Our Code Is Too Sensitive to Send to Another Service. What Should We Do?

"We want automated code review. Our repositories are private. Sending repository contents to another service creates a security conversation."

There is a simple answer: run the reviewer yourself.

The same choice you already make with databases

This is similar to the choice many engineering teams make with databases. You can use managed PostgreSQL, or you can run PostgreSQL yourself. The database itself is fundamentally the same — what changes is who operates it.

With your own database, you can inspect the processes, configuration, storage, backups, and network connections. You can run your own scanners. You can control access. You can watch what leaves the machine. When someone asks a difficult security question, you can go check — you have the system in front of you.

The same idea applies to AI code review.

LiveReview is built to be self-hosted

LiveReview is designed to be self-hosted, with a low CPU and memory footprint. It's built to fit into an existing engineering environment without becoming another large platform you have to operate.

The source is available on GitHub. You can read the code — every line. You can see what is running, inspect how it works, scan it with your own tools, monitor the network, inspect the database, and put your own security controls around it.

You can also choose the AI provider yourself: OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, a private endpoint, or a model running on your own infrastructure. The system becomes something your team can actually understand and operate end to end.

There's an economic argument too

At low review volume, hosted software buys convenience. As usage grows, running the software yourself can become a very reasonable way to get the same capability at a lower ongoing cost. That's a familiar engineering decision.

At some point, you look at the system and think: "We know how to run this." That's where self-hosting becomes attractive.

You get the capability. You get the control. You can inspect the implementation. And you own the security boundary.

Your code. Your infrastructure. Your reviewer.

Want to see what it takes to run LiveReview on your own infrastructure? Start free and we'll walk you through self-hosted setup.

Related reading: Claude can review code — why do you still need a dedicated reviewer? covers why a separate inspection layer matters even when your team already has AI coding assistants.