Guides

Guides for scoping, pricing and winning work

Practical guides on writing a scope of work, pricing a website and writing a proposal that gets signed, plus scope creep, quote ranges and change control.

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Where to start

If you only read three, read the pillars. Each one is a full walk-through, and each links out to the shorter guides that go deeper on one decision.

defines what you're building, what you're not, and how change is handled.

stand behind, and present it so it holds.

sections that win the work and the mistakes that get proposals ghosted.


Scope & SOW

Define the work precisely, then protect that definition. These guides cover what goes in a scope, what to leave out, and how to keep both sides honest once the project starts.

Pricing

Reach a defensible number and present it well. These guides cover pricing models, buffers, ranges and the art of not over-itemising.

Proposals

Turn the scope and the price into a document a client says yes to. These guides cover structure, follow-up and reusing what you've written before.

Why we write these

We build ScopeDeck, the scoping and delivery-handoff platform for agencies and freelancers. That means we spend our days thinking about the exact problems these guides cover: how a quote becomes a spec, how a spec becomes a build plan, and how to stop detail leaking out at every hand-off. The guides are useful on their own. If they make you want a tool that keeps all of it on one document, that's what we make.

Put a guide into practice

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