Our story
We built the runbook we kept wishing we had.
The Handover Folder started as one on-call engineer’s folder of ‘how this actually works’ notes — and the quiet realization that those notes were the product.
It started with a 2am ping
Like you, we knew our systems cold — and paid for it by being the only one who did. Every holiday came with a phone kept close. Every handover was a rushed afternoon of “oh, and one more thing.” The knowledge was fine. The fact that it lived in one head was the problem.
So we built a runbook, not a rulebook
We are not here to sell you a heavyweight process. We built the smallest system that turns “only I can run this” into “anyone on the team can”: one runbook per service, a shared shape, and a habit of writing the answer down the first time you find it.
A runbook, not a secrets vault
One principle runs through everything: a runbook holds knowledge, never credentials. Keep your keys in a real secrets store. Keep the how-it-works in The Handover Folder. That line is what makes a runbook safe to share, search, and read half-asleep at 2am.
Independent and quiet by design
No venture funding, no growth-hack newsletter, no account to create. Just a calm tool made by people who got tired of being the single point of failure — and fixed it.
Disclaimer: The Handover Folder is a documentation tool, not a secrets manager. Never paste credentials, tokens, or private keys into a runbook — reference them from your real secrets store.