Your operations didn't break in a single moment. They've been degrading gradually while you explained away each symptom. The data on when UK SMEs actually hit the wall is more specific than most owners realise.
Sixty percent of Laravel applications are at least two versions behind. The cost of catching up doesn't grow on a calendar — it grows on a curve.
You hired a freelancer to build your MVP. It's half-finished, undocumented, and the developer has gone quiet. Now you need to understand what rescue actually costs — and whether what you have is worth saving.
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.
Veracode tested 150+ AI models and found 45% of generated code introduces OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. The failure rate for cross-site scripting defences is 86% — and it isn't improving with newer models. Here's what that looks like inside a real codebase, what you can check yourself in 30 minutes, and what the UK's National Cyber Security Centre is now saying about it.
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.
Independent security firms have now audited thousands of AI-built apps. The same three architectural failures appear in virtually every codebase — and none of them are your fault.