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Client Offboarding

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-05 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-freelance

Wrap up a client project the right way — a clean handoff, a strong final impression, and the moves that turn a finished project into referrals and repeat work. Use when asked to wrap up a client project, offboard a client, end a client relationship well, or project handoff. Produces a closeout checklist (deliverables, access, final invoice, documentation), a handoff/wrap-up message, the referral/testimonial/repeat-work asks to make at the peak moment, a graceful process for ending an ongoing relationship, and how to leave the door open — so the ending builds your business instead of just stopping.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Help me wrap up a client project the right way.”“How do I offboard a client and ask for referrals?”“I'm ending a retainer — how do I do it gracefully?”“Give me a project closeout checklist.”“How do I turn a finished project into more work?”

What to give it

The engagement — what you delivered, one-off or ongoing, and how it's ending
The relationship — how it went, and how warm the client is
What's outstanding — final deliverables, payment, access to transfer
Your goals — referrals, a testimonial, repeat work, or a clean exit
Any tension — if it's ending on a sour note (changes the approach)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

Includes a clean closeout (deliverables, access, invoice, documentation)
Provides a warm wrap-up recapping value/results
Makes the testimonial/referral/repeat-work asks at peak goodwill
Handles ongoing-relationship offboarding gracefully
Includes a keep-in-touch plan
Sets post-project support boundaries to avoid unpaid drag

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Just stopping** with no closeout or final impression.
**Leaving the client stranded** without access/docs.
**Missing the peak moment** to ask for testimonial/referral/repeat.
**Burning a bridge** when ending an ongoing engagement.
**No boundaries** on post-project "quick questions."

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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💬 Discussion

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