--- title: "SystemTrails — Senior Architect for AI-Built Products" description: "You built fast with AI. Now it has to hold. Free teardown of your AI-built product: 3 concrete findings and a fix-or-rebuild verdict, recorded, within 72 hours. Then a fixed-price Hardening Sprint or a senior architect on call." url: https://systemtrails.com/ markdown: https://systemtrails.com/index.md type: home date: 2026-08-31 lastmod: 2026-09-01 --- # SystemTrails — Senior Architect for AI-Built Products > You built fast with AI. Now it has to hold. Free teardown of your AI-built product: 3 concrete findings and a fix-or-rebuild verdict, recorded, within 72 hours. Then a fixed-price Hardening Sprint or a senior architect on call. Free teardown: https://systemtrails.com/free-teardown/ | Contact: https://systemtrails.com/contact/ | Book a call: https://cal.com/dan-podina-snqasy/30min ## Start here - [Free Teardown](https://systemtrails.com/free-teardown/index.md): A senior architect reviews your AI-built product: 3 concrete findings and a fix-or-rebuild verdict, recorded on video, within 72 hours. Free, async, no sales call. - [Pricing](https://systemtrails.com/pricing/index.md): Fixed prices, published. Free teardown, Hardening Sprint from $2,500, Senior Oversight Retainer $2,000/mo. No rebuild pitch — ever. - [Due-Diligence Read](https://systemtrails.com/due-diligence/index.md): A fixed-price technical read on an AI-built codebase before you invest or acquire: provenance, risk, and remediation cost. $1,500, 5 business days. - [About](https://systemtrails.com/about/index.md): Dan Podina — systems architect, 20 years in fintech, healthcare, and SaaS backends. Founder of GQLTeam. He makes AI-built products ready for what's next. - [Contact](https://systemtrails.com/contact/index.md): Request a free teardown of your AI-built product, book a call, or just ask. Recorded review with 3 concrete findings within 72 hours. ## Findings and guides - [What does it cost to make an AI-built app production-ready in 2026?](https://systemtrails.com/resources/cost-to-make-ai-built-app-production-ready-2026/index.md): In 2026 an AI-built app costs $0 to $1,500 to diagnose, $2,500 to $8,000 for a two to three week fix pass, and $2,000 to $15,000 a month for senior oversight. - [Is my Lovable app secure? Six checks to run before launch (2026)](https://systemtrails.com/resources/lovable-app-secure-six-checks-before-launch/index.md): Six checks before a Lovable app launches: RLS on every table, no secret key in the bundle, auth settings, bucket policies, keys server-side, a tested backup. - [Is my AI-built codebase well designed? Count the files each change touches (2026)](https://systemtrails.com/resources/files-touched-per-change-ai-built-codebase/index.md): The one design signal a non-engineer can measure: how many files change per small change. Three or four means separable parts; fifteen means tangled. In git. - [Your AI-built app connects to Gmail. Six things that have to hold before launch (2026)](https://systemtrails.com/resources/gmail-connected-ai-built-app-before-launch/index.md): Six checks before launching a Gmail-connected AI-built app: scopes, token storage, per-user isolation, Google verification and CASA, watch renewals, deletion. - [Before you raise: what technical due diligence asks of an AI-built codebase (2026)](https://systemtrails.com/resources/technical-due-diligence-ai-built-codebase/index.md): Technical due diligence on an AI-built codebase in 2026 asks five things: who understands the code, is it secure, can it be restored, can it be maintained, and can it survive a hire. Here is the evidence to prepare. - [What Is a Vibe Code Audit? (And What a Real One Should Cover)](https://systemtrails.com/resources/what-is-a-vibe-code-audit/index.md): You built your app with AI and now someone told you to 'get it audited.' Here's what a vibe code audit actually is, what it covers, what it costs, and how to spot a shallow one. - [The Architecture Map Every AI-Built Startup Needs (Free Template)](https://systemtrails.com/resources/architecture-map-template/index.md): You built it fast with AI. Now you need to explain it — to investors, new hires, and yourself. Here's the free architecture map template we use with every client. - [I Audited 50+ AI-Built Codebases. Here's What They All Get Wrong.](https://systemtrails.com/resources/audited-50-ai-codebases/index.md): After reviewing dozens of apps built with Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Bolt, and Lovable, the same 5 problems keep showing up. Here's what to look for in yours. - [All resources](https://systemtrails.com/resources/index.md): Articles on AI-built MVPs, architecture, scaling, hiring, and production readiness. ## Platform checklists - [Lovable app production checklist: eight checks before real users (2026)](https://systemtrails.com/platforms/lovable/index.md): A Lovable app is production-ready when Row Level Security isolates every user, the service_role key stays server-side, migrations and backups exist in the synced repo, and the app builds outside Lovable. Eight checks with sources. - [All platform checklists](https://systemtrails.com/platforms/index.md): Production checklists for apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, v0 and other AI builders: the eight checks before real users, with platform-specific facts and sources. ## Identity - Person: Dan Podina, Systems Architect, Cluj-Napoca, Romania — https://danpodina.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-podina/ - GitHub: https://github.com/pedeceul - Company: GQLTeam SRL — https://gqlteam.com - Email: info@gqlteam.com - Book a call: https://cal.com/dan-podina-snqasy/30min ## Machine-readable - Full text of every public page: https://systemtrails.com/llms-full.txt - Site index (JSON): https://systemtrails.com/index.json - Resources (JSON): https://systemtrails.com/resources/index.json - Agent discovery: https://systemtrails.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json - Security contact: https://systemtrails.com/.well-known/security.txt - RSS: https://systemtrails.com/resources/index.xml