---
title: "Change a launched product with Praxis"
route: "/solutions/by-stage/after-launch"
description: "Keep product changes traceable through the decisions, contracts, and evidence they affect after launch."
template: situation
intent: "Help a product team change a launched product without rediscovering context."
parent: "/solutions/by-stage"
primaryCta: { label: "See how change stays traceable", href: "/docs/guide/handoffs" }
schemaType: Service
hero:
  eyebrow: "Recently launched"
  headline: "Change the product without reopening every old decision."
  sub: "When feedback, bugs, and requests outrun team memory, make each change show what it affects before implementation begins."
  primaryCta: { label: "See how change stays traceable", href: "/docs/guide/handoffs" }
sections:
  - { id: pain, kind: pain, heading: "The week every request starts discovery again" }
  - { id: why-memory-breaks, kind: explanation, heading: "Why chat memory breaks after launch" }
  - { id: praxis-flow, kind: flow, heading: "Trace the impact before changing code" }
  - { id: change-package, kind: cards, heading: "A change package with a history" }
  - { id: proof, kind: proof, heading: "What the next change can inspect" }
  - { id: next-step, kind: cta, heading: "Make one change traceable" }
---

## The week every request starts discovery again

You own the product after launch. A customer request looks small until someone asks which rule, decision, integration contract, and accepted behavior it will disturb.

## Why chat memory breaks after launch

The original answer may exist in a session, a meeting, or one person's head. A new agent can generate a patch, but it cannot prove that the patch keeps the old decision intact.

## Trace the impact before changing code

Treat a bug report, new feature and change to accepted scope according to their different questions. Capture the original request, inspect the requirements, business rules and design it may affect, then propose a bounded update for review. Links help people locate what to revisit; they do not rewrite every dependent artifact automatically.

## A change package with a history

- **Original request** — preserve the ask or defect before interpretation.
- **Affected scope** — name the stories, rules and technical decisions to review.
- **Bounded change** — implement only after the revised acceptance and design are understood.
- **Evidence** — record what was checked, failed or skipped for the selected operation.

## What the next change can inspect

The next owner starts from the versioned change and its evidence, not from another round of archaeological prompting.

## Make one change traceable

Use the handoff guide on the next request that would otherwise reopen a decision.