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Convert activities to deliverables
Outputs are countable.
Made for Consultants
Scope an Agency Statement of Work So Scope Creep Stays Billable
Also useful for: Entrepreneurs, Founders, Franchise Owners, Freelancers, Restaurant Owners, Small Business Owners, people in Entrepreneurship
35 min
Intermediate
Entrepreneurship
Consultant
Career outcome:
Win Clients
Turn a handshake deal into a scope clients can sign without hidden unlimited revisions.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Agencies lose margin when deliverables are activities ("social media") instead of outputs with revision limits and out-of-scope rules.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Set assumptions and client duties
Projects fail in the inbox.
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Define revisions and change orders
Revisions need a number.
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Write milestones and SOW skeleton
Cash flow follows milestones.
Make Your Play
Scope an Agency Statement of Work So Scope Creep Stays Billable
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
What success looks like and the hard date if any.
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What was promised in sales calls, be honest.
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Fee, expenses, who works it, hours available.
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Slow feedback, multiple approvers, prior scope fights.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
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Convert activities to deliverables
Outputs are countable.
02
Set assumptions and client duties
Projects fail in the inbox.
03
Define revisions and change orders
Revisions need a number.
04
Write milestones and SOW skeleton
Cash flow follows milestones.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
Client wants a proposal this week, or the last project ended with "we thought that was included."
You'll need
- Client outcome and deadline
- Deliverables discussed
- Budget and team
- Client risks
You'll get
- A an SOW with deliverables, assumptions, change-order triggers, and payment milestones you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A an SOW with deliverables, assumptions, change-order triggers, and payment milestones you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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