CodeCheckup
A plain-English audit app for small business owners — paste a GitHub link or upload the code you got from an AI tool or dev shop, and get a report on what it actually does, where the security holes are, and whether the scope matches what you paid for.
Non-technical small business owners who paid an AI tool or dev shop for custom software
- Plain-English feature inventory of what the code actually does, no jargon
- Security and privacy red-flag list with severity ratings (hardcoded secrets, unsafe queries, leaky APIs)
- Scope-match check that compares the code's behavior to the original brief or invoice
- Exportable PDF suitable for sharing with an accountant, lawyer, or second dev shop
With AI coding agents exploding, non-technical buyers are commissioning more custom software and have zero way to verify the deliverable; the paper's call for 'trajectory-aware, real-world' evaluation mirrors this buyer-side gap exactly.
Major security vendors (IBM, Kaspersky) and multiple security consultancies are publishing 2026 articles about vibe-coded apps creating risk for small businesses, indicating recognized buyer-side pain that hasn't been productized for non-technical owners.Vibe coding security risks aren't like ordinary security risks ↗A practical guide to secure vibe-coding for small businesses ↗Vibe Coding: Why AI-Generated Code Is a Security Bomb ↗
Existing code-audit tools (coaudit, Fustli/ai-code-auditor, Panto, TheAuditor) and services (Pure Inspect, Toptal, Fiverr reviewers) all target developers, enterprises, or investors — none position themselves as a plain-English buyer-side verification report with scope-vs-contract matching for small business owners.coaudit: AI-Powered Code Audits with GitHub Copilot CLI ↗GitHub - Fustli/ai-code-auditor ↗The Non-Technical Founder's Guide to Code Audits | SaaS Tune ↗Pure Inspect™ | Code Review as a Service ↗
Traditional code audits take 5-7 business days and are priced for enterprise/investor buyers (per SaaS Tune), and freelance reviews are hourly — there's no proven per-report price point a non-technical small-biz buyer will pay, and that segment is famously price-sensitive on software tooling.The Non-Technical Founder's Guide to Code Audits | SaaS Tune ↗Pure Inspect™ | Code Review as a Service ↗
IBM, Kaspersky and others are tracking vibe coding as a growing, structural shift in how software gets built — the buyer-verification gap is likely to persist (and worsen) as AI-generated code expands rather than be solved by platforms themselves.Vibe coding security risks aren't like ordinary security risks ↗The Hidden Security Risks of Vibe Coding ↗
LLM-based GitHub repo analysis is already demonstrably working (coaudit, ai-code-auditor), so the security/scan half is straightforward; the harder pieces — comparing delivered code to an invoice/contract and writing it for non-technical readers — are tractable but require careful prompt design and contract parsing that adds build risk.coaudit: AI-Powered Code Audits with GitHub Copilot CLI ↗GitHub - Fustli/ai-code-auditor ↗