The First Client Onboarding & Contracts Kit Nobody Wrote (Until Now)

You landed your first client. Congratulations — now the real work begins, and it has nothing to do with writing code or designing screens. The gap between "we're interested" and "invoice paid" is where most freelancers bleed out. Scope creep, vague deliverables, awkward payment chases, clients disappearing after you delivered. I've watched talented developers lose thousands of dollars not because they couldn't build the thing, but because they never built the system around the thing. Here's the