Your code, in your repository

The work lands in a code repository you own, and the code we build for you is yours. Changes arrive where your team already looks, in a form they can read.

A drawing of three changes arriving, each with a plain title. Each meets your decision: you approve, you ask or you decline. Approved work joins your repository, under your access and yours from the first day. A note below reads "Nothing to hand over at the end".
  • The work lands in your own repository, and the code we build for you is yours.
  • Each change arrives with a plain note on what it does and why.
  • Stop whenever you choose; there is nothing to hand over, export or unpick.

What you get

The work lands in your own code repository. The code we build for you is yours.

That answers the question many leaders carry into a first conversation: if this goes well, what do I hold at the end, and if it doesn’t, what do I lose? With Zefana you hold the code throughout, in a place you control. You lose nothing by stopping.

Ownership from the first day. There is no moment at which the work is handed over, because it is never somewhere else. Access to the repository stays in your hands, and you decide who else may see it.

Changes your team can read. Each change is a size a person can follow, with a plain title and a short note on what it does and why.

Approval when you choose it. When you choose to approve each change, nothing joins your product until you have said yes.

A clean exit. If you decide to carry on with your own people, they open the same repository they opened yesterday. Nothing has to be unpicked, exported or negotiated.

What it looks like in practice

Imagine it is a Tuesday morning. You open your repository and find new changes waiting, each titled for people, not for machines. You approve the first. You ask a question on the second, because the approach is not what you would have chosen, and you get a revised version. The third you decline, because the priority has shifted since last week. Your product moves where you point it, and the repository shows each step.

For a product leader, progress is something you see where your product actually lives, not in a slide. For a technical leader, the codebase stays yours to inspect, question and extend, and your own developers keep working in the same repository beside the changes that arrive.

When a board member asks who owns the code, or a security reviewer asks where it lives, the answer is the same: in your repository, under your access, and yours.

If you would like to see what this looks like for your product, we can start with one small piece of work in your repository and you can judge the result by what arrives.

Start with one small first piece and judge the result yourself.

Questions leaders ask

Do we have to move our code to somewhere of yours?

No. The work lands in your own code repository, the one you already use. There is nothing to export at the end, because it was never held anywhere else.

Can our own developers read what arrives?

Yes. Each change comes with a plain title and a short explanation of what it does and why, so someone who has never spoken to us can follow it and say yes or no.

What happens to the code if we stop working with you?

It stays with you. The code we build for you is yours, it already sits in your repository, and you can carry on with your own team or with someone else.

Can we choose which changes go in?

You decide what ships. When you choose to approve each change, nothing is added to your product until you have said yes, and you can ask for a different approach before it is.

Lift your eyes and let us carry the rest.

Talk to us and see what carrying your product forward looks like.

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