Inspect. Refit. Harden. Clear. Maintain.
Five stages in order. Each one produces something concrete, and each is a place you can stop. Most engagements start at the first and go as far as the evidence justifies.
Inspect
Find out what you’ve actually built.
We examine the application and the infrastructure around it to establish real production readiness — not a code-style opinion. The output is an Inspection Report: findings with severity, evidence and a recommended fix, plus a Production Readiness Rating.
This is the entry point and the only stage most people need to commit to up front.
- Architecture
- Application code
- Security
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Secrets
- Dependencies
- Database design
- Data integrity
- Testing
- Error handling
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Backups
- Disaster recovery
- CI / CD
- Infrastructure
- Performance
- Scalability
- Documentation
- Maintainability
Refactor generated code
Make it legible and changeable by humans, without changing what it does.
Remove duplication
Collapse the same logic copy-pasted into six places into one place that’s tested.
Separate concerns
Pull business rules out of controllers and UI components where they don’t belong.
Repair the data model
Constraints, relationships, migrations — the things that stop bad data at the door.
Add tests where they pay
Coverage on the paths that lose money or data first. Not a coverage percentage chase.
Refit
Keep what works. Fix what doesn’t.
A refit is not a rewrite. We identify the parts that are structurally sound — usually more than people expect — and preserve them, while repairing or replacing the parts that won’t survive.
Everything is done in reviewable increments against a working system. You keep shipping while we work.
Harden
Prepare the system for the real world.
Prototypes are built for the happy path. Production is mostly everything else: hostile input, expired credentials, a full disk, a third-party API that starts returning 503s at 2am.
Hardening is where the system learns to fail properly — predictably, visibly, and without taking your data with it.
- Authn / authz
- Secrets management
- Input validation
- Dependency CVEs
- Security config
- Rate limiting
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Backups
- Recovery drills
- Infra resilience
- Deploy safety
- Failure handling
- Prod configuration
Clear
Verify that the system is ready to ship.
After remediation the system goes through a Systems Check — a re-run of the inspection against the same criteria, so improvement is measured, not asserted. It ends in a clearance decision.
A clearance is a statement about a system at a point in time, on defined criteria. It isn’t a guarantee that nothing will ever break, and we won’t pretend otherwise. It’s the difference between hoping and knowing.
Maintain
Keep it production ready.
Clearance decays. Dependencies age, features land, and an agent that doesn’t know why a constraint exists will happily remove it. Bay Support is the ongoing engineering discipline around a team that keeps building fast.
You carry on using AI-assisted development. We provide the review, the guardrails and the periodic re-inspection that keep the system honest.
Reviews
Architecture reviews, pull-request review, and review of AI-generated changes before they land.
Security
Ongoing dependency maintenance, vulnerability triage and periodic security checks.
Operations
Performance monitoring, infrastructure maintenance and production incident support.
Re-inspection
Periodic Bay Inspections so readiness is tracked over time, not assumed.
Start with an inspection.
Everything else follows from knowing what you’ve got.