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Use case scope creep & change orders

"While you're at it…" — now with a paper trail.

Scope creep never arrives as one big ask. It arrives as six small ones, each too minor for a formal change order, until you've done a project's worth of unbilled work with nothing in writing. The fix isn't more process — it's making the sign-off cheaper than the favor.

The 30-second change order

For you

Client asks for "one more landing page variant" on a call. Before you hang up: 30 seconds to send a sign-off — "Scope addition: LP variant C, +6 hours, $900." It's not bureaucracy; it's a link.

For them

One tap on their phone. No form, no PDF to sign, no account. Because it's this light, clients actually do it — which is the entire difference between a change-order process that exists on paper and one that exists in practice.

At billing time

The invoice carries six line items the retainer didn't cover. Instead of the awkward call, you attach the export: six scope additions, each approved by name and date. The conversation moves from "did we agree to this?" to "when is payment due?" — which is the only conversation you wanted. Pricing that one recovered invoice covers →

Make the sign-off cheaper than the favor.

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