Most agencies sell autonomy and ship dependency. We architect the opposite. Repository, accounts, API keys, prompts, and evaluations live with you from the first commit, so the day you decide to run this without us is a transfer, not a rebuild.
Pick the model that matches your team's appetite for ownership. Switch models when that appetite changes.
Outright ownership after a short warranty window. We build, we transfer, we step out.
You own everything from day one. We stay embedded as the operator and architect that keeps it sharp.
We host, we operate, you ship. Cleanest operations, highest lock-in, you trade autonomy for zero ops load.
Autonomy is a posture only if you can't back it up. These are the seven mechanics we sign into every engagement so the handoff survives the day it happens.
Every environment is reproducible from a single command. Nothing lives only in someone's head or someone's laptop.
All credentials land in your 1Password or Bitwarden vault, scoped by environment, with an audit trail on every share.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and every third-party service is billed to your account from day one. No reseller markup, no opaque pass-through invoices, no hostage data. We architect against your keys; you can rotate or revoke them without us.
Every system prompt, tool schema, retrieval index, and evaluation set is versioned in a repository you own. You walk away with the brain of the AI, not just the wrapper around it.
A single document names the admin, the billing contact, and the recovery path for every service in the stack. No mystery seats.
Walkthroughs for the top failure modes, written and recorded, so the next engineer who touches the system has a map, not a mystery. The matrix, the runbook, and the repo transfer all come out of kyur-handoff, the internal tool we run on your engagement — handoff is software for us, not a memo.
The terms for stepping back are signed before the work starts. Handoff is a milestone, not a negotiation.
| Surface | Full handoff | Hybrid | Managed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code repo | Client | Client | Kyur (mirrored) |
| Domain & DNS | Client | Client | Client |
| Third-party accounts | Client | Client | Kyur |
| API keys (LLM / Stripe) | Client | Client | Client (pass-through) |
| Prompt & context vault | Client | Client | Client |
| Credentials | Client | Client | Kyur |
| Monitoring | Client | Kyur | Kyur |
| Iteration | Client | Kyur | Kyur |
| Incident response | Client | Kyur | Kyur |
| Strategic review | Optional tune-up | Quarterly | Quarterly |
| Pricing model | Project + handoff fee | Project + retainer | Project + retainer |
The premise
If a system can't survive without us, we didn't build it well. Book a call and we'll walk through which handoff model fits the team you have today, and the team you'll have a year from now.