Production checklist for AI-generated websites

Understand the application

• Identify every framework, runtime, dependency, database and external service.
• Confirm the business owns or is licensed to use included code, fonts, images and data.
• Remove placeholder text, sample users, test routes and unused demonstration features.
• Document how to install, build, start, back up and restore the application.

Complete the security review

• Validate and authorise every server-side action, not only the user interface.
• Protect sign-in, password reset, file upload and administrator functions.
• Use prepared database queries or a trusted data layer and encode output correctly.
• Set secure cookie, session, CORS and security-header behavior for the real domain.
• Scan dependencies and remove packages that are unnecessary, abandoned or unexpectedly privileged.

Check data and privacy

• Collect only the personal data the service needs and state why it is collected.
• Keep production data out of development and AI prompts.
• Define retention, deletion, backup and access rules for customer data.
• Confirm analytics, cookies, email and payment integrations match the published policies.

Test production behavior

1. Run a clean production build using the locked dependency versions.
2. Test the application at mobile and desktop sizes using the production domain and HTTPS.
3. Test authentication, validation, email, payments, uploads and error states that apply.
4. Restart the application and confirm it recovers without local development tools.
5. Check logs, storage, resource limits and backup completion.
6. Run the health check from outside the server.

Prepare the release and rollback

• Deploy an identified commit or release archive.
• Back up the application and database before a destructive migration.
• Keep the previous working release available.
• Write the exact verification steps and the condition that triggers rollback.
• Monitor the first production traffic and error logs instead of assuming a successful upload means a successful release.