For freelancers
Two “quick” extras a month is a week of unpaid work a year. Paste what you agreed to, paste the message that just arrived, and find out where the request actually stands — with a reply you can send as it is.
Three rounds are covered. All three are used.
Happy to take another look — our agreement covers three rounds and we wrapped the third last week, so I’d quote this fourth one separately.
Your hourly rate
Extra hours a client pulls out of you per project
Projects per month
23 unpaid work days this year
You are handing over roughly
$7.2k
~5 hrs × 3 proj/mo × 12 × $40/hr
Start billing for themHow it works
The contract, the SOW, the proposal they accepted, or the thread where you settled the details.
The one that starts with “small thing” and ends with three days of work.
In scope, out of scope, or genuinely unclear — with the exact line it rests on, and wording you can send.
What you get
Real verdicts, so you know what you’re getting before you paste anything.
The agreement lists the Contact page among the five agreed designs, and swapping the form fields is part of designing it. This is covered work.
“Responsive designs for five (5) pages: Home, Shop, Product Detail, About, and Contact.”
Yes, that’s covered — the Contact page is one of the five in our agreement, and the field changes are part of designing it. I’ll fold it into the current round and you’ll see it in the next hand-off.
The agreement covers the five page designs but says nothing about a mobile app screen. It is neither included nor excluded — the terms are silent, which is a different answer from “no”.
Good question, and honestly our agreement doesn’t say either way — it lists five web pages and stops there. Before I start, can we agree whether the app screen sits inside this phase or becomes its own small piece of work?
The agreement covers three rounds of revisions on the agreed page set, and the client has already used all three. A fourth round is new work, even though revisions themselves are covered.
“Includes up to three (3) rounds of revisions across the five agreed page designs. Additional rounds are quoted separately.”
Happy to take another look at the pricing page. Our agreement covers three rounds of revisions and we wrapped the third last week, so this would be a fourth — I can quote it as a small add-on, or roll it into the next phase if you’d rather keep everything together.
What sets Signalens apart
When you upload a contract PDF, Signalens scores it against 10 industry standards — surfacing weak clauses, missing protections, and exact language to add before anything goes wrong.
Most tools only accept copy-paste. Signalens understands context — paste the client’s exact message or simply describe what they’re asking. Both get the same precision verdict.
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The hidden cost
“You finish the logo. The client says: ‘Can you also do the brand guidelines?’ You say yes — it’s just 2 more hours. Then comes the social kit. Then the pitch deck. You’ve worked 14 extra hours and invoiced for zero.”
This is scope creep. It happens to every designer, developer, writer, and consultant — and most never bill for it. Not because they don’t want to. Because they don’t have the words.
71%
of freelancers deal with scope creep on most projects
AND CO Freelancer Report, 2019 ?
63%
never invoice for the out-of-scope work they do
Freelancing in America, Upwork × Freelancers Union, 2019 ?
$9,000+
average annual loss from unbilled out-of-scope work
est. based on BLS median rate × avg. extra hours ?
Signalens spots it before you say yes — and gives you the exact words to respond.
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