Earthflix — owned product
A shipped streaming product, designed and built end-to-end by OECIA. Streaming platform, accounts and subscriptions, payments, deployment.
One of the ways into OECIA — prototype assessment
You built it fast.
Now make it hold up.
If your Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Replit Agent build looks finished but falls apart the moment real users, real data or real payments touch it — this page is how we approach that specific situation. It's one of several ways people come to us; here's the rest of what we do.
It looks done.
That's the problem.
AI app builders are extraordinary at making software look finished, fast. They're not built to tell you what's actually holding it together underneath.
- Store data safelyPersists to a real, permissioned database
- Authenticate real usersEnforces who can see and change what
- Take a real paymentConfirms, records, and reconciles the order
- Survive real trafficHolds up past a handful of concurrent users
- Pass a security checkSafe to put someone else's data in
You don't find out until a user does, or an investor asks a question you can't answer. And by then you've usually been quoted once already — a vague number, an open-ended scope, and a bad feeling about where it ends. We don't quote before we've looked. That rule holds on every piece of work we take on, not just this one.
How it works
Three steps. No surprises.
01
The Backend Reality Check
We go through your codebase and tell you, in plain English, what's real and what's a mockup. You get a gap map, the security risks we found, and a clear verdict: bolt-on the missing pieces, or rebuild the parts that won't hold. Fixed price. 2–3 days.
02
One fixed number
Based on the audit, you get one price for the work that's actually needed — not an hourly rate, not a moving target. You decide whether to proceed. No surprises, because we never quote before we've looked.
03
Launch-ready
We build the missing backend — real database, real auth, real integrations, real security — and hand you something you can put in front of users, investors, or paying customers. Deployed, not demoed.
Pricing
One diagnostic.
One fixed number after that.
Every engagement starts with the £495 diagnostic — here it's pointed at your codebase. We never quote a build before we've seen inside it. The prices below are typical for this pathway; the actual number comes from what we find.
Always first
Backend Reality Check
The audit.
A full gap map of what's real vs. mockup, the security risks we find, and a bolt-on-vs-rebuild verdict — plus a fixed quote for the work, if you want it.
£495
For prototypes that are close
Backend Bolt-on
Fix the gaps.
A real database schema, real authentication, and one working integration (Stripe, email, or similar), deployed.
From £2,750
For prototypes that need it all
MVP Launch Package
The full backend.
A complete data model for your feature list, an admin panel, a security pass, basic analytics, and deployment.
From £7,500
For after launch
Scale-Ready Retainer
Ongoing support.
Ongoing feature work, infrastructure, monitoring, and support on a monthly basis.
From £1,950/mo
The audit fee counts toward your build. If you sign up for a
Backend Bolt-on or MVP Launch Package within 14 days of receiving your audit
report, the full £495 you paid is credited in full against that build — so the
audit costs nothing if you go on to build with us.
Exact pricing confirmed at audit. Every tier is fixed-price once scoped. Prices shown ex-VAT.
Our work
We don't just fix backends.
We build products.
This is one pathway into OECIA — a founder-led team that helps organisations identify, design and implement the systems that move them forward, and builds its own products alongside client work. Same senior people, same four stages, whichever problem brought you here.
Panoa — owned product
An OECIA product taken from concept to a live, working build. Data modelling, registry architecture, web app, infrastructure.
ExploreGenius.com — owned product
A live product built and shipped by OECIA. Product design, learning app build, user accounts, launch.
GreenPaw Project / GreenPaw Hive — client work
An independent UK conservation charity. OECIA provides web development for their sites — site build, membership and crowdfunding flows, deployment and ongoing support.
GreenPaw is a client of OECIA's web development work, not of this prototype-assessment pathway, and not an owned OECIA product. Shown here as proof of client-delivery capability — not a charity endorsement.
Horngry — client work
A global community platform for action sports. OECIA delivered the app and website build, a coaching marketplace, backend dashboard and CRM.
Products we've built, and clients we build for. That's the standard we hold your backend to.
Find out what's actually under the hood.
Before you spend another month guessing, spend two days finding out for certain. The diagnostic tells you exactly what's real, what's not, and exactly what it costs to fix — in writing, before you commit to anything.
Not your situation? See the rest of what OECIA does →