Deployment should protect product speed
AI-built SaaS changes fast. A login, billing, or webhook change can go to production the same day. Without a minimum pipeline, the team discovers the issue when the customer uses it.
Security CI should not become bureaucracy. It should block what is objectively dangerous and leave a signal for human review when the impact is unclear.
The useful minimum
- Check dependencies and fail on relevant vulnerabilities.
- Run tests for authentication, authorization, and paid flows.
- Block secrets in commits, exposed variables, and public logs.
- Validate TypeScript, lint, and build before deploy.
- Keep evidence of what passed and what failed.
Good security does not freeze the product. It prevents the product from growing with invisible risk.
