Building with LLMs? The Attack Surface Just Got a Lot Bigger.
Security and reliability code audits for AI-native startups — LLM wrappers, RAG applications, AI agents, multi-step workflows, and products built on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini.
AI-native products have an entirely new class of vulnerabilities: prompt injection, data leakage across conversation contexts, unbounded token spend, and unsafe tool execution. On top of standard code quality issues, we audit the AI layer specifically — because your LLM is part of your attack surface.
The AI Startups Code Bugs We Find Most Often
These are not hypothetical risks. These are the patterns we find in real ai & llm startups codebases built with AI coding tools — Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, and GitHub Copilot. Every item below is something we can find, report on, and help you fix.
Prompt Injection and Jailbreak Vectors
If your app takes user input and passes it into a prompt, it has a prompt injection surface. We test whether malicious users can override your system prompt, extract your instructions, make the model do things it shouldn't, or use your AI feature to attack other users.
Data Leakage Across User Contexts
RAG systems that pull from a shared knowledge base, conversation memory that persists incorrectly across sessions, and LLM context windows that accumulate prior user data are all paths to cross-user data leakage. We trace every data path in your AI layer.
Unbounded Token Spend and Cost Explosions
Without rate limiting, max token controls, and spend caps at the user level, a single malicious request can cost you thousands of dollars. We audit every LLM call for missing guards, and test whether adversarial inputs can force expensive completions.
Unsafe Agentic Tool Execution
AI agents with tool calling — file access, web browsing, code execution, API calls — need sandboxing and scope limits that AI-generated agent code almost never implements correctly. We test whether your agent can be coerced into taking destructive actions.
Vector Database and Retrieval Security
Retrieval-augmented generation systems store sensitive data in vector databases with embeddings. Access control, namespace isolation, and injection of malicious documents into the retrieval index are all risks we audit specifically.
LLM Output Trust and Hallucination Risk
If your app acts on LLM output — parsing structured data, executing suggestions, routing decisions — weak output validation is a reliability and security risk. We check every place your code trusts LLM output without sufficient validation.
Compliance & Regulatory Context
AI applications increasingly face regulatory scrutiny: EU AI Act risk classification, NIST AI RMF alignment, and sector-specific AI rules in finance and healthcare. We flag the code-level practices most likely to cause compliance problems as AI regulation matures.
A Full Code Audit Tailored to AI Startups
Our ai & llm startups code audit combines a general production-readiness review with ai startups-specific security and compliance checks. You get a single prioritized report covering everything — not a generic scanner output.
AI Startups Apps We Audit
We work across the full range of ai & llm startups products built with AI coding tools. If your app touches this space, we can audit it.
VibeAudits Services for AI Startups Teams
Whether you need a full security audit, help getting a stuck app to production, or coaching on the AI tools you're building with — we have a service for exactly where you are right now.
What You Get at the End of a AI Startups Code Audit
A single, prioritized report — not a raw scanner dump. Every finding includes a severity rating, reproduction steps, and concrete guidance your team or AI tools can act on immediately.
AI Startups Code Audit: Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from ai & llm startups founders and technical teams before booking a code audit.
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Book a free 60-minute intro call. We review your repo, identify the highest-risk areas, and send a fixed-price quote within 24 hours. Most ai & llm startups audits kick off within the same week.
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