ScopeGuard

ScopeGuard is the essential, mobile-first app designed to protect freelancers from the silent profit killer: scope creep. Built for independent contractors, consultants, and solo entrepreneurs, it directly addresses the industry-wide problem of unbilled work from client requests that drift outside the original agreement. On average, freelancers lose over $5,000 annually to this very issue. ScopeGuard acts as your digital contract guardian, ensuring you get paid for every single hour you work. The core process is seamless: import your contract or Statement of Work into your secure dashboard. Then, using the convenient Chrome Extension, you can instantly analyze any client request from within your workflow—be it in Gmail, Slack, Asana, or any web tool—with a simple right-click. The AI provides an immediate verdict on whether a request is in-scope, out-of-scope, or borderline. From there, the app-centric platform helps you log the extra work, track time and rates, send secure approval requests to clients, and generate invoices, all from a unified, real-time dashboard. It’s more than a tracker; it’s an active revenue protection system that integrates directly into your existing toolkit to stop revenue leakage before it happens.

AI-Powered Scope Analysis

Instantly analyze any text from your workflow using our AI engine. Simply paste a client's request alongside your project scope, or use the Chrome Extension to right-click on text in emails or project tools. Receive an immediate, accurate verdict—in-scope, out-of-scope, or borderline—with 95% accuracy, helping you make confident, data-backed decisions in real-time without manual contract review.

Seamless Chrome Extension

Integrate ScopeGuard directly into your daily workflow with our powerful browser extension. Capture scope items or verify client requests from any webpage, including Gmail, Slack, and Asana, with a simple right-click. This eliminates app-switching and ensures you can protect your revenue the moment a new request comes in, keeping your process fluid and efficient.

Built-In Client Approval Portal

Streamline the process of getting paid for extra work. With one click from your dashboard, send clients a secure, professional approval link for any out-of-scope items. Clients can review the details and formally approve the additional work and cost with their own click, creating a clear audit trail and eliminating awkward payment conversations.

Unified Real-Time Dashboard

Gain complete visibility over all your projects from a single, mobile-optimized command center. Track unbilled work, monitor pending client approvals, see logged scope changes, and generate invoices—all in one place. This dashboard provides the real-time insights you need to understand your project health and protect every dollar of your revenue.

Web & Graphic Designers

Designers frequently face requests for "just one more revision" or additional pages not included in the initial mockup agreement. ScopeGuard allows them to instantly verify if a new design iteration or functionality request is out-of-scope, log it immediately, and send a professional approval to the client, ensuring all creative work is properly compensated.

Marketing Consultants & Copywriters

When a client asks for an extra blog post, social media asset, or changes to campaign strategy mid-project, it can blur the lines of the original SOW. Consultants use ScopeGuard to analyze these requests against the contracted deliverables, providing clear justification for additional billing and maintaining project profitability.

Software Developers & Freelance Programmers

Development projects are highly susceptible to feature creep. A request for a "small tweak" or new functionality can represent hours of unbilled work. Developers use the Chrome Extension to check requests in project management tools like Jira or Slack, instantly identifying scope drift and documenting it for billing before the work begins.

Independent Consultants & Coaches

Consultants engaged for strategy or advisory work often receive follow-up questions and requests for additional analysis outside of scheduled calls. ScopeGuard helps them capture these "off-the-clock" consultations as billable items, turning informal advice into formal, approved project extensions with tracked time and clear invoices.

How does the AI scope checking work?

Our AI is trained to understand project deliverables and contractual language. When you provide your project scope and a client request, it analyzes the text to identify key tasks, deliverables, and boundaries. It then compares the request against the defined scope to determine alignment, providing a verdict (In-Scope, Out-of-Scope, Borderline) along with its reasoning, all with 95% accuracy.

How does the Chrome extension work?

After installing the free Chrome Extension, you can highlight any text on a webpage—like an email in Gmail or a message in Slack—and right-click. Select the ScopeGuard option to instantly send that text for AI analysis against your imported project contracts. It also allows you to quickly import new scope documents directly from the web, making setup and verification incredibly fast.

How does client approval work?

From your ScopeGuard dashboard, you can create an approval request for any logged out-of-scope item. The system generates a unique, secure link that you send to your client. The client views a clear summary of the requested extra work, the associated cost, and can approve it with a single click. This approval is then recorded in your dashboard for invoicing.

Is my contract data secure?

Yes. We use enterprise-grade security protocols. Your sensitive contract and project data is encrypted and never leaves our secure servers. We do not use your contract information to train our AI models. Your data privacy and the confidentiality of your client agreements are our top priority.

ScopeGuard offers simple, transparent pricing with a 14-day free trial that requires no credit card. The Solo plan is priced at $29 per month and is perfect for freelancers and independent contractors. It includes unlimited projects, AI-powered scope analysis, the client approval portal, PDF and screenshot import, the Chrome extension, automatic invoice generation, a real-time dashboard, and priority support. With the average scope change valued at over $300, the tool is designed to provide a 10x+ ROI, meaning you become profitable for the year after recovering just one out-of-scope request.