Handoff
Handoff is a web-based team memory product for engineering teams that ship with AI.
What Handoff is
Handoff is a web-based team memory product for engineering teams that ship with AI. It gathers decisions from agent sessions, pull requests, tickets, and standups into a searchable trail containing rationale, provenance, alternatives, and source. A knowledge graph links people, projects, services, and decisions, helping users explore relationships and what a change may affect. Agent sessions, PRs, and tickets can enter through MCP, while meeting transcripts and handoffs support semantic search. Slack and email deliver prompts and digests. Agents and MCP connections are unlimited and do not count as paid seats; billing is per human. The Team Plan costs $39 a month per user and includes all features, one year of searchable history, and three years of decisions. Searchable content retention can range from 30 to 730 days; the decision trail lasts three years. Enterprise uses custom terms and volume pricing, with SSO/SAML, custom security review, BYOK, and extended governance.
Good
- Searchable rationale and decision provenance
- Knowledge graph connects team entities
- MCP capture for agents and tickets
- Slack and email digests
- Unlimited agents and MCP connections
Watch out
- Team Plan costs $39 per user monthly
- Searchable history is one year by default
- Enterprise pricing requires custom terms
- Content is decrypted server-side for insights
Who it suits
Handoff suits engineering teams coordinating AI-assisted work across code, tickets, meetings, and messaging. It is aimed at organizations needing searchable decisions and relationship context.
Verdict
Handoff centralizes engineering decisions and links them to the people and systems involved. Its retention settings, per-human pricing, and enterprise controls should guide teams comparing plans.
Plans and prices
From Handoff's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Team Plan | $39 a month | All features included · 1 year searchable history · 3 years of decisions · agents and MCP connections free · Billed monthly; per user |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | SSO/SAML · custom DPA and security review · BYOK/key management · extended retention and governance · Custom terms and volume pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Handoff's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The homepage presents Handoff as a team memory product for engineering teams that ship with AI.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Capture
- The site says agent sessions, PRs, and tickets can flow into team memory through MCP.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Compliance
- The maker says its cloud providers maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance and that its architecture supports GDPR portability and erasure requirements.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Decision search
- The searchable decision trail records decisions with their rationale, provenance, alternatives, and source.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Encryption
- The security page says content is encrypted with AES-256-GCM using per-organization keys and decrypted server-side to produce digests, synopses, and insights.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Integrations
- The product describes Slack and email delivery for prompts and digests, and MCP connections for agents.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Knowledge graph
- The team knowledge graph connects people, projects, services, and decisions so users can search relationships and see what a change touches.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Notable limits
- The pricing page lists one year of searchable history and three years of decisions for the Team Plan; Enterprise offers extended retention and governance.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Product
- Handoff describes itself as team memory for engineering teams that captures a searchable decision trail from agent sessions, PRs, tickets, and standups.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Retention
- Searchable content is retained for one year by default, configurable from 30 to 730 days, while the decision trail is retained for three years.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Search
- The site says meeting transcripts and handoffs can be searched semantically.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Seat limits
- Agents and MCP connections are described as unlimited and do not count as paid seats; pricing is per human.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Security controls
- The security page lists TLS 1.3, row-level security, role-based access control, MFA for platform administrators’ sensitive operations, and an immutable audit trail for admin actions.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Support
- The pricing page lists priority support for the Team Plan, and the Slack support page gives [email protected] as an email contact.checked 4 Oct 2001
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