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Turn a quote into a spec engineers can build from

Scope the work commercially, win it, and promote the same document into a technical specification with acceptance criteria, dev notes and hours already attached.

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A commercial proposal is not a spec. So the deal closes, and an engineer inherits a PDF that says what the client is paying for but not how it works, what "done" means, or which edge cases were priced in. The technical detail that existed in someone's head during scoping never made it into a document, or it did, in a separate spec that immediately drifts from the signed quote. Either way the build starts with a discovery phase you did not quote.

How dev agencies use ScopeDeck

Quote with the technical shape in place

Build the Quote from sections and reusable snippets that carry standard hours, default cost and task seeds, so an "API integration" snippet brings its estimate and its build steps every time.

Promote to a spec, add acceptance criteria

When it is won, promote the Quote. Your wording seeds each section; you add the detailed behaviour, acceptance criteria and constraints. Snippets switch to their specification version automatically.

Keep engineering context off the client PDF

Dev Notes, Comments and Open Questions live at section level and never reach the client export, so scopers can leave "confirm rate-limit strategy" against the exact section without it appearing in the proposal.

Hand delivery a combined task list

Task buckets across Dev and Checks combine into one delivery list you export as Markdown for your issue tracker, with the estimated hours attached. Tasks combine rather than deduplicate, so nothing is silently dropped.

Before and after

Before

  • A £48,000 build is signed as a proposal PDF.
  • The engineer finds no acceptance criteria and no dev notes.
  • A week disappears into "discovery", clarifying decisions already made in sales.
  • The separate spec, if there is one, no longer matches the price.

With ScopeDeck

  • The approved Quote becomes a Specification with acceptance criteria per section.
  • Dev notes and estimated hours travel with the Scope.
  • The combined task list exports to the tracker with hours attached.
  • The engineer builds from the same document the client signed.

Questions, answered

Yes. Every section carries Notes, Dev Notes, Comments and Open Questions with one reply level and filtered Markdown summaries. Dev-facing notes stay internal and never appear on the client PDF.

Keep reading

Notes and open questionsSection-level dev notes that stay off the client PDF.Turning a quote into a buildable specHow acceptance criteria and hours carry into delivery.Scope types and platformsPre-shaped sections for the stacks you build on.

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