Every project is a new stack
Different bundlers, ORMs, and hosting per client means no shared muscle memory and no reusable work.
Teams
One stack across every client, and a handover that stands on its own.
Agency work punishes variety: each project with its own assembly of libraries is a maintenance contract nobody priced. A framework with conventions means the fifth project starts where the fourth finished, and the client inherits something documented rather than something bespoke.
What this always turns out to involve.
The work that arrives whether you planned for it or not.
Handover is a cliff
A codebase only its authors understand becomes an open-ended support obligation.
Scope grows sideways
The brochure site needs a shop, then a portal, then an app, and each is a different framework in a typical stack.
Margins live in setup
The hours before the first feature are the least billable and the most repeated.
What is already in the box.
All of it in the same install, typed against the rest of your application.
One layout everywhere
app/, config/, resources/, routes/, and tests/ are the same shape on every project, so context switching is cheap.
Marketing to platform
A site, a store, a CMS, an API, and a dashboard are all the same install, so scope growth is not a re-platform.
Reusable work
Actions, components, and skills carry between projects, and app/Skills/ documents the client-specific parts.
Client-owned infrastructure
config/cloud.ts describes the deploy in the repository, so the client owns their AWS account and the recipe for it.
Handover artefacts
Generated docs, an OpenAPI spec, and tests come out of the project rather than being written for the invoice.
Dependency updates
buddy-bot keeps client projects current on a schedule instead of in an emergency.
The layers it leans on.
Every one of these ships in the same install. Follow one to see what it covers.
From the command line.
Buddy scaffolds, runs, and ships this the same way it does the rest of the app.
bun create stacks client-project
buddy deploy
buddy upgrade:dependencies
Next door to this.
Projects of this shape usually grow into one of these.