Agencies

You build web apps for clients. They ask two questions that keep you up at night: "Where is our data hosted?" and "Can we take over operations when the contract ends?"

Most PaaS platforms make the first question awkward and the second one impossible. Lucity makes both straightforward.

The Agency Problem

You need the speed of a PaaS for development: connect a repo, deploy in minutes, iterate fast. But your clients, especially in regulated industries like banking, insurance, and government, need data residency guarantees and the ability to operate independently after the engagement ends.

Traditional PaaS platforms lock you in. Your deployment configs, environment variables, promotion workflows, database setups. All proprietary, all stuck on the platform. When the contract ends, you hand over source code and a prayer.

Raw Kubernetes is the other extreme. Your team shouldn't need to become infrastructure experts just to ship a client's web app. You have deadlines and budgets, not a platform engineering department.

Deploy on European Infrastructure

Lucity Cloud runs on EU infrastructure today, with Swiss data residency planned for the coming months. When a client asks where their data lives, you have a clear answer: "Europe, and Swiss hosting is on the way."

No Cloud Act concerns. No Schrems II headaches. No awkward conversations with the client's legal team about data transfer adequacy decisions. EU data protection applies today, and Swiss-specific hosting (FADP/nDSG) will be available soon.

For agencies working with Swiss public sector, cantonal institutions, or financial services clients, this roadmap matters. EU hosting covers most compliance needs right now, and Swiss data residency closes the remaining gap.

Hand Over via Eject

When the contract ends, run lucity eject. The client receives:

• Standard Helm charts: the exact same chart that was deploying their application
• ArgoCD configurations: ready-to-use GitOps setup
• Environment configs: development, staging, production, all preserved
• A setup guide: prerequisites, commands, how to modify things going forward

The client points their own ArgoCD at the repo and runs independently. No migration project. No rewrite. No "we need three more months to move off the old platform." Just a clean handoff of standard infrastructure-as-code.

Try asking Railway for an export of your deployment configuration. We'll wait.

The Agency Workflow

Here's what a typical client engagement looks like with Lucity:

1. Develop fast: connect the client's repo, deploy with a click, use PR preview environments for client review. All the PaaS speed you're used to.
2. Deploy to EU infrastructure: Lucity Cloud handles data residency. Your proposal can include "hosted on European infrastructure" without any extra work. Swiss hosting is coming soon.
3. Iterate with the client: PR preview environments let clients review features before they hit staging. No more "can you deploy that to the test server so I can look at it?"
4. Promote through environments: development to staging to production. Image promotion, not rebuilds. Auditable history in Git.
5. Hand over cleanly: when the engagement ends, eject. The client gets everything they need to operate independently. Professional handoff, clean separation.

Your clients get independence. You get repeat business, because agencies that hand over cleanly get referred to the next client.