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Quantify how much untracked scope changes are costing your agency per project — and what it adds up to over a year.

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Your Project Numbers

$8,000
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12 projects
1 projects60 projects
8 hrs
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$150
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The Real Cost of Scope Creep

Significant: Scope creep is costing you 12.0% of annual revenue

You're absorbing $12K/year in free work (77 hours).

96 hrs
Total creep hours/year
8 hrs × 12 projects
$14K
Total creep value/year
96 hrs × $150/hr
$3K
Currently charging
20% of extra work billed
$12K
Absorbing for free
77 hrs of uncompensated work

If you tracked 80% of scope changes

+$0/yr

That's revenue you're currently giving away for free.

Going from 20% → 80% tracking doesn't mean nickel-and-diming clients. It means having clear change requests, documented agreements, and honest conversations before work starts.

3 Ways to Reduce Scope Creep Starting Today

1

Write a detailed Statement of Work before every project starts — if it's not in the SOW, it's a change order.

2

Set a threshold (e.g. 1 hour) above which any extra request requires a formal change request with a quote.

3

Use proposal software with a clear scope section that clients acknowledge in writing — no "but I thought that was included" surprises.

Pitchsite proposals include scope protection built in.

Agencies using Pitchsite's signed interactive proposals report fewer "but I thought that was included" conversations — because the scope is right there on the page clients signed.

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