App Locksmith
Done in 5 business days
Built with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Lovable or Bolt?

Your app makes money now. Find the holes first.

Coding agents write code that works. They don't check whether a stranger can read your users' data, and neither did you, because you never read it. I check, and then I fix what I find.

Book the $950 audit

If I find nothing worth fixing, you get the whole $950 back. You keep the report.

Free 15-minute call first. Paid up front, then I start. Done in 5 business days.

I'm Nate Parker, a senior software engineer. I've found real vulnerabilities in widely used open-source code.

What I look for first

Whichever tool wrote it, the same handful of mistakes come out. I check all of these and more.

  • Secret keys in public code
    Anyone can open your site's code and copy them.
  • A database anyone can read
    The login works, but the data behind it isn't locked.
  • Pages that skip the login check
    Type the right address and you're in someone else's account.
  • Payments that can be faked
    Your app believes a message saying someone paid, without checking it's real.
  • No limit on your AI bill
    One stranger with a script can run it up overnight.
  • Code nobody has ever read
    The agent wrote it, it worked, and it shipped. What else it wrote went live too.

What you get

  • Fixed, not just found
    No list of homework. I make the fixes, as separate changes you can review and undo.
  • A report you can read
    What I found, what I fixed and what it means, without jargon.
  • Proof you can show
    A dated page saying your app was independently reviewed, to link from your site.
  • 30 days of questions
    Ask me anything about your app's security after we're done.

What lands in your inbox at the end

Independent security review: Tallyroom

  • The short version
  • What I looked at
  • What I found
  • What I checked and found nothing wrong with
Read the full sample report

A real one, start to finish. Read it before you spend anything.

Security audit, $950 flat fee

Book the $950 audit

How it goes

  1. Tell me about your app
    What it does and what it's built with. I reply within 24 hours, usually much sooner.
  2. Give me access
    Code, hosting and database, read-only to start. NDA if you want one.
  3. I review, fix and report
    Within 5 business days. We go through it together on a call.
Security audit
$950
flat fee

Introductory price for my first ten clients. Goes up after that.

For one app built with an AI tool. If yours is unusually large, I'll say so and quote before we start.


  • Full review of code, database and hosting
  • Fixes included
  • Plain-English report
  • "Independently reviewed" page for your site
  • 30 days of follow-up questions
Book the $950 audit

If I find nothing worth fixing, you get the whole $950 back. You keep the report.

Free 15-minute call first. Paid up front, then I start. Done in 5 business days.

Why it's $950 and not $9,000

A scoped web app penetration test$5,000 – $30,000
This audit, one app, fixes included$950

Their number buys a team, a sales process and an app with dozens of roles built over years. Yours is one app, built in weeks, reviewed by one person you deal with directly.

Figures from 2026 penetration testing pricing guide. Not my former prices: I have never charged them.

Who you're hiring

Nate Parker
Nate Parker
Senior software engineer

For five years I've built and defended the platform at a healthcare software company, where security is a large part of my job. I'm also the security engineer for a B2B software startup, and I've found real vulnerabilities in widely used open-source code. I've built, shipped and sold my own software too, so I know what it's like when the app is your income. You work with me directly.

15+
apps reviewed
< 8 hrs
typical first reply

Across my professional security work, not App Locksmith alone. The clients are under NDA, so no names, ever — including yours.

Fair questions

Why is this so much cheaper than a penetration test?
Because it isn't one, and I don't call it one. Pricing guides warn that under about $3,000 a “penetration test” is usually an automated scan with a logo on it, and they're right. This is a hand review of the mistakes AI tools actually ship, on one small app, by one person with no sales team to pay for. The sample report shows you exactly what you'd get before you spend anything.
Can't I ask the AI to check itself?
Try it. It will find some things. It also wrote these mistakes confidently the first time, and it can't test your live app the way an attacker would. Read what happened when I had an AI audit real code.
Will you break my app?
Each fix goes in as its own change, tested before and after, and you can undo any of them.
Is my app big enough to bother?
If it holds other people's data or takes payments, yes. Attackers scan for these mistakes automatically. They don't care how small you are.

Tell me about your app

And what made you look into this today.

One or two sentences is plenty. We can talk properly on the call.

Optional, and only if you'd rather talk than type.

If I find nothing worth fixing, you get the whole $950 back. You keep the report.

I reply within 24 hours, and the call is free.