VOL_01 / 2026 — FOR STARTUPS Ship insurance for founders

For founders shipping AI features fast.

You're moving quickly. Claude or Cursor wrote half your codebase. You don't have a CTO yet. You don't want a 12-week consulting engagement. You want someone senior to look at the thing before it ships and tell you what's going to break.

WEDGE OFFERPre-launch ship review
TIMELINE3–5 days
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The Pain

You shipped fast. Now what's going to bite you?

Vibe-coded apps and AI-assisted MVPs work — until they don't. The most common ways AI-assisted code breaks in production are predictable, but you have to know to look for them.

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Secrets in commits

API keys, .env files, database credentials sitting in your git history. Almost every AI-assisted repo we look at has at least one. By the time you notice, it's been crawled.

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Auth that looks real

Authentication that works in dev but has obvious bypasses, missing CSRF, weak password handling, or sessions that never expire. The AI generated something that compiles. It doesn't mean it secures.

[ 03 ]

Cost runaway

No token limits, no caching, no rate limits, no model fallback. One viral moment and your OpenAI bill has four extra zeros. Your Stripe trial users have already cost you $4K.

[ 04 ]

Prompts that leak

System prompts that can be exfiltrated. User-controlled inputs that can override behavior. RAG retrieval that returns other users' data. Not theoretical — happens within a week of going live.

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The Wedge Offer

Pre-Launch Ship Review. Three to five days.

A senior engineer reads your codebase against a 30-point checklist before you ship. Categorized findings (blocker / serious / minor / nice-to-have) with file/line references and remediation guidance. One 60-minute walkthrough call. Optional 2-week Slack follow-up window.

01

Intake

30-min call + questionnaire. What is this, who uses it, what's the worst case if something breaks.

Day 1
02

Code review

Senior engineer reads the codebase against the checklist. Auth, secrets, validation, prompt injection surface, eval coverage, cost guardrails, error handling, dependencies.

Days 2–3
03

Findings

Severity-categorized findings report with file/line refs and remediation guidance. Pre-launch checklist confirming what was checked.

Day 4
04

Walkthrough

60-min findings call. We walk you through what to fix, in what order, and how. Optional 2-week Slack window for clarifying questions.

Day 5
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Other Things We Do for Startups

Smaller engagements. Same senior reviewers.

Most startups don't need a 12-week engagement. They need a specific thing reviewed by someone senior, fast.

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The Subscription

"Call a Human" hotline. For when you're stuck and don't have a senior dev to ping.

Three tiers. Cancel anytime. The point isn't to replace your team — it's to give you a senior reviewer on call when something feels wrong and you want a second pair of eyes.

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Office Hours

Pricing on request
  • ↗ Email response next business day
  • ↗ Up to 5 questions per month
  • ↗ Access to template library
  • ↗ Cancel anytime
MOST CHOSEN
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Slack Access

Pricing on request
  • ↗ Shared Slack channel · senior on call
  • ↗ Same-day response in business hours
  • ↗ Unlimited questions
  • ↗ One 30-min call per month included
  • ↗ Cancel anytime
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Ship Insurance

Pricing on request
  • ↗ Everything in Slack Access
  • ↗ One ship review per month
  • ↗ Quarterly architecture check-in
  • ↗ Priority response on incidents
  • ↗ Annual contract
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What We Don't Do

The honesty section. So you don't book the wrong thing.

A few things we deliberately don't offer, so you can save yourself a call.

Ship the thing. And don't lose sleep about it.

Book a ship review, or sign up for the monthly hotline. If you're not sure which you need, the call is free.