Production engineering for AI-built apps
AI coding tools got you to a working app in a weekend. We're the team that gets it ready for real users — auditing, fixing, securing, and deploying applications built with Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt, Windsurf, and Replit.
Why Cedar Frontier exists
A new generation of founders and builders is shipping real products by describing them to an AI instead of writing every line by hand. It works — until the app needs to survive contact with paying customers, and the gaps that don't show up in a demo start showing up in production: hardcoded credentials committed to version control, database ports open to the internet, no test coverage on the code path that handles payments.
Those aren't AI-specific mistakes. They're the same things a senior engineer catches in code review — the review most AI-built projects never get, because there's no team around them yet to do it.
Cedar Frontier is that review. We're engineers who audit, harden, and deploy applications for production, regardless of how the first version got built. You bring the app; we bring the production engineering rigor it needs before it's carrying real users and real revenue.
How we work
Every engagement follows the same four stages, in this order — each one depends on what the last one found.
Audit
We go through your codebase the way a senior engineer would before a launch — security, architecture, test coverage, and the shortcuts that got you to a working demo.
Fix
Findings turn into a prioritized, scoped plan. We fix what's broken and refactor what won't hold up under real traffic, not just what's easiest to change.
Secure
Hardcoded credentials, open ports, missing auth checks — the issues that don't show up in a demo but show up in an incident report. We close them before they're a problem.
Deploy
Docker, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring. We get the app running in production the way it should — repeatable, observable, and able to survive a redeploy.
AI-built isn't the problem
Tools like Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt, Windsurf, and Replit get you to a working product fast. That's a real advantage. Our job is closing the gap between working and production-ready — not second-guessing how you got there.
We work in your codebase, not around it
Every recommendation ships as a real change against your actual repository — reviewed, scoped, and estimated like any other engineering work — not a generic checklist handed back to you.