The journey begins with a structured briefing of 18 questions, answered asynchronously, followed by a technical report returned within 7 business days with a diagnosis, architectural assumptions, scope by layer, and a phased investment plan. After a 90-minute technical meeting without commercial commitment, the contract formalizes the SLA, transfer plan, and exit clauses. Onboarding provisions repositories and cloud accounts in the client’s name from commit zero. Development occurs in bi-weekly cycles with versioned ADRs, reviewed code, and an accessible staging environment. Each release undergoes automated testing, security auditing, and performance budget validation as a build criterion. Continuous operation includes monitoring, verified backups, quarterly pentesting with mandatory retesting, and dependency updates, with a separate operational monthly fee from the construction investment. Transfer, when requested, delivers source code, infrastructure as code, technical documentation, and credentials, without additional exit costs—the asset belongs to the client from the beginning, and the contractual relationship can be terminated without asset loss.
