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A founder's step-by-step guide to terminating a dev shop relationship, securing your code, and finding a better partner without repeating the same mistake.

Field guide for non-technical founders hiring development agencies. Red flags, evaluation frameworks, contract templates, and what to do when it goes wrong.

The worst dev shops don't miss deadlines - they miss them quietly. Eight warning signs your agency is hiding bad code, and what to do about it.

Most founders ask 'what's your rate?' first. Here are the 5 questions that predict whether a dev shop will deliver - or disappear with your code.

Five SLA requirements for your dev shop contract: response times, fix windows, uptime, a definition of done, and a penalty clause that actually bites.

How to switch development agencies without losing your code: the 30-day overlap, the cold-start deploy drill, and what the next team needs on day one.

Retros for non-technical founders: what a retrospective is, what the one-page summary should say, and why a repeated action item is your best warning sign.

Under US copyright law the code your dev shop writes is not yours by default - a signed clause makes it yours. Five clauses to check, plus one command to run first.

You asked for a simple admin panel and got an over-engineered MVP. The feature-noun check to run on your own spec, and the 90-minute rewrite that stops it.