You've just inherited a Laravel application you didn't build. Before you change a single line of code — or pay someone else to — you need to know exactly what you're working with. This is the audit process, step by step, for both technical leads and non-technical business owners.
Most agencies won't tell you what a retainer includes until you're on a sales call. Here's everything — scope, hours, response times, exclusions, and how the UK market actually prices this — so you can decide before you pick up the phone.
Audit costs, upgrade costs, remediation costs, rebuild costs — and the one number that makes all of them look expensive. UK pricing data, published where it exists, estimated where it doesn't.
Seven warning signs that your Laravel application has crossed from asset to liability — each backed by published research, each with a practical way to check. Plus a ten-point scorecard to find out where you actually stand.
An automated script is scanning tens of thousands of servers right now, looking for Laravel applications with known vulnerabilities. It doesn't know your name or your sector. It just needs your application to be unpatched. Here's what that actually costs — in breach data, ICO fines, and real CVEs with confirmed exploitation in the wild.
Your Laravel developer just handed in their notice. You have a month's notice, an application you depend on, and no clear picture of what it would cost — or take — to replace them. This is what actually happens next, backed by UK market data on replacement costs, security risk, and what most businesses get wrong.