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Why Shipward is handoff-first
Shipward is handoff-first in v1 because customer-environment deployment introduces credential, legal, operational, and approval complexity that the public launch surface does not claim to manage autonomously.
Handoff-first does not mean hands-off. It means the brochure promise stays inside bounded audit, artifact, and governed follow-on work that can be supported honestly.
When a release packet or runbook exists, it is an artifact of an approved engagement, not proof that Shipward deploys directly into every customer environment.
This posture also protects approval boundaries: protected actions, report publication, estimate publication, and risky execution stay explicitly gated.