checking in the pipeline, no linting. Errors are discovered by users.
What we actually do
We audit the whole repository
Structure, dependencies, security, duplication, dead code, and the git history — including any secrets buried in it. You get a prioritised list, not a wall of complaints.
We clean up the security debt
Committed secrets rotated and purged, dependencies with known vulnerabilities updated, and access rules checked against what the app actually needs.
We consolidate the duplication
Repeated logic pulled into shared, tested modules. The oversized files get broken into pieces that both humans and AI editors can work on reliably.
We add a safety net
Type checking, linting and tests around the parts that matter most, running automatically in CI so mistakes get caught before deployment rather than after.
We leave it AI-friendly
Clear structure, real documentation, and project conventions written down — so your next Cursor session produces code that fits instead of code that fights.
What it costs
Everything is quoted at a fixed price before it starts. No hourly surprises.
Rescue audit
$495
fixed price
A senior developer reviews your codebase, database and deployment, and sends a written report within 3 business days.
Rescue sprint
$2,500 – $8,000
typical range
We fix what the audit found: security holes closed, the app stabilised, deployment sorted, and the parts that stopped you shipping actually finished.
Ongoing care
$750
from, per month
A monthly retainer: hosting, updates, security patches, backups, monitoring, an agreed block of development time, and a human who answers when something breaks. We also work ad-hoc — just ask.
What the $495 audit includes
- A plain-English summary of what you have and what state it is in
- Security review — database access rules, exposed keys, login and permissions
- A prioritised list of what is broken, what is risky and what is merely untidy
- A fixed-price quote for the work, and an honest view on rebuild vs repair
- The report is yours to keep and take to any developer
When you don't need us
If your team is shipping happily and nothing is on fire, don't spend money on a tidy-up for its own sake — working software beats tidy software. This is worth doing when the codebase has started slowing you down, or when you're about to bring in another developer and want them productive rather than lost.
Send us your app
$495 fixed price. Written report within 3 business days.
Common questions
Not inherently — modern AI editors write good code. The difference is review: a human team accumulates code slowly enough to notice patterns going wrong. AI-assisted work accumulates it fast, so the duplication, sprawl and missing tests that would normally surface over a year can arrive in a fortnight.
Almost never. Most of what we find is fixable incrementally without stopping delivery. The audit will tell you plainly if a rewrite genuinely is the cheaper path, but that's the exception rather than the recommendation.
Yes. We often do the review and the risky refactors while your team keeps shipping features, then hand over conventions and documentation so the improvements hold after we've gone.
Assume they're compromised — git history is permanent unless deliberately rewritten, and a later deletion doesn't remove them. We rotate every affected credential, purge them from history, and add checks that stop it recurring.