A five-page website is not enough to price: what would you clarify first?
I’m Peter, founder of ScopeClarify. Here’s a fictional enquiry to make the scoping problem concrete:
“We need a five-page website with a booking form. Can you send a fixed quote? We’d like it next month.”
Before pricing, these are the gaps I would make explicit:
• Content: who supplies the final copy and images, and when?
• Booking: a simple enquiry form, or live availability, payments and an existing system integration?
• Approval: who signs off, and how many revision rounds are included?
• Launch: what needs migrating, and who owns hosting and handover?
A practical clarification reply could be:
“Thanks for the outline. Before I put a fixed price against it, could you confirm who supplies the content, what the booking flow must do, and who approves the work? I can then set out the deliverables, exclusions and price.”
That is the step ScopeClarify supports: select a client email and service template, identify missing information, then review and edit the clarification before approving the send. It requires a connected inbox. The free plan includes 3 AI intakes per month.
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Which missing detail most often changes your estimate, and what do you currently use to track the client’s answer? Please use a general or fictional example rather than sharing confidential client messages.
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