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HandoffJune 4, 20266 min read
Developer Handoff Without Two Weeks of Discovery
When a freelancer leaves or you hire your first engineer, product memory beats Slack threads and git blame.
What the new developer actually needs
Architecture notes, open priorities, verification status, and decisions — not a tour of every folder.
RAAV exports a handoff package from product memory: goals, tickets, submit history, and founder-approved truth.
Avoid the discovery-phase tax
Traditional handoffs burn calendar time reconstructing why choices were made. Agent-built products make this worse because work is spread across many sessions.
Audit trail from `raav submit` shows what shipped, what was verified, and what remains open.
First day checklist
Share the product handbook, active lanes, and top three tickets with verification commands.
Have the new developer claim a lane before touching production paths.