Founding rate: $1,250 for our first 5 audits · then $2,500
A fixed-price, 5-day audit of your code, inference costs, churn and unit economics, run by our founder-engineer. You leave with a ranked fix list, and your top fixes already written as tickets your team or AI agents can start on Monday.
Ilyes, founder-engineer. Runs every audit personally.
Ilyes, founder-engineer. Runs every audit personally.// THE AI SURVIVAL AUDIT · 5 BUSINESS DAYS
$1,250then $2,500
Founding rate for our first 5 audits.
- PDF report: 1-page summary + evidence
- Scorecard across the 7 areas
- Ranked fix list with impact and effort
- 90-day order: now, next, later
- Up to 5 issue-ready tickets
- 60-minute walkthrough call
Not worth it? Full refund, and you keep the report.
See exactly what we check →// WHAT CLIENTS SAY
“He delivered the project better than our original expectation. … His communication and the delivery of the project was excellent.”
“Our project was tough … he never quit and continued to work hard finding out of the box solutions to every problem we faced.”
// Clients on our SaaS work, the foundation our AI services build on. Full reviews below.
// 01 THE SHIFT
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// THE WRAPPER PROBLEM
If your product is a prompt and a UI on top of someone else’s model, every model release is a threat. The model gets cheaper and better, your edge gets thinner, and cheap plans churn first.
// THE FEATURE GAP
If you run a traditional SaaS, competitors are shipping AI while you’re still paying down debt. A chat bubble won’t close that gap. AI built into the workflow your users already run will.
// THE WAY THROUGH
It’s survivable. Products that own their data, sit inside a real workflow, and keep inference costs in check get stronger as models improve. That’s what we build, without a rewrite.
Most AI products don’t lose to the model. They lose on the SaaS around it: cheap plans that churn, inference nobody metered, billing that can’t charge for usage.
// 02 THE AUDIT
The AI Survival Audit$1,250then $2,500
A 5-business-day diagnostic of your micro-SaaS. Not a template: a real read of your code, your costs, and your churn.
// WE ANALYZE 7 AREAS
// YOU GET
- A PDF report: a one-page summary, then every finding with its evidence
- A scorecard: each of the 7 areas scored, with the evidence behind it
- A ranked fix list: impact, effort and estimated return for every fix
- A 90-day order: what to fix now, next and later
- Issue-ready tickets for up to 5 “fix first” items, with acceptance criteria and tests, so your developers or AI agents can start without us
- A 60-minute walkthrough call
// TIMELINE
Kickoff call
We agree on scope and you send access. The 5 business days start once access works.
5 business days
We read the code, the costs, and the churn.
Delivery call
We walk you through the report, the fix list and the tickets.
// PRICE
$1,250then $2,500
Founding audits: $1,250 for our first 5.
We’re new to AI client work, and we’d rather earn proof than invent it. In return for the founding rate, we ask for an honest review after the walkthrough, whatever you think, and permission to publish an anonymised write-up. Your product name only goes in if you say yes.
After the fifth paid audit, the audit is $2,500.
// THE GUARANTEE
If it isn’t worth it, you don’t pay.
If you don’t think the audit was worth what you paid, tell us on the walkthrough call and we’ll refund you in full. You keep the report.
// SAFE TO SAY YES
We only run audits after a discovery call. We won’t take your money if we’re not confident we can help.
Book a discovery call first// 03 WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
You’ll work with the engineer who does the work.
Since 2022 we’ve shipped the parts of SaaS that can’t break: Stripe billing and auth for an API product, a multi-tenant social media platform, Cloudflare Workers at the edge, mostly in TypeScript, Next.js and Postgres. Now we’re bringing that experience to AI products, starting with our own: Zedkira Estimate, a vertical AI tool for construction tenders.
“I run every audit personally and I’m on every call. No account managers, no hand-offs to someone you haven’t met.”
// THE TEAM
Plus 3 developers. Every change is reviewed by an engineer before it ships.
AI-native, not AI-hype
AI writes many of our first drafts, so we’ve built strict guardrails around it. Every change starts from a written issue, gets reproduced before it’s fixed, passes automated checks, and is reviewed by an engineer before it merges. We bring the same discipline to the AI we build into your product.
Clarity before code
Every engagement starts with a concrete map: risks, quick wins, and execution order.
We fix what’s costly
We keep what works, fix what costs you money, and ship improvements every week. No rewrites.
// 05 TRACK RECORD
Before AI, we shipped the parts
of SaaS that can’t break.
Most AI products don’t lose to the model. They lose on billing, data, security and the workflow around it. That’s the work below: shipped for clients, and reviewed by them. Each card says what it means for an AI product.
Also: a penetration test across four e-commerce sites, with a full report, then the fixes. The same security lens is part of every audit.
// WHAT’S NEW FOR US
- New
- Client AI engagements. Our first five are founding clients.
- Not new
- Billing, auth, data isolation, security, production SaaS. Reviewed above.
- How we cover it
- We build and measure our own AI product (below), and every audit comes with a refund guarantee.
// 05 OUR OWN AI PRODUCT
We’re building vertical AI ourselves. Here’s what it’s taught us.
Zedkira Estimate helps construction estimators answer tenders. Today it qualifies a tender with a sourced go / no-go analysis and drafts the structure of the proposed DPGF. Quantities and pricing come next. It’s our own product, not a client project, and we measure it the way we’d measure yours.
In development · not yet sold
// THE FOUR RULES WE BUILD BY
We set dates after we’ve read the code.
Discovery call
You tell us what’s stuck. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and what to do instead if we can’t.
AI Survival Audit
A real read of your code, costs, and churn across 7 areas. You get a PDF report, a scorecard, a ranked fix list, a 90-day order and up to 5 issue-ready tickets, walked through on a 60-minute call.
90-Day Sprint
We work through the roadmap, highest impact first, for one price agreed before we start. Changes ship to production with tests and monitoring.
Hand-off
The code is documented and tested, so your team can own it. Keep going on the next roadmap, or take it from here.
The 90-Day Sprint
From $5,000/month
Most sprints run $5k–$12k/month, depending on what the roadmap needs. One price for 90 days, agreed in writing before you start. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
- We work the roadmap top-down, highest-impact first
- Production deploys with tests and monitoring, plus a written update every week
- Your audit fee is credited to month one if you start within 30 days
- Stop after any month with 14 days’ notice. You keep everything shipped.
- Day 90: a documented hand-off, or a new roadmap if you want to keep going
Under ~$5k MRR? The audit is usually the right buy. Its fix list and tickets are written so your team or your AI agents can run them.
Vertical AI builds are bigger projects. They start with the same call, then the audit maps the workflow and the data before any code is written.
// 07 WHERE AUDITS POINT
Where audits usually point.
Most roadmaps land on one of three tracks. If one sounds like you, pick it when you book: it shapes the call.
01 · RESCUE A WRAPPER
Turn a thin wrapper into a product worth keeping.
For you if your AI product has paying users, but churn is high, margins are shrinking, or a model update just made your core feature free.
- Architecture that captures proprietary data from real usage
- Cost controls: model routing, caching, and usage limits
- Feedback loops that make the product better the more it’s used
02 · ADD AI TO A WORKING SAAS
Add AI that pays back, not a chat bubble.
For you if you have a working SaaS with real customers, and your team is too busy keeping the lights on to add AI properly.
- AI inside your existing workflows, not a separate chat tab
- A data flywheel: usage that improves the feature over time
- Clean code your team owns. No rewrite, no feature freeze
03 · BUILD VERTICAL AI
Build AI for one industry, and own the workflow.
For you if you have domain expertise and access to customers or data in your industry. You don’t need to be technical — that’s our part.
- Workflow and data mapping before any code is written
- An MVP with AI in the core workflow, taken to production
- Evaluations, so quality is measured, not guessed
// 08 WHO WE WORK WITH
Built for small teams. Honest about the rest.
// A GOOD FIT IF…
- You’re a solo founder or a team of 2–10.
- You’re post-revenue — roughly $1k–$50k MRR — and growth has stalled.
- Your AI wrapper is losing users, or your SaaS needs AI to keep up.
- You know an industry inside out and want to build AI for it, even without a technical background.
- You’re preparing to sell — on Acquire.com or elsewhere — and want a codebase that holds up in due diligence.
- Under $5k MRR: the audit is for you; the sprint probably isn’t yet.
// NOT THE RIGHT FIT IF…
- You have 10+ employees. You can probably afford an in-house team.
- You’re pre-product, with no domain expertise or access to customers in your industry.
- You want the cheapest option. We’re not it, and we’ll say so on the first call.
- You’re building a horizontal AI wrapper with no vertical focus. We can’t help you out-compete OpenAI.
- You’re looking for a technical co-founder, not a build partner.
- Your stack is WordPress, legacy or PHP.
// 09 FAQ