Prepare
What to prepare before the Rescue Audit.
This page exists to make the front door more useful. If you bring these materials, the application gets better faster, the audit starts with less fog, and FinishPath can tell more quickly whether the app should be patched, stabilized, partially rebuilt, or left alone.
You already have a repo, deployed product, prototype, or important internal tool that mostly works but does not feel safe to trust.
Reducing vague submissions. Improving speed to diagnosis. Making the Rescue Audit feel like a real operator process instead of a generic contact step.
You do not need perfectly organized materials. You do need enough truth to make the risky parts visible.
Bring these 5 things
A short explanation of what the product does, who it serves, and what a successful launch means in the next 30–90 days.
A live URL, staging link, screenshots, or a Loom that shows the main user flow and where confidence starts to break.
Stack, hosting, auth, billing, database, repo status, and which parts are most fragile or confusing to touch.
What is forcing clarity now: launch date, paying users, internal dependence, investor pressure, support load, or team bottlenecks.
What FinishPath can actually review: repo access, hosting dashboards, credentials via screen share, logs, docs, or only a live product and demo.
The weird edge cases, embarrassing flows, regressions, or support fires you already know about. Those are usually the useful clues.
Artifacts that help most
You do not need perfect documentation. You do need enough surface area to inspect reality.
- Live app URL and staging URL if they differ
- Loom or short screen recording of the core flow
- Repository link or code access status
- List of main integrations: auth, billing, email, AI providers, storage, analytics
- Known bugs or “please do not click that” areas
- Launch goal, milestone, or revenue pressure behind the work
If access is messy
That is normal. FinishPath can still often start with a demo, screenshots, architecture notes, and a truthful list of what is and is not accessible today.
If the repo is off-limits
The audit may still be useful, but the recommendation will be narrower and more conditional.
Questions to answer before you apply
- What does the app actually do today?
- What part already feels valuable?
- What part would make you nervous in front of real users?
- Which subsystem feels most dangerous: auth, billing, onboarding, deploys, permissions, data?
- What is hardest to change safely?
- What still depends too much on one person’s memory?
- What needs to be true in the next 2–6 weeks?
- What happens if nothing improves?
- Are you open to hearing that part of the current build should stop being preserved?
What happens after submission
- FinishPath reviews the application for fit, access reality, urgency, and whether the rescue problem is real.
- Strong fits move into the $2,500 Rescue Audit.
- If the problem is already extremely clear and bounded, the next conversation may be a scoped Rescue Sprint instead.
- If the app is too early, too inaccessible, or not a rescue problem, you should hear that quickly.
Ready
Bring the messy truth, not a polished story.
The audit works best when the real product, the real risk, and the real decision pressure are visible.
If you want pricing and scope again first, go back to the Rescue Audit page.