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Who actually controls your technology?

Ten questions about the platform your company depends on.

A company can own a product it cannot deploy, cannot restore, cannot move and cannot hand to anybody else. It usually finds out on the week the relationship with the people who built it ends — and by then the people who could have prevented it are gone.

Nobody signs a contract intending to lose their repository. They sign one that does not mention it, and then three years pass. This check asks the ten questions that establish where you actually stand, and states what each gap costs in the terms it will eventually cost it in.

Who this is for

It is for a product that already exists and that somebody else built, or maintains, or hosts.

  • a founder whose platform is live and was built by an external team
  • a company considering a change of vendor, or preparing for one
  • a new CTO or technical lead inheriting a system they did not build
  • anyone facing due diligence, an audit or an acquisition where control has to be demonstrable

It is not for a project that has not been built yet. Fintech Project Readiness asks the questions that matter before there is anything to control. Fintech Project Readiness

What is asked

Ten questions, drawn from the checklist FinMV's Ownership and Project Continuity audit works through. That audit is a package you run in your own environment; what you send back is its structured result. These ten you answer yourself in ninety seconds, and "not sure" is a real answer that counts as one.

01

Repository and code

Whose account the source lives in, and whether your company has owner access to it today rather than a promise of one.

02

Production and root access

Whose cloud account production runs in, and who holds the credentials that can change everything: server root, cloud owner, database superuser.

03

Domain, DNS and provider accounts

Who controls the domain, and whose name the payment provider, the KYC provider and the cloud account are registered to.

04

Backups and data

Whether backups exist, whether anybody has ever restored one, and whether you could export your own investor and transaction data today without asking anyone.

05

Documentation and handover

Whether a replacement team could pick this up from what is written down, or would have to rediscover the system by reading it.

06

Key-person dependency

How many people could keep this running, and whether anyone could take it over if the current developers stopped tomorrow.

Where this stands today

The check is not open for self-service yet. What it describes is not a plan — the same ten questions and the same consequences run today inside FinMV Workspace, and the eighteen-item checklist behind them is packaged to be run in your own environment, with a structured result sent back rather than the code itself. What is missing is the door: a way to answer the ten without an account first.

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What it cannot do

  • It reads your answers and nothing else. FinMV has no access to your systems and does not want any.
  • It cannot verify a claim. "We have backups" and "we have restored a backup" are different answers, and the check can only record which one you gave.
  • It is not a security assessment. Control and security overlap and are not the same question.
  • It is not a legal opinion on your contracts. It asks what is true in practice, which is frequently not what the contract says.
  • Ten questions establish where to look. The full Ownership and Project Continuity checklist has eighteen items and is worked through against the system itself rather than against your recollection of it.