Good studios plan for the day they leave, even when they expect to stay for years. It keeps us honest, and it protects clients from the situation many of them come to us from: a product nobody fully understands, built by a team that is gone.
Everything lives in your accounts
Repositories, cloud resources, app store listings, domains, analytics and third-party services are created in the client's accounts from day one. We are invited as members. Nothing needs to be transferred at the end because nothing was ever ours.
The package itself
- Architecture overview: services, data flows and key decisions with their reasons.
- Setup guide that gets a new developer from zero to a running app in one day.
- Runbooks for deployments, rollbacks, incidents and common support tasks.
- A list of every external service, what it does and who pays for it.
- Known issues and technical debt, written honestly and prioritised.
- Design files and the component library, matched to the code.
None of this is written in a rush at the end. It grows with the project, reviewed in the same pull requests as the code it describes.