Bubble.io Certified Agency · Audit first engagements

Your Bubble appisn't broken.It's unpredictable.

Searches that return nothing when the records are clearly there. Filters that work in dev and fail in live. A workflow that behaved fine last month and doesn't now. You inherited an app you can't see inside, so we read it before anyone touches it.

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Read only access · Nothing changes in your live app · Report in 5 business days

The Pattern

Six ways a Bubble app tells you something is wrong

Zero results, but the data is right there.

You can see the records in the database. The search returns nothing. Sometimes.

Dev works, live doesn't.

The same workflow behaves differently across environments and nobody can say why.

Search doesn't survive a page change.

Homepage search parameters don't carry to the results page. Users land on an empty list.

Location logic fights itself.

A typed in city and browser geolocation both try to win. Declining the location prompt wipes the results.

Every fix creates a new bug.

One change breaks something two workflows away. Nobody knows the blast radius.

The developer is gone.

No documentation, no naming convention, two hundred workflows and no map.

The Honest Version

Why most agencies will tell you to rebuild

It is easier to bill for a rebuild than to read two hundred workflows somebody else wrote. So that is the quote you get.

Most of the apps we look at do not need rebuilding. They need three or four decisions reversed.

A field typed as text that should be a geographic address. A privacy rule quietly filtering out the exact records the user is searching for. A page to page handoff built on custom states instead of URL parameters.

Those are one day fixes hiding behind a $15,000 quote.

The other outcome is real too. Sometimes the data model cannot hold what the business now needs, and patching it costs more than replacing it. We will tell you that just as plainly.

What we will not do is guess in either direction before we have read the app.

The Solution

What is a Bubble app audit?

A Bubble app audit is a fixed fee diagnostic review of an application you already have. We read the database, the privacy rules, the search implementation, the workflows and the plugins, in both your development and live environments, and we tell you exactly what is causing the instability before anyone changes a single thing.

You get a written report, a ranked list of every issue with its root cause, a straight answer on whether the app can be repaired or needs restructuring, and a fix plan with hours and cost attached. The report is yours whether you hire us for the fix or not.

$299starting price, flat
5 daysreport turnaround, usually 3
0changes made to your live app

Scope

Seven layers, checked in order

01
Data structure
Field types, option sets, relationships, and list fields doing work they should not. Radius search fails silently when an address is stored as text, so this is where we start.
02
Privacy rules
The single most common cause of zero results when matching records exist. Privacy rules filter the database before your search ever runs, and Bubble gives you no error when they do.
03
Search implementation
Server side constraints against client side filtering. Empty constraints that are not being ignored. Nested searches inside repeating groups. Whether your results are narrowed by the database or by the browser, and what that costs.
04
Workflow logic
Page to page data handoff, custom states against URL parameters, condition stacking, reset and clear flows, and race conditions between page load and geolocation.
05
Plugins
Abandoned plugins, duplicated functionality, version conflicts, and geolocation plugins competing with Bubble's native location handling.
06
Development and live parity
Separate databases, API keys configured in dev but never in live, partial deploys, and plugin settings that differ across environments.
07
Capacity and workload
Where your workload units are actually going, and which searches become expensive at ten times your current traffic.

Process

How the audit runs, start to finish

01 /
Access
You share view only editor access. We do not need admin rights, your Stripe keys, or production data. It takes two minutes. Go to Settings, then Collaboration, and invite ehsan.bubbledev.1@gmail.com with view only access.
02 /
Read
Ehsan reads the app end to end: database, workflows, privacy rules, plugins, both environments. We reproduce your issues rather than take them on faith, because the reported symptom and the actual cause are usually in different places.
03 /
Report
You get a written audit and a Loom walking through it. Every issue is named, ranked, and traced to a root cause with the exact page or workflow it lives in.
04 /
Decide
A thirty minute call to go through the findings. You leave with a fix plan, an hours estimate, and a cost. Whether we do the fix is your call.

Deliverables

A document your next developer can work from

Written audit report. The full findings, structured, in plain English. Not a Slack message.
Ranked issue log. Every problem tagged critical, high, or low, each with its root cause, its location in the app, and the effort to fix it.
Root cause analysis on your symptoms. The exact reason searches return zero. The exact reason dev and live diverge.
The verdict. Repair, restructure, or rebuild, with the reasoning behind it.

A recommendation on search architecture. Whether native Bubble search can be made reliable at your scale, or whether you need Algolia or Typesense. We take a position.
A fix plan with hours and cost. Scoped from what we found, not from what we guessed.
Loom walkthrough. Fifteen to twenty minutes, screen shared.
Thirty minute review call. To argue with any of it.

Already know your app needs a proper look?

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Proof

Founders we have built and fixed for

Having no software engineering experience myself, he helped me understand what was keeping my app from being scalable and maintainable, and offered a clear roadmap to rebuild from the ground up. He was able to determine what features were necessary and unnecessary for the MVP that I envisioned.

justinveiraUnited StatesFiverr10 months ago

I'd pitched my project to several developers, sharing a pretty in-depth brief along with full designs. I asked each of them the same simple but important question. Out of five developers, Ehsan was the only one who answered it correctly, and within minutes. That gave me the confidence that he was the right person for the job, and I couldn't have been more right.

benhumphreys602United KingdomFiverr1 year ago

Bubble.io Certified Agency. Five years of Bubble builds across the US and UK, covering marketplaces, multi role SaaS, geolocation search and Stripe Connect. We have inherited more apps than we have started from scratch.

Terms

Fixed fee, fixed window, no hourly creep

Timeline.

The report lands in five business days. Most come back in three.

Price.

Audits start at $299, flat. Larger applications, meaning marketplaces, multi role platforms, or anything over roughly thirty pages, are quoted after a quick look at the editor. You will know the number before we start.

The credit.

If you go ahead with the fix, the full audit fee comes off the invoice. The audit costs you nothing if we do the work.

What we will not do.

Touch your live app. Not one workflow, not one field. If a test would write data, we ask you to duplicate the app first.

The comparison

Audit first, or go straight to fixing?

	Audit first	Go straight to fixing
Cost certainty	Fixed fee, known before you start	Open ended hourly, scope grows
Root cause	Found before anything changes	Guessed at, symptom by symptom
Risk to live app	None, access is read only	Changes go in before the app is understood
What you own after	A document any developer can work from	A commit history and a bill
If you do not hire us	You keep the report and the plan	You start over with the next developer
Rebuild recommendation	Only when the data justifies it	Often, because it is easier to quote

Fit

Is this the right time for an audit?

Good fit

You inherited a Bubble app from a developer who is no longer available
The app is live or close to live and behaving inconsistently
You want a second opinion before approving a rebuild quote
You are doing technical due diligence before acquiring or investing

Not a fit

The app is less than twenty percent built, where scoping costs less than auditing
You need something fixed within twenty four hours
You want an audit to justify a decision you have already made

faq

Questions founders ask before they send the link

Will you change anything in my app?

No. We work with view only access and we do not ask for more. If reproducing an issue would require writing data, we ask you to duplicate the app and we work in the copy.

Do I have to hire you for the fix?

No. The report is yours and it is written so that any developer can act on it. Most clients do continue with us, but that is a decision you make after seeing the work.

I am not comfortable giving access to my whole app.

There are two options. We sign an NDA before you send the invite, or you duplicate the app and share the copy. Both work fine for an audit.

There is no documentation and I do not know how it was built.

That is the normal case, not the exception. Reading undocumented apps is the service.

What if you tell me to rebuild?

Then we show you exactly which parts of the data model cannot be repaired and what it costs to keep patching them. We also tell you what can be salvaged, which is usually more than people expect.

Can you tell me whether I need Algolia?

Yes, and it is an explicit part of the report. Native Bubble search handles more than people assume once constraints are structured correctly. We tell you whether your problem is architecture or genuinely scale.

How much does the fix cost?

It depends on what we find, which is the point of auditing first. We do not quote a fix before we have read the app.

Do you work with US and UK founders?

Most of our clients are. We overlap with US and UK working hours and run everything asynchronously with Loom updates.

Next step

Send us the app and we will tell you what is wrong with it

Five business days, from $299 flat, and nothing in your live app changes.

01. Invite us

In your Bubble app, go to Settings, then Collaboration, and invite ehsan.bubbledev.1@gmail.com with view only access.

02. Email us

Send that same address your editor link and a line on what is breaking.

Email us your appehsan.bubbledev.1@gmail.com

We reply within one business day with a confirmed price and a start date. Would you rather talk it through first? Book a 20 minute call