Production Hardening
Make the MVP survive enterprise procurement, Series A technical DD, and the 50x traffic spike.
What we deliver in 8 weeks
The graduation engagement. Most AI startups in 2026 ship their MVP in v0 / Cursor / Lovable / Bolt within a few weeks, then spend the next twelve months patching the gap between MVP and production. AppRocket's production hardening engagement compresses that twelve months into eight weeks: we replace the Google Sheet eval framework with one that survives enterprise procurement, build the MLOps stack that lets the on-call engineer sleep, document the architecture for the next CTO hire, and harden the security posture for SOC 2 readiness or Series A technical DD. Founder-led, fixed-price, with knowledge transfer baked into every deliverable so your in-house team owns the system after we leave.
Eval framework
The same framework AppRocket developed across 18 months operating Casetrack. Continuous regression runs against your scenarios, attorney-graded ground truth (or domain-graded equivalent), drift detection, alerting.
MLOps stack
Model deployment pipelines, observability (Arize / Langfuse / OpenTelemetry), drift detection, A/B testing harness, on-call rotation tooling. Tuned to your foundation model contracts (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini).
Security and procurement readiness
Threat model, security review, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness assessment. Tenant isolation review. Data flow audit. Pen-test prep.
Architecture documentation
Architecture decision records covering every meaningful technical choice, rationale, and the alternatives not picked. The deliverable that makes the next CTO hire easier.
On-call rotation + runbook
PagerDuty / Opsgenie integration, incident response runbook, SLO definitions, error budget tracking. Designed for your team to run after we leave.
What changes after the engagement
- MVP survives enterprise procurement and Series A technical DD
- In-house engineering owns the system after handoff
- 50x traffic spike absorbed without ops degradation
- Investor-defensible eval discipline
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Production Hardening — frequently asked
Graduate from MVP.
Two-week notice from SOW countersign to kickoff. Time the engagement 4-8 weeks before your raise opens.