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What a clean handover to your in-house team looks like

Readable code, living docs and a four to eight week overlap. How we hand products over without a cliff edge.

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Delivery Lead

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Sofia Marín

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Plan the exit on day one

Many of our clients hire their own engineers once the product finds its feet. We plan for that from the first sprint, so the handover is a calm transition instead of a scramble.

Code people can read

Consistent patterns, typed interfaces and tests around the core flows matter more than clever code. A new developer should be able to ship a small change in their first week.

Documentation that stays current

We keep architecture notes, runbooks and decision records next to the code, not in a forgotten wiki. Every pull request that changes behaviour updates them.

Overlap, not a cliff

The best handovers run for four to eight weeks. Your new hires pair with our engineers, own features with us as backup, then take the lead while we review. By the end they are shipping on their own.

→ Shared on-call for the first month

→ Weekly knowledge sessions on the trickiest parts

→ A final review of open risks and next steps

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