01 — the fragility
One laptop crash away from gone
No deploy pipeline, no backups, no second person who understands it. If the owner's machine dies or they leave, the tool — and often the only copy of the data behind it — goes with them.
For the apps your team already depends on
Somebody on your team already built
the tool you can't afford to lose.
It runs on a laptop, a free-tier host, or nowhere durable at all. Nobody can safely touch it, secure it, or explain what happens if it disappears. Garden takes that app — whole app, backend and data included — and makes it a properly hosted, secured, governed piece of your infrastructure. In your own cloud, not ours.
The problem
Your company is running on tools nobody signed off on.
An ops manager needed a dashboard, so they built one with an AI coding assistant over a weekend. It worked. People started depending on it. Eighteen months later it's quietly load-bearing — scheduling shifts, tracking inventory, running payroll checks — and it still lives exactly where it was born: a laptop, a personal Replit account, a free-tier box nobody's renewed the domain on.
02 — the exposure
Nobody can safely touch it
Hardcoded credentials, no access controls, no idea what data it holds or where it lives. IT can't secure what they don't know exists. That's shadow IT — and it's a real operational risk, not a hypothetical one.
03 — the standstill
Too load-bearing to touch, too risky to keep
Replacing it means months of a "real" engineering project for something that already works. Leaving it alone means betting the business on a laptop. Most companies just... leave it alone.
How it works
From "someone's laptop" to production, without a rebuild.
Garden repairs the app you already have — it doesn't ask you to recreate it in a new tool.
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Upload the app
Hand over a zip, a GitHub repo, or just the URL it's running at. Any stack — Flask and SQLite, Node, a Replit project, whatever it actually is. Nothing to rewrite first.
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An agent repairs it
Hardcoded secrets get pulled out and put in a real secret manager. Ports get bound properly. Data moves off local disk onto managed, backed-up storage. Every change is narrated in plain language — for the owner, not a diff only an engineer could read.
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Publish and share
The app gets a real URL and is shared with the owner's whole team by default — not locked down and forgotten. The right people can reach it; the wrong people can't.
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Keep changing it, safely
Month two always brings a new request. Garden supports ongoing edits without ever touching live traffic during a bad one — so the app keeps evolving instead of calcifying the moment it's "done."
Coming next
A fleet view of every app we've touched — migrated, in repair, waiting — and a plain, boring status page per app: is it up, what it costs per month, who can get in, and when it was last backed up. The goal is an inventory of internal tools that used to have none.
Why it's different
Not a new place to build. A way to keep what you built.
The usual answers
- Rebuild it properly. Months of engineering time for a tool that already works, spent because nobody trusts how it was made.
- Import it into a builder platform. Works if the app happens to be a React front end that maps onto someone else's runtime — most vibe-coded tools aren't, and the app now runs on the vendor's infrastructure, not yours.
- Leave it alone. The default. Also the riskiest option, and the one most companies are quietly choosing today.
Garden
- Any stack, whole app. Flask and SQLite from a laptop, a Node app from Replit, whatever it actually is — backend and data included, not just a UI to re-skin.
- Runs in your own cloud. Your GCP project, your account. If Garden disappeared tomorrow, your apps keep running. Nothing lives on our infrastructure.
- Repaired, not rebuilt. The app you already trust, made safe to run — and kept that way as it keeps changing.
Security
Everything happens where you can already see it.
Garden isn't asking for your trust in a black box. It's asking to work inside infrastructure you already control.
BYOC
Runs in your own cloud
Every app is deployed into your cloud project — today, GCP. Your billing, your audit logs, your existing security tooling all still apply.
NO LOCK-IN
Nothing lives on our infrastructure
If Garden shut down tomorrow, the apps we've repaired keep running exactly where they are. We're not the host. We're the crew that made the house sound.
PLAIN LANGUAGE
A change log a person can read
Every repair and every future edit is narrated in plain English for the owner — what changed, why, and what it means — never just a diff dropped on someone who didn't write code in the first place.
NO SURPRISE OUTAGES
Edits never touch live traffic mid-change
Ongoing changes are staged and verified before they reach the version people are actually using, so a bad edit doesn't become a bad afternoon for your team.
Get in touch
Find out what's quietly running your company.
Tell us about the tool you're most worried about — the spreadsheet-replacement, the scheduling app, the thing one person built and everyone now depends on. We'll show you what repairing and hosting it in your own cloud actually looks like.