Solution
Reversibility pack
A provider holding your domain names, your administrator access and the only copy of your configuration doesn’t need to be malicious to block you. Being busy elsewhere is enough.
The way out, before you need it
The assets are in your name
Domain names, cloud subscriptions, licences and code repositories, checked one by one. It’s the check most rarely run.
Access exists in duplicate
An administrator account that belongs to you, in your own vault, on every system. Without it, a handover starts with a negotiation.
My own exit is written down
One person is a single point of failure, and saying so is more honest than ignoring it. What I hold is documented so that somebody else can pick it up.
You negotiate change better
Knowing what leaving costs changes the renewal conversation, including when you stay.
In practice
- Ownership check: domain names, subscriptions, licences, repositories, cloud accounts
- Break-glass administrator accounts in your name, deposited in your own vault
- Data exported in a format readable without the tool that produced it
- Transition documentation: what runs, where, and what to do first
- An inventory of contracts and their notice periods
- A handover rehearsal: a third party follows the documentation and reports what is missing
Systems involved
- Domain registrars and DNS providers
- Microsoft, Google and hosting subscription portals
- The team password manager
- Code repositories and backup systems
- Service contracts and the termination terms in force
Service lineServers and hosting →
Which dependencies
The same work, against each sector’s own constraints. Every card opens the full sector.
Banking and insurance
Provider reversibility
Ownership of access, exports readable without the original tool and transition documentation, prepared before internal review asks for them.
Healthcare and life sciences
Continuity of research computing
Access, repositories and exports readable without the original tool, for a platform that outlives every individual environment.
How it runs
Ownership
Who holds what, verified in the consoles rather than from the contract. The two often diverge.
Access
Break-glass accounts created in your name, deposited in your vault, and tried once.
Data
Exports readable without the original tool, with the frequency and the destination.
Rehearsal
Somebody who didn’t build the environment follows the pack, and whatever blocks them is fixed.
Dependencies and next steps
Test the fit: Reversibility pack
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