Every engagement we run has a standing Friday demo — a live walkthrough of what actually moved that week. No slides, no status doc, just the work in front of the people paying for it.
Demos beat status reports
A status report is easy to write and easy to fudge. A demo isn't. Showing working software every week forces real progress and surfaces problems while they're still cheap to fix — long before a deadline turns them expensive.
Working in the open
Clients get an async progress channel they can check any time, and a demo they can count on every Friday. It sounds simple because it is. But that rhythm is most of what 'accountable' actually means in practice — and it's why nothing on our projects happens in the dark.