If I get hit by a bus

Deal Baker Ltd (company 14906367, registered in England and Wales) is one engineer. The bus factor is one. That is a structural property of the model, not an oversight, and the only honest response to it is to publish what has been done about both halves of the problem — the technical half everybody asks about, and the corporate half almost nobody does.

Technical continuity — what a successor receives

Nothing that matters lives anywhere you cannot reach without me:

• Code sits in your own repo organisation from day one. Not mine, not a shared account.
• Infrastructure runs in your own cloud and vendor accounts wherever the vendor permits it.
• Credentials live in your own password manager. You revoke them without asking anyone.
• Documentation lives in your own wiki, written as it goes rather than at the end.

Together those are the handover pack, and there is a written “if I am unavailable” runbook on top of them — what runs, where it runs, what breaks first, what to check, and who to call. See Term 4 — Continuity.

The test of a handover pack is whether a successor can act on it, so it is written for one: a competent engineer who has never met me and cannot ask me anything. See Term 4 — Continuity.

Working hours are 08:00–17:00 CET. Nothing described above depends on backups of anything I hold, because I hold nothing of yours to back up — code, infrastructure and credentials already sit in your own estate, so restore is your operation on your systems, not a promise I make about mine.

Corporate continuity — the half that gets missed

One director and one shareholder is the ordinary shape of a company like this, and it has an ordinary failure mode that rarely reaches a page like this one: on the death of the sole director and shareholder, the shares pass through probate. Probate takes months. In those months the company can freeze — invoices cannot be raised or paid, intellectual property cannot be assigned, and a perfectly healthy engagement stalls on a legal formality rather than on anything technical.

The fix is done rather than intended: a successor director is appointed in advance, with signed instructions and a cross-option agreement, so authority passes without waiting for probate. See Term 4 — Continuity.

Where this is written down

The supplier-facing detail — invoicing, data protection, security posture, offboarding — is on the procurement register. Who is behind the company is on the who page.