Infrastructure audit

Infrastructure audit for AI-built software, review your deployment, backups, monitoring and secrets

AI ships the app in days, but the infrastructure around it often grows on the side. A proper SaaS infrastructure review looks beyond the code: Veriploy reviews the deployment, backups, monitoring, logging and secrets of your AI-built software and keeps the infrastructure under ongoing technical oversight afterwards, instead of stopping at a one-off audit.

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  • Snapshot from 249 €
  • Fixed monthly plans
  • Repo + CVE + infrastructure
  • German point of contact
Timo Wevelsiep

Technical point of contact

Timo Wevelsiep

Software engineer, cloud architect, founder & managing director

I review code, security and infrastructure and surface what is technically risky before launch, customer use or due diligence.

For questions like:

  • Is this release ready for production?
  • Which CVEs are really critical?
  • Will the architecture carry the next users?
01

What counts as infrastructure

Infrastructure is more than the code in the repo. It decides whether the app stays online, whether data survives and whether failures are traceable. These are the building blocks we look at:

01Hosting and runtime environment
02Deployment and release process
03CI/CD pipeline and build
04Backups and recovery
05Monitoring and alerting
06Logging and traceability
07Secrets and key management
08Database access and roles
09Rate limits on open endpoints
02

Common gaps in AI apps

AI tools produce a working app fast, but they rarely make the operations decisions that real production needs. These are the infrastructure gaps we find most often:

  • A backup exists but a restore was never actually tested
  • No monitoring and no alerts when things break
  • Secrets and API keys sit in the repository or in the frontend
  • Manual deployment with no reproducible process
  • No separation between staging and production
  • Logging is missing or vanishes without any retention
  • Database access with overly broad permissions
  • Open endpoints with no rate limiting at all
03

What Veriploy reviews

We look at the infrastructure points that decide production readiness and rank every finding by severity. We review:

  • Hosting and deployment: reproducible release, staging and prod separation
  • Backups and restore: existence, frequency and a tested recovery
  • Monitoring and alerting: availability, error rates, notification paths
  • Logging: what is recorded, where it lives, how long it stays
  • Secrets management: storage, rotation, separation from the code
  • Database and access: roles, permissions, rate limits on endpoints
04

One audit is not enough: ongoing Infrastructure Watch

A one-off audit describes yesterday's infrastructure. AI-built software moves fast: a new deployment target, an additional service or a moved secret changes the risk picture within days. An audit report that is four weeks old no longer covers that movement.

That is why Veriploy adds ongoing oversight after the first audit. You get the infrastructure reviewed once (Snapshot or Baseline) and then keep it under ongoing technical oversight with Watch, Guard or Launch, instead of archiving the result in your inbox.

That keeps the infrastructure picture current: backups and restore capability are kept in view, new services and changed access are flagged early, and before larger releases you get a human deployment audit with a judgement instead of an automated score.

05

Snapshot vs. Baseline vs. ongoing plan

You start with a one-off audit and then decide whether ongoing oversight makes sense. Prices are fixed and transparent.

Snapshot 249 €Baseline 490 €Plan from 299 €/mo
ScopeAutomated scan plus a short manual look at the infrastructureDeep initial baseline: hosting, deployment, backups, secrets, accessRecurring reviews based on the baseline
ResultThe 5 most important infrastructure risks, 1-page risk dashboardRisk dashboard, backup and restore check, secrets check, recommendationRecurring reports with fix prioritisation
Backups and monitoringPoint-in-time snapshotFull baseline as a reference pointOngoing watch on backups, monitoring and access
SupportOne-offOne-off, with a recommendation for the right planAsync sparring and a direct channel by plan
Best forFirst assessment, small budgetClean starting point before any planProducts that keep evolving
Example finding

What a finding looks like

veriploy-reportCritical
INFRA-03Backups and restore

Daily backups run, but a restore has never been tested. In an emergency it is unclear whether the data is recoverable. Recommendation: run and document a restore test in an isolated environment.

Comparison

One-off audit or ongoing oversight?

One-off auditVeriploy ongoing
TimingPoint-in-time snapshot on a fixed dateContinuous, with every new change
Backups and restoreState on the audit dayOngoing watch with a heads-up on gaps
New servicesNot coveredChanged infrastructure is flagged early
Before a releaseAnother audit neededHuman judgement included in the plan
AssessmentAction plan at the endHuman prioritisation, not just a score
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • What exactly does an infrastructure audit review?

    We look at hosting, deployment, CI/CD, backups, monitoring, logging, secrets management, database access and rate limits. The goal is to judge whether the infrastructure of your AI-built software can carry operation with real users, and to rank every finding by severity.

  • Do you also test whether backups actually work?

    We check whether backups exist, how often they run and whether a restore was ever tested. A backup without a tested restore is a common and critical finding. We recommend and guide the actual restore test, while implementation runs through your team or through Wevelsiep Advisory.

  • Do you need access to hosting and the repo?

    For the infrastructure, read access is usually enough: read-only on the repository plus a view of deployment, monitoring and backup configuration. We do not need write access, because we do not implement the changes ourselves.

  • Do you also do the fixes?

    Not within the plan. We review, prioritise and explain what needs to change in the infrastructure. Implementation runs separately through Wevelsiep Advisory or WZ-IT, or your own team. That keeps the audit independent from the implementation.

  • What does it cost?

    The entry point is fixed: Snapshot 249 € and Baseline 490 € as one-off audits. Ongoing oversight starts at 299 € per month (Watch), then Guard at 749 € and Launch at 1.490 € per month, with larger setups from Scale at 2.900 € per month. All prices are net plus VAT, plans cancellable monthly.

  • What is the Infrastructure Watch?

    It is the ongoing oversight after the first audit. Instead of a one-off report, we keep backups, monitoring, secrets and access in view continuously, flag risky changes early and reach out before larger releases with a human judgement.

Get your infrastructure reviewed and keep it monitored afterwards.

Start with Snapshot or Baseline, then ongoing oversight in the plan that fits.

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