You built with Bolt. Now you need real infrastructure.
Bolt.new got you to a working prototype inside a browser sandbox — that was the right call to validate. Production runs on real servers, with real users, under real load. We extract your app from the sandbox and rebuild it on conventional, enterprise-grade infrastructure — and we ship in weeks, not months.
Up front: we do not continue building inside Bolt, and we are not Bolt consultants. What we do is take your application out of the browser sandbox and rebuild it on conventional, well-supported infrastructure that you fully own. Same speed advantage Bolt gave you for the prototype, applied to the production version your real users will depend on.
The Bolt-to-production gap
Bolt is excellent at getting from idea to working prototype. Six things it is not designed to give you — and where production-ready software has to start.
Browser-Sandbox Reality
Bolt code lives inside StackBlitz's WebContainer environment. The runtime, the file system, the network — none of it is the production environment your real users will hit. Things that work in the sandbox routinely break the moment they leave it.
Security
Hardcoded API keys, no proper auth boundaries, no row-level security on data access. The kind of issues that pass casual testing but fail the first real penetration test. Bolt is not built to think about security; it is built to ship demos fast.
Scale
Database queries that work fine with 100 records and time out at 10,000. No connection pooling. No indexes on foreign keys. The exact day your app gets traction is the day it falls over.
Compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI — none of it works without audit logs, access controls, encryption-in-transit-and-at-rest, and documented change management. None of which Bolt produces by default.
Ownership
Code generated inside Bolt is exportable, but architecture decisions are not. Hiring conventional engineers to maintain a Bolt-shaped codebase is harder than maintaining a conventional one. Investors and acquirers ask hard technical-due-diligence questions.
Reliability
No CI/CD. No staging environment. No automated tests on critical flows. Every deploy is a roll of the dice. The first time a paying customer hits a broken signup, you understand why this matters.
What we actually do
We extract your application from the Bolt sandbox and rebuild it on the kind of stack a serious engineering team would have built it on from day one — React or Next.js, Node.js, Postgres, AWS. Nothing exotic. Nothing proprietary. Boring, well-supported, hireable technology.
The reason we are faster than a traditional agency: our senior engineers use modern AI tooling internally (Claude Code, modern dev environments, well-tested code generation patterns) to cut the parts of building software that benefit from automation, while keeping the parts that need senior judgment — architecture, security, data modeling, performance — in expert hands.
We work in lean teams — typically a Technical Product Manager, a senior Developer, and a QA engineer per project. That trio consistently outships traditional 6-to-8-person agency squads because there is no overhead between the people who scope, the people who build, and the people who verify. More on how the lean-team model works.
The result is the same kind of speed advantage Bolt gave you for the prototype, applied to the production version. What normally takes a traditional agency three to six months, we typically deliver in four to twelve weeks. And the codebase at the end is yours, lives in your GitHub, and is staffable by any competent engineer.
Productera is ISO 27001 certified. We build SOC 2-aligned infrastructure as a default. We have shipped 50+ products across fintech, healthtech, regtech, and expert networks. If your industry has compliance requirements, we have probably already built under them.
How a Bolt rebuild runs
Five phases. Honest about what each one delivers and what it does not.
Extract & Audit
We pull your code out of Bolt, run a real audit on it — features, data model, integrations, user flows, security gaps. You get a written assessment of what you have, what you actually need in production, and the gap between them.
Plan
We design the production architecture: React/Next.js front end, Node.js or your preferred backend, Postgres or whatever fits, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring. You see the plan before we write a line of code.
Build
Senior engineers, AI-assisted internally so we ship in weeks instead of months. Dual-layer code review on every change. Weekly working demos. You own the codebase from day one — it lives in your GitHub.
Migrate
Data migration, user migration, parallel-run verification, then cutover. Zero data loss. Your users do not see a regression. The Bolt sandbox can be retired or kept around for prototyping new features later.
Ship & Scale
Production deploy with monitoring, alerting, and SOC 2-ready logging. We stay through the first real traffic, the first audit, the first scaling pain. Then we hand over or stay embedded — your call.
When a rebuild is the right call
Rebuild now if:
- You have paying users and the cost of an outage is real revenue
- You are heading into a regulated industry (fintech, healthtech, regtech) and need ISO 27001 / SOC 2
- You are raising a seed or Series A and investors are asking technical due-diligence questions
- You are hitting Bolt's limits — rate limits on regenerations, integration gaps, edge cases the sandbox cannot represent
- You want to hire conventional engineers and need a codebase they can actually work in
Hold off if:
- You are still validating product-market fit and your user count is in single or double digits
- Your Bolt prototype works for the demo and you are not blocked by any of the gaps above
- You are pre-revenue and the cost of a rebuild outweighs the cost of running a few more months on Bolt
- Your product is genuinely simple enough that the Bolt architecture is not a constraint
Not sure which side you fall on? A 48-hour technical audit will tell you honestly.
Frequently asked questions
Do you continue building inside Bolt?+
No. We do not continue inside Bolt. We rebuild your application on conventional infrastructure — typically React or Next.js for the front end, Node.js for the backend, Postgres for data, AWS for hosting. The result is a codebase you own and can hire any competent engineer to maintain.
Can my Bolt code be exported and reused?+
Some of it, with judgment. Component code and database schemas often translate. Architectural choices, auth flows, and integration glue usually need to be redesigned for production. We figure out what is reusable in the audit phase, before we commit to a plan.
Will I lose my work?+
No. We map every feature, every flow, and every integration in the audit phase before we write code. Data migration is part of the process. Users move over with their accounts intact. The new app does what your Bolt app did, plus the production things it could not.
Why not just rebuild it myself with Cursor or Claude Code?+
You can. Many founders do, and it works for some. The reasons people hire us instead are speed (we have shipped 50+ products and know which decisions to make quickly), production rigor (security, compliance, scale by default — not as an afterthought), and team capacity (you stay focused on customers and product while engineering happens in parallel).
How long does a Bolt rebuild take?+
Most rebuilds ship in 4 to 12 weeks depending on scope. The audit and plan typically take 1 to 2 weeks. Build and migrate take the rest. We are faster than a traditional agency because senior engineers using modern AI tooling internally cut the work substantially — without skipping the steps that matter for production.
What technology stack do you build on?+
Conventional, boring, well-supported: React or Next.js, Node.js or Python depending on the domain, Postgres, AWS or GCP. We make boring, well-trodden choices on purpose — your codebase should be hireable, maintainable, and not dependent on any one vendor or framework that might disappear.
Are you ISO 27001 certified?+
Yes. Productera is ISO 27001 certified. We build SOC 2-aligned infrastructure as a default, with the audit logs, access controls, and documented procedures that compliance frameworks require. If your industry needs HIPAA, PCI, or other frameworks, we have shipped products under those constraints too.
Show us what you built with Bolt
30-minute call. We will look at your app, tell you honestly whether a rebuild is the right call, and if it is — what scope, timeline, and stack would actually work.