Build on your own accounts from day one
Who holds the repository, the cloud account and the AI keys decides how easy it is to change partners, hire a team or raise the next round. Why we build on the client’s own accounts from the first day.
Many outsourced products start on the vendor’s accounts “to move faster”, and move later. Later is when it hurts: the migration costs weeks, credentials are scattered, and nobody is sure what still depends on the vendor. We do the opposite: the product lives on the client’s own accounts from the first day.
What “your own accounts” means
- Your code repository. Every change lands there, reviewed, with its history.
- Your cloud and database. On a recent AI product, it ran on the client’s own accounts from 1 May, five weeks into the build.
- Your AI provider key. You see the usage and the bill directly.
- Your customers’ data stays theirs. On that product, customers connect their own CRM in one click, read-only; the client connected theirs on the live system.
Why it matters after a round
- Diligence is simpler. An investor’s technical review finds the product where the company is, not on a supplier’s laptop.
- Hiring is simpler. Your first engineer gets access to everything on day one.
- Leaving is possible. A full data download was built into the product: 21 tables, verified. Nothing traps you.
And the code itself
All IP rights in the code we deliver transfer to the client once every agreed payment is made, and there is no product of ours underneath to license. Building on your accounts from the start makes that transfer a formality: the code is already where it belongs.
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The examples in this article come from real engagements. Client details withheld; every figure comes from the client’s own data.
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