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Plain, practical writing on taking over, rescuing and running websites and software you did not build. No jargon, no upsell, from the studio that adopts unsupported software.

Five questions to ask before you let anyone build your website.

Before you hire a freelancer, an agency, or build it with AI, five plain questions that quietly tell you who will still be there when your website breaks, and who will not.

Your web developer has disappeared. What to do next.

A calm, practical order to work in when your developer goes quiet: get back into your accounts, secure the domain, take a backup, judge the risk, and decide who runs your site now.

You built an app with AI. Now it needs to survive real users.

It works on your machine, but is it secure, will the database hold up, will payments actually work? What to check before real users arrive, and where a human still has to step in.

You built a website with AI. Now make it findable, safe and yours.

It looks done, but can Google find it, do the forms work, and do you even own it? What to check, and what to do if you are locked into a builder like Wix or Framer.

Website rescue vs adoption: which do you actually need?

Rescue puts out the fire. Adoption makes sure you do not keep having fires. How to tell which one your situation calls for, without paying for more than you need.

How to take over a WordPress site from a previous developer.

Inherited a WordPress site nobody supports? How to get back in, check what state it is in, secure it safely, and keep it running, without breaking the live site.

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