About
Who is behind the shakedown
I'm Adam. I'm a Principal Software Engineer with over ten years building production software, and I build with AI every day. A shakedown is me going through your whole app, asking the questions that matter before you launch, and handing back fixes your own AI can apply.
Adam
Principal Software Engineer
I'm a Principal Software Engineer with over ten years' experience. I've worked on security at a fintech platform used by major banks, and I was the founding principal engineer on an AI product.
I build with AI every day, the same way you do. I built Vibe Shakedown because I kept seeing the same thing: founders who had built something real, fast, with AI tools, and who were about to launch or raise without knowing whether their app shipped with an exposed key, an open table, or a broken access check.
The tools did their job. The AI builders and editors are good at what they do. The shakedown is the step after them. It's the step you take before real users, payments or investors depend on your app.
Why Adam
Why not every engineer can do a shakedown
A shakedown takes a rare combination of four things. Most engineers have two or three of them. I have all four.
AI-built app knowledge
I know how apps built with AI are put together, and exactly where they tend to break. I know what Lovable, Bolt and v0 generate, and what they leave out.
Full-stack depth
I can check every part of the app, front to back, not just the screens you can see.
Infrastructure understanding
I read the infrastructure your app runs on, not just the code.
Bank-grade security
I hold the shakedown to bank-level security standards, the bar I worked to for years.
That combination is rare. It's why the shakedown is a one-person job, and why it's me who does it.
Why this person
What a shakedown is, and what it is not
What it is
- One principal goes through your whole app, not a panel or a script
- A ranked report with fixes your own AI can apply
- The clean-up that makes your codebase cheaper for AI to keep working in, and ready for your first engineering hire
- A fixed quote, up front, for the size of your app
What it is not
- Not a promise that your app is "secure" or "hack-proof"
- Not a judgment on the tools you used to build it
- Not a retainer or a subscription
- Not a bare price. Every quote is fixed once agreed
Book a shakedown
Send a few details and you'll get a fixed quote for the size of your app, up front.