Built with AI. Tested against reality.

The Independent Technical Advisor
for Founders Who Can't Read Code

Over 63% of people building with Cursor, Bolt, or Lovable aren't developers. We run a 3-minute business-logic audit on your app to catch broken payments, data leaks, and silent bugs before your users do.

⚡ Instant 180-second analysis 🔒 Zero credit card required 🛡️ 100% Private & Read-only

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📌 Best for products approaching launch, real revenue, or client handoff.

$0.00

Cost for your initial reconciliation audit

73%

AI apps hitting critical bugs by month 6

3 Min

Time to run full repo & live route audit

What Ordinary Code Scanners Miss

AI generators write syntax that looks right, but fails in business execution.

⚠️ Unauthenticated Payment Routes

Users pay via Stripe, but your database webhook never updates their account role—leaving paying users locked out of your product.

⚠️ Multi-Tenant Data Leaks

AI models skip row-level security policy checks, allowing User A to view User B’s private workspace data by tweaking a URL parameter.

⚠️ Runaway API Token Charges

Uncapped LLM API loops without client rate-limiting can accidentally trigger thousands of dollars in OpenAI bill overruns overnight.

⚠️ Promised vs. Delivered Feature Gaps

Your landing page promises "Export PDF," but the backend route returns dummy mock data or logs a silent 500 server error.

Surgical Intelligence

How novaCTO Protects Your Business

We don't just lint code syntax. We cross-reference your revenue stack, user authentication, and business claims.

01. Stripe & Revenue Logic Reconciliation

Checks webhook listeners, idempotency keys, and subscription status synchronization between Stripe/Paddle and Supabase/Firebase.

02. Landing Page vs. Code Audit

Scrapes your marketing landing page, extracts feature claims, and verifies that matching API routes and database schemas exist in your codebase.

03. LLM API & Infrastructure Cost Guard

Scans frontend and backend code for exposed API keys, un-throttled OpenAI endpoints, and memory-leak database queries.

04. Plain-English Executive Summary

Translates deep technical vulnerabilities into clear, actionable bullet points designed for CEOs, non-technical founders, and investors.

Agency Quality Gate

Deliver "Security-Verified" Code to Your Clients

Your clients trust you with their business. Run a free novaCTO audit before handoff, export a white-label report, and prove that payment logic, auth routes, and data policies are bulletproof.

  • Export co-branded white-label audit PDFs for client delivery
  • Standardize quality assurance across all contractor codebases
  • Offload finished projects to our $149/mo Health Shield for ongoing maintenance
Interactive Sample Audit

Plain-English Executive Report

This is exactly what non-technical founders receive after running an audit.

Audit Target: https://github.com/founder/ai-saas-mvp
Scanned on August 15, 2026 • Duration: 2m 14s
CRITICAL RISK SCORE: 82/100

1. Critical: Paying Users Will Lose Access (Stripe Webhook Bug)

The AI created a Stripe Checkout button, but the endpoint receiving transaction notifications (`/api/webhooks/stripe`) lacks account escalation logic. Customers will be charged $29, but their account state will remain "free".

Copy-Paste Fix Prompt for Cursor/Lovable: "Update /api/webhooks/stripe to catch checkout.session.completed events and update user metadata role to 'active_subscriber'."

2. Warning: Exposed OpenAI Key on Client Frontend

Your `NEXT_PUBLIC_OPENAI_API_KEY` is referenced inside `components/Chat.tsx`. Anyone opening Chrome DevTools can copy your key and spend your balance.

Transparent Value

The Gap Between a Cheap Scan and an Unnecessary Rebuild

Business-Logic Audit

For founders getting ready to launch or charge users.

$0 / forever
  • Instant 3-minute plain-English audit report
  • Payment logic & Stripe webhook verification
  • Landing page vs. codebase feature reconciliation
  • Exposed API keys & cost leak detection
  • Clear copy-paste fix prompts for AI tools
Primary Service

Remediation Sprint

Most sprints take 5–7 days. We fix the problems so you don't have to. The gap between a cheap scan and an unnecessary rebuild.

$3,000 – $8,000
  • Focused 5-to-7 day hands-on code repair sprint
  • Webhook, auth, & multi-tenant state logic fix
  • Full architectural refactoring & database migration
  • Complete post-fix re-audit & safety sign-off
  • Direct senior engineering support

Continuous Health Shield

The Health Shield watches every new commit, alerts you to regressions, and gives you direct access to our advisory team for technical decisions.

$149 / month
  • Continuous PR & Code Commit Monitoring
  • Priority threat alerts (Slack / Discord / Email)
  • Direct founder advisory access for technical decisions
  • Weekly business-logic health reports
Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

AI coding tools focus on writing code fast. However, they cannot inspect live runtime transactions or cross-reference your marketing claims against backend routes. novaCTO acts as the independent third-party auditor that verifies your app is safe and working before you charge real money.
That is where our Remediation Sprints ($3,000–$8,000) come in. Our senior engineering team steps in, repairs the structural issues, refactors broken database state, and hands back a launch-ready codebase in 5 to 7 days.
No. Every report is generated specifically for non-technical founders, CEOs, and product owners. We explain risks in plain English (e.g., "Paying customers will lose access") rather than obscure syntax errors.
Yes. Initial audits are 100% read-only and encrypted end-to-end. We never train public AI models on your private repository code or store credentials.