01. You book the first hour
Pay £90 for the first hour and send me a link to your repo or your staging site. No onboarding, no forms, and no commitment past that hour.
AI coding tools have made it possible for almost anyone to build something that looks and behaves like a real product, and I think that's genuinely brilliant. But there's a gap between code that works in a demo and code that's ready for real users, real data and real consequences. That gap is where I come in.
Anyone who's used Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit or any of the others to build an app or a website, and now wants somebody with ten years of commercial experience to take a proper look before it meets the public.
That might be because you're worried about bugs, because you're ready to launch and want a sanity check, or because you've hit a wall and can't work out why. All three are common and none of them are a reason to feel daft.
I think it's great that you've built something, and how it got made isn't really the point. What it needs next is the bit worth talking about.
I go through the codebase and use the app the way a real user would, and the way a rather less friendly one might.
If you want to keep building afterwards, I can take it on. Fixing what I found, adding what's missing, or just being a developer you can ring when something needs doing. Equally, take the findings and run with them yourself. Both are fine by me.
You don't need to understand every technical detail for this to be useful. I'll translate everything into terms you can actually make decisions with, walk you through it on a call, and give you a written summary you can go back to. You'll never be left with a list of technical terms and no explanation.
The assessment is honest in both directions. If your project is in good shape I'll tell you, and if it needs serious work before anybody should see it, I'll tell you that too, along with exactly what that work involves.
It isn't only the code either. I'll give you a view on the usability, on how the thing will age, and on the overall feel of it, because those tend to matter as much as what's under the bonnet.
This starts small on purpose. One hour, a fixed price, and an honest answer at the end of it about what you're actually dealing with.
Pay £90 for the first hour and send me a link to your repo or your staging site. No onboarding, no forms, and no commitment past that hour.
I go through what's been built, work out how it hangs together, and start listing anything that needs attention. This part is usually quicker than people expect.
Then I use the thing as a real user would, and as somebody with worse intentions might, which is usually where the more interesting problems surface.
At the end of that first hour you get an honest summary of what I found and a clear estimate of how much work is in front of you. On a call, rather than in a document you have to decipher on your own.
Take the findings and fix them yourself, or keep me on at £90 an hour. No pressure either way, and you'll know exactly what's involved before committing to anything further.
If launching is the goal, that's the most common thing to follow a review. I'll handle the whole launch process and point you at hosting that suits the project and the budget.
"Alex is the reason you should use a human rather than a bot to build your website."
Ready for that second opinion?
Book the first hour below and I'll come back to you within 24 hours to kick things off. If you'd rather ask a question first, send me an email.
