Shipping SZN
Summary
AI coding tools ship apps that score well on features and fail silently on auth, leaked secrets, and uncapped API routes — and nobody finds out until the incident.
shippingszn is a pre-launch scanner built specifically for AI-built apps. Point it at a URL and it returns a scored readiness band, severity counts, and a breakdown across security headers, auth flow gaps, rate-limit exposure, AEO/GEO schema visibility, broken redirects, sitemap issues, and placeholder copy. The free CLI gives you the score and severity buckets — enough to know whether launch is safe. Full findings, the remediation punch list, and a written launch decision are behind a one-time paid upgrade. Teams who need continuous monitoring or post-launch scanning will find it has nothing to offer there.
Bottom line: Run this the day before an AI app goes live and you will catch the auth gaps and exposed API routes that vibe-coded scaffolding quietly skips — but if your workflow needs scheduled rescans or CI pipeline integration, this tool stops at the one-shot report.
Pricing Plans
- Price
- $49
- Free Tier
- CLI returns score, severity counts, and readiness band only
Launch Fix Kit
$49 one-time for full findings, checklist, report, and verification steps
- Full scan findings
- Paid checklist and report
- AI-builder punch list
- Verification steps
- Launch decision
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Scans for AI-specific API exposure gaps — uncapped routes without rate limits — so a scraper or runaway client does not drain your LLM budget on day one.
- Catches missing auth flows that AI coding tools routinely scaffold around, so you are not discovering unauthenticated endpoints from an incident report.
- Covers AEO/GEO schema visibility alongside traditional security checks, which means your app is not invisible to AI answer engines at launch while you're focused only on uptime.
- Free CLI returns a scored readiness band with severity counts, so a team can make a go/no-go call without committing budget before seeing whether the tool finds anything worth fixing.
- One-shot scan with no account setup or pipeline changes required, so there is no integration cost blocking you from running it the night before launch.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The tool runs once against a URL and stops — there is no scheduling, no re-scan trigger, and no CI hook, so any regression introduced after the initial scan goes undetected until someone manually runs it again.
- Full remediation detail is behind a paid upgrade; the free output tells you something is broken but not specifically what to fix or how to verify the fix, which forces a purchasing decision mid-sprint when time pressure is highest.
- Teams whose launch process requires audit trails, ticketed findings, or integration with existing security tooling will find no API and no export format — the output is a report, not a data feed, and that is the condition under which they move to a dedicated DAST or API security scanner instead.
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- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-20T12:29:19.848Z
Best For
Who it's for
- AI app developers preparing for launch
- Teams needing quick readiness scoring
- Builders addressing AI-specific API and visibility gaps
What it does well
- Pre-launch security and auth audit for AI apps
- Rate limit and API exposure checks
- AEO/GEO and schema visibility assessment
- Deployment risk and redirect validation
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- Is Shipping SZN free?
- Shipping SZN has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $49). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Shipping SZN open source?
- No — Shipping SZN is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
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Most AI coding assistants optimize for getting something running. They do not optimize for what happens when real traffic hits an uncapped API route, a secret leaks through a response header, or a bot indexes your app before your schema tells it what to do with the content. shippingszn runs a one-shot pre-launch scan against a URL and returns a scored readiness band with severity-bucketed findings across leaked secrets, missing auth flows, weak security headers, rate-limit gaps on AI API routes, AEO/GEO and schema visibility, broken redirects, sitemap problems, placeholder copy, and deployment risk.
The differentiating angle is the category of checks, not just the existence of checks. Standard security scanners catch headers and redirects. shippingszn also flags the AI-specific gaps — uncapped routes that burn your API budget when scraped, missing structured data that keeps your app invisible to AI answer engines, and auth flows that vibe-coded scaffolding commonly omits entirely. These are the failure modes that show up after launch, not during development.
The free CLI tier returns a score, severity counts, and a launch-readiness band — enough to make a go/no-go call. The full findings, remediation checklist, AI-builder punch list, verification steps, and written launch decision are a paid-only feature. The tool is a one-shot scanner with no API, no self-hosted option, and no autonomous re-scanning loop, which means it fits cleanly into a pre-launch checklist and fits nowhere else. Teams who need continuous monitoring, CI integration, or post-deploy drift detection will exhaust what this tool does after the first run.