I launched a booking tool for day-rate freelancers this morning and got a comment I haven't stopped thinking about:
"The friction is never the calendar; it's locking scope and terms before anyone starts working."
Fair challenge. What I built assumes scope is settled by the time a contract goes out signing is the "we already agreed, now make it official" step, not the negotiation.
For those of you who do client work, is that true for you? Is scope usually settled before you'd want anything signed, or is it still moving right up to the signature? And if it's still moving what specifically? Price, deliverables, timeline, revision count?
