Prototypes are always meant to be thrown away though, someone's going to have to redo it to comply with coding standards, scaling requirements, and existing pat

Prototypes are always meant to be thrown away though, someone's going to have to redo it to comply with coding standards, scaling requirements, and existing patterns in the code base. If the prototype can be just dropped in and clear a PR and comply with all the standards, you're just doing software engineering for less money!