When to Get a Code Audit: Startup, Scale-Up, or Pre-Acquisition
The right moment for a code audit depends on stage. What to audit at seed, at scale-up, and before diligence. And the triggers that override stage.
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Knowledge base
Articles
Everything we know about auditing code: the same lens we apply to yours. 28 articles, newest first.
Why Audit 5
Code Audit vs. Code Review: What's the Difference?
Code reviews inspect this week's diff; audits inspect the whole system. Why having one doesn't mean you have the other, and when you need both.
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7 Warning Signs Your Codebase Needs an Audit
Slipping estimates, one irreplaceable engineer, deploys everyone fears: seven concrete signs it's time for an independent look at your code.
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The Real Cost of Unaudited Code
Unaudited code doesn't cost nothing: it costs velocity, incidents, hiring, and valuation. Here's where the money actually leaks out.
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What Is a Code Audit (and Why Your Business Needs One)
A plain-English guide to code audits: what auditors actually examine, what they find, and when paying attention to your codebase pays off.
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How It Works 5
How Long Does a Code Audit Take?
Realistic timelines for a code audit, what makes them longer or shorter, and how to prepare your repo so the review starts fast.
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Manual vs. Automated Code Audits: Which One You Actually Need
Scanners find pattern-shaped bugs; humans find logic-shaped ones. What each method actually catches, misses, and costs, and how to combine them.
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How to Prepare Your Codebase for an Audit
A practical pre-audit checklist: access, docs, and context that make an audit faster and deeper, and what not to waste time polishing.
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What to Expect in a Code Audit Report
The anatomy of a useful audit report: severity rankings, evidence, business impact, and remediation order, plus the red flags of a bad one.
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How a Professional Code Audit Actually Works, Step by Step
From scoping and read-only access to the findings report: the actual mechanics of a professional code audit, stage by stage, minus the mystique.
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Security 5
Dependency Risk: Auditing Your Third-Party Packages
Most of your app is other people's code. How an audit triages CVEs by reachability, spots abandoned packages, and checks supply-chain hygiene.
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SQL Injection and Input Validation: An Audit Checklist
Where injection still hides in ORM-era codebases (raw queries, dynamic ORDER BY, NoSQL operators), plus the input-validation checklist we audit against.
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Auditing Authentication and Authorization
How an audit reviews authn and authz: session handling, token pitfalls, object-level checks, and the tenant-isolation bugs that hide in plain sight.
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How Exposed Secrets Sneak Into Your Repo (and How Audits Find Them)
The five ways API keys and credentials end up in git, why deleting the file doesn't help, and how an audit hunts them down.
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The Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities a Code Audit Catches
The ten vulnerability classes that show up again and again in real code audits, why scanners miss half of them, and what fixes look like.
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Code Quality 4
Documentation and Maintainability in a Code Audit
What auditors actually look for in documentation and maintainability, and why a missing README costs more than a missing test suite.
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Test Coverage: What Auditors Actually Look For
Why the coverage percentage is the least interesting number in your test suite, and how auditors judge whether tests would actually catch a bug.
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The Code Smells Every Audit Flags
The recurring code smells auditors flag in real codebases (God objects, shotgun surgery, dead code) and which ones actually predict incidents.
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What 'Good Code' Looks Like to an Auditor
Auditors don't grade style. The signals that actually matter: boundaries, consistency, error handling, and code that reveals intent fast.
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Technical Debt 3
The Hidden Debt in AI-Generated Code
AI tools ship working demos fast. Here are the failure modes we keep finding when we audit Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, and v0 codebases.
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How to Prioritize Fixes After a Code Audit
An audit report with 60 findings is useless without an order. Here's a practical framework for deciding what to fix first, later, and never.
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Technical Debt Explained: How Audits Quantify It
Technical debt is a metaphor until someone puts numbers on it. Here's how a code audit turns vague dread into a prioritized, costed list.
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Performance 2
Auditing Your Database Queries for Scale
Most scaling failures are query problems, not database problems. How to audit your queries, indexes, and access patterns before growth does.
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Performance Bottlenecks a Code Audit Reveals
Slow apps rarely have one big problem. Here are the bottlenecks a code audit finds: N+1 queries, bundle bloat, sync-blocking work, and more.
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Guides 3
SonarQube for Code Audits: What It Catches and Misses
What SonarQube catches, what static analysis misses, and how to pair an automated scanner with a manual code audit for real coverage.
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The Free Code Audit Checklist (DIY Before You Book)
A practical self-audit checklist (secrets, auth, dependencies, tests, error handling, performance) you can run on your own codebase this week.
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How to Choose a Code Audit Provider
Not all code audits are equal: some are a human reading your code, some are a scanner with a logo. How to tell the difference before you pay.
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Statistics 1
Code Security and Quality: Key Statistics
What insecure code actually costs: breach, technical debt, dependency, and AI-generated code statistics from IBM, Verizon, OWASP, and other named sources.
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