# The CivilCode Playbook ## Mission To craft reliable and sustainable software that powers your business using transparent and collaborative practices. ## Values * Share ownership * Build reliably and sustainably * Be transparent * Invest in relationships ## Details * Shared Ownership: not one person stuck with a project, someone else can deploy/launch, redundancy * Reliability: build things that work (i.e. we can sleep at night, we can be on vacation without interruption, that includes the customer) * Sustainability: continual investment from client, we can continually add features * Transparency: clients being upfront about budgets, be upfront about our mistakes * Professional Development: investing in ourselves and other team members * Efficiency: good, repeatable processes, consistency across projects, agreed set of technologies ## About the CivilCode Collective The [CivilCode Collective](http://www.civilcode.io), a group of freelance developers, build tailored business applications in [Elixir](http://elixir-lang.org/) and [Phoenix](http://www.phoenixframework.org/) in Montreal, Canada. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://civilcode.gitbook.io/playbook/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.