Architecture rescue for AI-built codebases
You were shipping every day. Now the same bug keeps coming back, the same function exists in four files, and every fix breaks something else.
It isn't you, and it isn't the model. AI is exceptional at local edits and blind to global structure. Once there's nothing coherent to anchor against, it starts guessing, and guessing compounds.
If I don't find three things you didn't know about, you don't pay.
Does this sound familiar?
And the parts you haven't said out loud: you're not sure whether the problem is the AI, the code, or you. You're afraid a real engineer would look at this and laugh. You're afraid the answer is "start over," and you don't have another six months.
I've seen worse. I've shipped worse. You're not starting over.
Why this happens
Every AI coding tool works the same way: it reads what fits in context, then makes a confident local change. That works beautifully at first, when the whole project fits in the window and every convention is still visible.
Past a certain size, it can't see the whole thing anymore. It can't tell that the helper it's about to write already exists two directories over. So it writes a second one. Then a third. Each one is individually reasonable and collectively catastrophic.
Duplication isn't the disease, it's the symptom. It indicates that there's no longer a structure clear enough for either you or your AI to anchor against. Restore the structure and your AI gets sharp again, because now there's something for it to be consistent with.
What you get
I never touch your repo and I never need production access. You get artifacts you keep and can act on with or without me.
An annotated diagram of what your system actually does, not what you think it does.
Every clone, near-clone, and competing implementation, ranked by blast radius.
Which files are structural, which are dead weight, and which are dangerous.
Written for your codebase, in whatever format your AI CLI reads. Conventions, boundaries, and an explicit do-not-touch list.
Sequenced and effort-estimated, with the 20% of work that removes 80% of the problems.
45 minutes walking your actual code and explaining every finding. Yours to keep and review.
Unlimited questions on the findings while you apply them.
After the audit
Just finished with the audit? The audit stands alone, but do you want to keep going?
Everything above. Read-only, fixed price, delivered in five business days.
The audit, executed. Deduplication, seam extraction, characterization tests around your revenue paths, CI, and a one-command deploy you're not afraid of. Updates ship continuously. No separate branch that lives for three weeks isolated from the rest of the codebase. Your audit fee is credited if you book within 30 days.
Two architecture calls a month, a monthly health check, and async access. Professional reviews on critical pull requests (up to a monthly limit).
Bring one problem and share your screen. Applied as credit toward an audit if you book one later.
The guarantee
If the audit doesn't surface at least three specific, actionable problems you didn't already know about, you don't pay and you keep the report, the map, and the recording anyway.
What you're actually wondering
No. I build with these tools every day and my own first drafts look like this too. The audit describes what's there and what to do about it. There's no section where I tell you how it should have been done. Let's focus on the solution.
No, and I'll push back if you suggest it. Rewrites fail for exactly the reason you're stuck: nobody actually knows what the current system does. We recover that knowledge first, then change things incrementally while the app keeps running.
The opposite. The point is to get your AI productive again. A large part of the deliverable is context files that make your agent dramatically more accurate in your specific codebase.
Not for the audit. A read-only clone or a zip is enough, and I'll sign an NDA before you send anything.
Then the audit is worth more, not less. More problems to find and solve! Nothing you send is going to be the worst thing I've seen.
Fit
Not ready to book
Both of these are useful on their own. Neither one is a sales call in disguise.
Answer eight questions about your stack, your conventions, and what your AI keeps getting wrong. Get back a tuned context file in the format your CLI reads. This is the thing that stops your agent inventing a fourth version of a helper you already have.
Generate my context fileBring one bug your AI has been circling for more than two days. We screen share, I tell you what's structurally causing it, and you keep the recording. If it turns out to be a one-line fix, great! You got a free fix and I got a good story.
Book a Loop Breaker Five per week. When they're gone, they're gone until Monday.Who you'd be working with
Keeping a codebase coherent while many contributors change it every day is my actual job. I'm a senior engineer and team lead. I review the pull requests, catch the third implementation of a helper we already have, and decide where the boundaries go. An AI agent is just another contributor, one that writes faster than anyone and forgets everything between sessions.
I ship with AI coding CLIs every day and I've used these tools since they were publicly available. I'm not selling you a return to handcrafted artisanal code, I'm selling you the structure that makes these tools work at the size you've reached.
I've always been a person who loves systems and optimizing. I love strategic games like StarCraft 2, Chess, Magic: The Gathering, and League of Legends. I love to understand the rules, the systems, and the strategies that make you win. I love to understand how things work, and I love to make them work better.
Next step
Click the button below to book a call to start the audit. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you on the call and point you somewhere better.
Find nothing, charge nothing. You keep the report either way.