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Agency Transfer

Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.

Most weeks we get an email from a founder who is six months into a build that should have shipped in three. The agency promises 'next sprint' every Friday. Standups stopped two months ago. The founder pays a retainer to watch nothing ship. We take these projects. We finish them. Two weeks, $1K–$30K, the work that survived the previous team stays.

From$1,000·14 days·Flat price, your code from day one.

What you get

Concrete deliverables.
Not a slide deck.

  • Day 1–2 code and contract audit: what works, what is half-built, where the IP risk is
  • Day 3 take possession: repo into your GitHub org, infra to your accounts, every secret rotated
  • Day 4–7 foundation: CI with real tests, RLS lockdown, observability, main-branch protection
  • Day 8–14 finish + ship: close the gap between 'claimed done' and 'actually working', deploy to production

Why us

The shape of the work matters.

  • We've taken over eight transfer projects this quarter — same five failure patterns every time
  • We give you the literal email script to fire your current team without burning bridges
  • We don't restart from scratch — we finish the 70 percent the previous team had half-built
  • Average customer churn during our last three transfer engagements was zero

FAQ

Questions founders ask.

What does the transfer process look like?

Five steps over 14 days: audit + walk-away email script (Day 1–2), take possession (Day 3), foundation (Day 4–7), finish what they started (Day 8–12), ship and document (Day 13–14).

Will my current dev team make this difficult?

Usually no. Most disengage cleanly once the final invoice is paid and the notice period is honored. We give you the script. Contracts we have written for clients survive every transfer we've done.

How do I get the code back if they gatekeep?

Demand the seven-item handover before paying the final invoice: repo ownership, full commit history, every secret in your password manager, cloud accounts transferred, README, runbook, and a scheduled access-revocation date.

Can you finish what they started?

Yes, in most cases. Starting over throws away your investment. We close gaps in existing code. Roughly half the time we keep most of it and ship in week two.

How much does the transfer cost?

$1K–$30K flat-price after the audit. Lower end for projects where the previous team left a clean (if incomplete) codebase. Upper end for full two-week engagements with two engineers.

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