- not six weeks in. What's the real constraint? Timeline, budget, team size, data volume. The wrong answer to any of these becomes an expensive rebuild later. I'd rather ask now.
The code is readable, the decisions are documented, and the next engineer - whether that's your team or another contractor - doesn't spend a week just figuring out what I built.
Deployment, monitoring, the first production incident - that's still my problem until handover. 'Works on my machine' is not a deliverable.
Weekly summary by default - what shipped, what's next, what's blocking. If something changes that affects your timeline or budget, you hear it from me first, not when you notice the deadline slipping.