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Aikido × Lovable: Vibe, Fix, Ship

Written by
Madeline Lawrence

You already know this feeling. You built something with Lovable. It works. People are loving it. And somewhere in the back of your mind, there's a question you haven't fully answered yet: could you prove it's secure?

Lovable already provides products with a Security Scanner that automatically catches exposed secrets, misconfigured database policies, and common vulnerabilities before you publish. That catches real issues early, and it matters. It’s what gets you to a secure baseline before you ship. 

But there's a difference between reviewing code and testing a live application. Some issues only surface when everything is running together: how endpoints respond to unexpected inputs, whether access controls hold up across different user flows, what happens when a seasoned hacker deliberately pushes the boundaries. 

The only way to find that out is to have someone try. Today, that someone is Aikido. And it's available directly inside Lovable.

For full details on how pentesting your Lovable apps works, register for our live session 'Securing Lovable apps with Aikido', here.

What Aikido Does Inside Lovable

Aikido deploys a swarm of specialized agents against your live application. They try to hack it the way a real attacker would: probing your login, attempting to access other users' data, chaining small weaknesses together into real exploit paths, testing your APIs, and adapting to how your app responds. 

The security industry has relied on penetration testing for this for decades: testing the real, running application under real conditions, finding what's actually exploitable rather than what's theoretically risky.

But penetration testing was built for a different era. Until now.

The traditional pentest model assumes a mature application, a dedicated security budget, and weeks of lead time. That doesn't match the reality of vibe-coded software. Most Lovable applications are early-stage, still evolving fast, and built by founders spending their budget on product and growth. For enterprises, the bottleneck is different, but the problem is the same: teams are shipping Lovable apps across the organization faster than any security review process can keep up with, and nobody is commissioning a $20,000 pentest for internal vibe-coded tools or re-routing critical red team resources away from the crown jewels. 

Advances in AI have changed what's possible here. The same depth of testing that used to require a team of senior security consultants over multiple weeks can now be delivered by autonomous agents in hours, at a price point that makes sense for applications at every stage of maturity. This is penetration-level depth, adapted for the vibe code era.

These autonomous offensive agents reason about application behavior, chain multi-step attack paths, leverage an extensive tool suite, and validate exploitability through real exploitation.

When the test finishes, you get a clear report. Every finding is explained in plain language: what was found, why it matters, and step-by-step instructions to reproduce the issue and fix it. Just click the button in Lovable to fix all the issues and their agent will do everything for you.

Lovable's scanner and Aikido's penetration test are complementary. The scanner is like a senior engineer reviewing your code, catching theoretical issues in your code early. Aikido shows you what a hacker can actually do with your app once it’s live. 

How It Works

To get the full breakdown, join our live session with Lovable CISO Igor Andriushchenko and Aikido's security expert Mackenzie Jackson here.

  1. Open your Lovable project and enable Aikido (Settings > Connectors > Shared Connectors)
  2. Navigate to your project’s security tab and launch a pentest
  3. Log in to Aikido with your Aikido account details 
  4. Start a security test. Aikido's agents go to work on your live app. You can view agents hacking, reasoning, and exploiting in real-time!
  5. Review pentest findings in Aikido or Lovable.
  6. Fix in Lovable with one click of the “Try Fix All” button and publish with confidence.

For Founders Getting Serious

25 million projects. 100,000 new apps every day….Many Lovable builders are taking their ideas to the next level and starting companies. You've gone from idea to working product. Customers are signing up. Maybe you're raising your first round, or your second. Enterprise buyers are asking about security. You're looking at security questionnaires and wondering where to start.

This is the moment where "I trust it's secure" needs to become "I can prove it's secure."

An Aikido pentest test gives you that proof. Something you can point to when someone asks. The test report is designed to be shared, be that with investors during due diligence, in your compliance process, or with an enterprise prospect who requires insight into your security posture.

What you get as a founder:

  • A security test of your live application
  • A shareable report you can share with investors, customers, and external auditors
  • Direct remediation or plain-language fix instructions you paste into Lovable to resolve issues
  • Confidence that what you're putting in front of customers actually holds up

Pricing: For launch, we’re offering a special $100 per test for Lovable apps. We're also running free Security weekends where you can test your app at no cost. Keep an eye out for announcements. 

Lovable applications tend to follow consistent patterns (React frontend, Supabase backend, edge functions), which means Aikido's agents can test them thoroughly at the standard scope. 90% of Lovable apps fit here. For larger or more complex applications, we offer scalable pricing with an in-app calculator that estimates the scope needed for high-confidence depth.

For Enterprise Teams Building on Lovable

Lovable is increasingly used inside large organizations. Teams are building internal tools, client portals, dashboards, booking systems, and all sorts of applications that get connected to the company network or published to the internet.

Some of these are simple. Some handle sensitive data. All of them represent potential exposure once they’re live and in use.

Aikido lets you test your full portfolio of Lovable applications. Instead of wondering which apps might have problems, you can automatically test each one and get a clear picture of your security posture across everything your team has shipped. 

What this looks like for enterprise teams:

  • Test any Lovable application your team has published, from the internal birthday calendar to a bespoke client-facing portal
  • Get visibility into security across your full portfolio of Lovable apps
  • Use shareable PDF reports for internal security reviews and client requirements
  • Continuous testing is on the roadmap, so you can monitor ongoing security as applications evolve in your growing portfolio of vibe-coded applications

If your organization is evaluating Lovable for broader adoption, having a trusted external security firm test the applications your team produces is a meaningful part of that conversation.

Read: How Aikido secures AI pentesting agents by design

Two European Unicorns Defining AI-Native Development

Two European unicorns, one leading AI-powered software development, the other AI-native security, join forces. This is the first time a vibe coding platform has embedded agentic security testing into the build flow.

The way software gets built has genuinely changed. Vibe coding has made it possible to go from idea to working software incredibly fast. A founder can go from idea to live product in a weekend. A product team can ship an internal tool in a day. The tools that enable this speed are extraordinary. But until now, the security tooling available to these builders has been limited to what can be done inside the platform itself. This partnership changes that. Every Lovable builder now has access to the kind of security validation that was previously reserved for companies with dedicated security teams, giving them the confidence to push to production.

Lovable's Security Scanner is a strong foundation. It catches real issues and it's built into the workflow where it matters. What Aikido adds is the perspective of an external security firm, testing the actual running application the way an outsider would. That outside view is what most teams don’t have by default. The combination is powerful: internal checks plus external validation.

Aikido is Europe's only software security unicorn, trusted by over 50,000 organizations including n8n, the Premier League, SoundCloud, Revolut, Deel, and Niantic. Our platform covers code security, cloud security, runtime security, and offensive security. 

Lovable is the most widely adopted AI app builder in the world, with over $300M in ARR and a $6.6B valuation. Their platform lets anyone build full-stack web applications, because some ideas are too loud to ignore.

Together, we're giving every Lovable builder greater confidence to push to production.

Get Started

Open your Lovable project and enable Aikido (Settings > Connectors > Shared Connectors). Navigate to your project’s security tab and launch a pentest through Aikido. 

Vibe. Fix. Ship.

If you're a founder that wants to secure your Lovable app, find out exactly how it works by registering for Lovable and Aikido's live session here.

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