Dev Partners Ltd, Kent.

04/09/2026

A question we get asked a lot at the moment: "can you just check the app my nephew built with AI is actually safe?"

Yes we can. But the thing people expect us to find is almost never the thing we find.

Everyone imagines a hacker. What actually turns up is much more boring, and much more likely. Two customers use the app. One of them changes the number at the end of a web address and gets to look at the other one's invoice. Nothing was broken into. The app was simply never told that those two customers are not supposed to see each other's things.

That is not an AI problem. We have been finding the same thing in hand written software since 2008. AI has just made it possible to build an app very quickly without anyone ever sitting down and deciding who is allowed to see what.

If you have got something running that holds other people's details, the cheapest thing you can do this week costs nothing. Get a second account, log in as that, and try to look at the first account's data. If it works, you have found it before somebody else did.

21/08/2026

If you have an online shop, here is a question worth asking whoever built it.

When a customer places an order, does the price come from your database, or does the browser tell you what it was?

It sounds like a technical detail. It is not. The page on the customer's screen already knows the item, the quantity and any discount, because it has worked out the total in order to display it. The quickest way to build a checkout is to let the page send that total along with the order, and have the shop write down what it was told.

Everything works. The totals are right. Every order that has ever come through has been correct, because every customer so far has behaved normally.

The problem is that the number is sitting somewhere the customer can edit before it is sent. Not with any special tools. It is a couple of minutes' work for anyone who has looked it up once.

This turns up more often in apps built quickly with AI, because the AI writes exactly what it was asked for, and nobody asked it who should be allowed to decide the price.

If you are not sure which way yours works, that is a fair enough answer. Most people are not. It is worth finding out before somebody else does.

19/08/2026

The first question is almost never about security.

People come to us with an app they built with AI, and before anything else they want to know whether they own it. Whether the code is theirs, whether they could move it somewhere else, whether they are stuck with the tool that made it.

Good instinct pointed at the wrong risk. It is ordinary React and an ordinary database. You can move it. Any competent developer can read it.

The risk is not that you cannot leave. It is that you cannot tell what you are taking with you.

Somewhere in there is a query that returns more than the screen shows. A form that trusts the value the browser sent it. An endpoint nobody linked to that still answers. None of that shows up when you use the app, because using the app is the one thing that cannot find it.

Ownership was never the hard part. Knowing what you own is.

Twelve questions, no email needed to see the score:

Twelve questions on security, database, scale and maintainability. Instant score, no email needed. Built by UK developers, not a scanner.

18/08/2026

A question we get asked a lot at the moment.

Someone builds an app using one of the AI tools. Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Bubble. It works. It looks finished. Then they want to put it in front of real customers and they want to know whether that is safe.

Usually the honest answer is that nobody knows, because nobody has looked.

These tools are genuinely impressive and we are not in the business of telling people theirs is rubbish. But what comes out of them underneath is ordinary code and an ordinary database, produced very quickly by something optimising for a working result rather than a durable one. The gap between those two things is where the trouble tends to sit.

If you have built something and it is about to go live, it is worth having someone read it first. There is a free twelve question scorecard on our site that gives you a rough sense of where yours stands. No email needed to see the result.

Twelve questions on security, database, scale and maintainability. Instant score, no email needed. Built by UK developers, not a scanner.

17/08/2026

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Our free efficiency checklist helps you identify exactly where manual work, disconnected systems, and outdated workflows are costing you, and what to do about it.

Download our free efficiency checklist and find out exactly where your business is losing time and money to manual processes, disconnected systems, and slow workflows.

17/08/2026

Things We've Learn't Building Ecommece Sites -

A slow checkout isn’t always a checkout problem.
Sometimes the issue starts much earlier - poor product data, confusing delivery information, limited payment options or an overly complicated customer journey.

Before changing the checkout, look at the whole path to purchase.

14/08/2026

Behind the scenes of a Shopify migration 👀

Moving an ecommerce business to Shopify isn’t simply a case of moving products from one platform to another. The real work is making sure everything behind the scenes still works - your stock, orders, customers, pricing, fulfilment, integrations and all those little processes your team relies on every day.

After supporting ecommerce brands through migrations, we’ve learnt that the biggest challenges are often the things you don’t think about until they go wrong.

A successful migration is about understanding how the business actually operates, spotting the weak points and making sure the new setup works better than the old one.

That’s the developer thinking that happens behind the scenes at Dev Partners. we're not just moving you to Shopify - we're making sure your business is ready for what comes next.

13/08/2026

Is your business losing time and money to processes that should be automated?

Summer can be a funny time for business.

Everyone’s taking holidays, things slow down a little… and suddenly you have the breathing space to look at what’s actually going on behind the scenes.

So rather than waiting until September and diving straight back into the chaos, why not use the quieter weeks to audit your systems?

Where are you still:
→ Moving data manually?
→ Using spreadsheets that should be connected to your systems?
→ Duplicating work across different platforms?
→ Chasing information that should be automated?
→ Working around outdated processes?

At Dev Partners, we help businesses identify where technology, integrations and better processes could save time, reduce errors and make everyday operations run more efficiently.

We’ve created an Efficiency Audit to help you find those opportunities.

We’ll look at your workflows, CRM, systems, integrations and reporting to identify where your biggest inefficiencies are - and where automation could make a real difference.

Use the quieter months to get your business ready for the busy ones.

Download for your free guide on the link below:

https://devpartners.co.uk/improve-efficiency-checklist.php

Download our free efficiency checklist and find out exactly where your business is losing time and money to manual processes, disconnected systems, and slow workflows.

27/05/2026

🌞 We all know how much the weather drives what we buy in the UK… one minute it’s ice cream and BBQs, the next it’s back to rain jackets.

But it does make you wonder - are ecommerce systems actually keeping up with that level of change in demand?

It’s one thing to see spikes in traffic and sales, but another to make sure your ecommerce site, stock systems, and fulfilment are all talking to each other in real time.

From experience working with retailers at Dev Partners, it’s often not the demand that’s the problem — it’s the gaps between systems that were never really designed to react this fast.

Otherwise the weather might be doing its job… but your stock levels definitely aren’t.

Are most retailers really set up for that kind of flexibility yet?

21/05/2026

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