What is an AI Product Audit, and what do I inspect?
An AI Product Audit is broader than code review. It maps what the product has become, where decisions conflict and which problems can be removed without a rewrite.
AI-built products can become structurally complex before the team has a shared model of the architecture. An audit starts by making that reality visible.
The audit layers
- Product promise and feature scope.
- Routes, domains and integration map.
- Canonical sources of truth.
- Network, polling, caching and cost behavior.
- Authorization and secret boundaries.
- UX complexity and mobile failure states.
- Duplicate AI-generated abstractions.
- Production and release topology.
type AuditFinding = { severity: 'P0' | 'P1' | 'P2' | 'P3'; evidence: string; impact: string; smallestFix: string; rewriteRequired: boolean;};A good audit does not manufacture more work. It also reveals what should not be built.
From Prototype to Production
Turning a working MVP into a dependable product: production checks, modular refactoring, data migration, audits, rewrite decisions and release gates.