ScopeGuard

Stop scope creep — bill every "one small thing".

Productivity

Freelance

SaaS

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I spent years taking fixed-price freelance work, and the pattern never changed. A $2,000 project. Then "can you also add a login page?" in week two. Then another. Then another. None of them felt big enough to stop and renegotiate, so I absorbed them — and finished having worked 40 hours I never billed.

ScopeGuard is deliberately not an AI scope checker. No model reads your contract and guesses what is in scope, because when the invoice goes out your client argues with you, not with a model. So you write the baseline yourself, in your own words, in about five lines. Every time a client asks for something outside it, you log it as an add-on in roughly 30 seconds. The Creep Meter keeps a running total, so at any moment you can see you are +9.5 hours and +$640 past what was agreed. When you are ready, you pick the add-ons and it generates a PDF invoice.

The part I care most about: your client can see the same baseline-vs-added view through a read-only link. No account, no login, revoke it anytime. That means the extra work gets agreed before the invoice arrives, instead of argued about after.

It is built for solo freelancers and small studios doing flat-rate work — developers, designers, writers, consultants. If you bill hourly and already track time, you probably do not need this.

Two things it does not do, so you know what you are getting: there are no integrations yet (no Toggl, Jira, or Notion import — logging is manual on purpose, since the point is that you and your client agreed on the wording), and there is no mobile app. It also does not process payments; it generates the invoice and you collect however you already do.

One question I would really like answered: what would make you log an add-on the moment a client asks, instead of telling yourself you will remember it later? That habit is the whole thing.