An exit plan is not a declaration of distrust. It is the ordinary close of a contract that has a term. Without a partner exit plan, the farewell week is a chain of passwords, invoices and licence emails. The release waits.
The list written on day one
Domain and DNS, hosting, repository and organisation, production environment, ads account, measurement property, the sending mail domain, store accounts. On each line the company is the owner, or the line is missing. Account ownership is settled while the relationship is fine. It does not get settled when the relationship is not.
Notice does not lock access
The notice period does not hold the work hostage. Items already on the queue finish or are handed over on purpose. New written scope does not open. Code ownership stays with the company. That is the result of a sentence present from the start, not of the termination letter. The other side does not sell the password as a separate handover fee.
Content and data are on the list
Copy, images, form records and backups belong to the company when they sit inside the account. Personal data processing closes with a deletion or return step at exit. If the only backup is on the partner’s disk, the list is incomplete. Handover is not a race to email attachments.
Leaving does not stop the work
HED Creative is the accountable partner in Berlin and Ankara and writes the exit at the start of the contract. The aim is a partnership that can account for itself. The next partner continues on the same repository and the same ads account, without spending a month on diagnosis.
To put the plan into the written scope, see IT partner. The contract shape of the list: code handover contract.