For Gabefrom Zion · July 2026 · the short version

Before anyone signs in, we make it bulletproof.

You're building an app where brands, creators, and agencies all do business in one place. That's a real company holding real money and real people's data, and there's a short list of rules that apply to it from day one. This page is the whole engagement in five minutes. The deck walks through it screen by screen.

Why now

What I actually do

Six areas, 55 specific checks, one scorecard. Ad-disclosure rules, privacy (including a real 13-and-up age gate), money and taxes, content rights (who can legally reuse a creator's video, music included), app-store approval, and security. Every check gets a score, and I only mark something done when I've verified it myself.

Then I try to break in. I sign in as a brand, a creator, and an agency on a private test copy full of made-up data, and try to reach things each one shouldn't see: other companies' data, payout redirection, faked payment signals, the admin console. Critical findings block launch, no exceptions, and I retest fixes for free.

You also get a written data promise: what you collect, where it lives (bank and tax details go in Stripe's vault, not your database), how long you keep it, and deletion that actually deletes.

Four things you could start this week, no code required: register the $6 copyright contact with the Copyright Office (it activates the legal shield for user uploads), calendar its three-year renewal, publish a three-strikes policy for repeat offenders and log every strike, and write down the ad-disclosure program. That's four of your ten biggest risks handled with paperwork.

The plan

About six weeks, three phases. Weeks 1–2: walkthrough and the full 55-check scorecard. Weeks 2–4: break-in testing plus the data plan. Weeks 4–6: I support your devs closing the findings, verify the fixes, and hand over the final report with a step-by-step roadmap. The schedule flexes to your launch date, and it's me personally doing the work.

The deal

No price tag on this one. I do the full engagement, everything above at full rigor, and when it's delivered you tip whatever the work turned out to be worth to you. You're a friend backing a launch I want to see happen, and I'd rather have the money conversation when you're holding the finished work than while it's all still promises.

Nothing about the work changes: critical findings still block launch, retesting fixes is still included, and it's me personally doing it. If you later want the deep specialist penetration test or ongoing compliance help after launch, we'll figure those out the same way, between us.

What I need from you

The stack details from your Mac mini (hosting, database, Stripe setup, login, third-party tools), a test copy of the app with sample accounts, any policy drafts you have, and a few days' turnaround when I send things for review. Anything marked sharpens with your stack in the full documents gets finalized once those details arrive; nothing waits on them.

Straight talk: I'm a compliance and security analyst, not a lawyer, so your lawyer signs off on final legal language. Stripe's own systems aren't mine to test, only how your app connects to them.

Launch once. Launch clean.