A paid scoping week, if the shape is unclear
Rather than guess at a fixed price, we spend a week finding out what the work actually is. You keep the document either way, including if you take it to somebody else.
A fixed scope, and a document that says what is not in it
A project has a start, an end and an agreed price. What decides whether it stays that way is not the plan — it is how carefully the edges were drawn before anyone started.
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- Scope
- Fixed, in writing
- Typical length
- 3–10 weeks
- Billing
- Milestones
- Changes
- Priced separately, agreed before they start
Who this is for
- You know what you want built and you want a number before you commit.
- You have been burned by a project that grew, and you want the edges written down.
- You need to take a cost to a board or an owner and have it hold.
How it works
A statement of work
What is delivered, when, for how much — and a section of the same weight saying what is not included. That section is the one worth reading twice.
Milestones you can see
Work lands in pieces you can look at, not in one delivery at the end. If something is drifting, you find out in week two rather than week nine.
Changes priced, not absorbed
New requests are welcome and they are quoted. Quietly absorbing them is how a project ends late and someone feels cheated.
Out of scope
What a fixed scope excludes
Every statement of work we write names its exclusions explicitly, and they are specific to the job. Typically: content writing, image licensing, third-party subscriptions and licences, migration of data we have not seen, training beyond the agreed sessions, and anything a new stakeholder asks for after sign-off. None of these are refusals — they are separate, and priced separately.
Your side
What we need from you
One person who can decide, available for a short call each week. Content, credentials and access by the dates in the schedule. Feedback consolidated into a single reply rather than arriving from four people over ten days. Approvals inside five working days.
These are in the document with dates against them, because most overrun is not slow delivery — it is work done twice while waiting.
Where we stop
Where this stops being the right shape
If you cannot describe the outcome yet, a fixed price is a guess dressed up as a commitment, and one of us will be wrong. Start with the scoping week, or with a retainer, and fix the price when there is something real to fix it to.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what is slowing you down. We come back within one business day with an honest read on whether we are the right fit, and which of these shapes it should be.