About
01 — I check whether an AI-built app is ready to launch
I'm Mik Bry. Thirty years building software — SaaS platforms, AI products, real-time video, cryptography systems, cloud infrastructure. Rust, WebAssembly, React, Node.js, Python — whatever the problem actually calls for.
I've also built and lost my own startup. That's not a bio line, it's why I don't take a working demo at face value. A demo and a launch-ready app are two different claims, and I learned the gap between them the expensive way.
I work as a fractional CTO for founders, startups, and product teams who already have a prototype or MVP and now need to make it reliable, secure, and maintainable before launch.
02 — What I do now
Founders and product teams come to me with a prototype or an MVP built fast — often with AI doing a lot of the typing — and they need to know if it's actually safe to put in front of real users, real payments, real data. I go through the code myself: architecture, auth, the data model, payments, deployment, tests, what happens when something breaks at 3am.
AI wrote a lot of it. AI doesn't get to decide it's safe to ship. That's still a human call, and it's the one I make. I use AI to move faster. Then I review the architecture, tests, and documentation myself. AI can write the code; it doesn't get the final call.
03 — Contact
04 — About this site
Plain static HTML — no framework, no bundler, no client JavaScript. A small Node script reads markdown from content/ and emits HTML to dist/. Total build time: a few seconds; the previous Next.js version took ~60.
I rewrote the site itself from Next.js + React + Tailwind to vanilla JS in about two hours, driven by Claude Code under my own review.
Since July 2026 it's been served from a Scaleway VPS in France with Caddy as its front-end — a move off GitHub Pages driven by the need for HTTP-header control and same-origin backend services. Build time went from ~60 seconds to ~5. Deploy is a single-hop rsync over an SSH forced-command with a per-site deploy user; no CI framework layer, no orchestrator, no Docker in the artifact.
The Trust Report isn't ready yet. Want to know when it is? Email hello@mikbry.com and I'll put you on the list.