ScopeGuard is Now in Private Beta

We're open — quietly.

Starting today, ScopeGuard is in private beta. We're onboarding agencies one at a time, helping each team get set up before moving to the next. No flood of sign-ups, no broken first experiences. Just a small number of real agencies using the product and telling us what's wrong with it.

If you're on the waitlist, we'll be reaching out personally over the next few weeks.

Where this came from

I've run a creative agency. I know exactly what it feels like to open an email from a client on a Friday afternoon and feel that specific kind of dread — the "this is going to cost us 20 hours and we're probably not going to charge for it" dread.

Scope creep isn't a new problem. Every agency owner knows it. Most have tried to solve it with tighter SOWs, better client onboarding, stronger contract language. And those things help — but they don't solve the underlying issue, which is that the moment a client emails you asking for something extra, you're already in a reactive position.

By the time you've read the email, thought through the implications, flagged it to your team, and figured out what to say back — time has passed. The client is waiting. The pressure to just absorb it and move on is real.

I wanted to flip that. What if you knew a request was out of scope before you even fully processed what was being asked? What if you walked into every client conversation with the numbers already done?

That's the product I wanted to exist. So we built it.

What ScopeGuard actually does

At its core, ScopeGuard watches your client email threads and compares what clients are asking for against what you agreed to in your Statement of Work.

When something falls outside scope, you get an alert — not just "this seems out of scope," but a full breakdown: what was asked, why it's outside the SOW, an estimated number of hours, and a dollar figure based on your actual rate sheet.

From there, one click generates a professional change order you can send to the client directly.

The goal isn't to turn every conversation into a negotiation. It's to make sure you have the information you need to make that call — and that you're never working for free by accident.

What's in the beta

Here's what's live right now:

Gmail monitoring — connect your Gmail account and add specific client addresses per project. ScopeGuard checks for new emails every 15 minutes.
AI scope analysis — every flagged email is analyzed against your uploaded SOW, project description, and rate sheet.
Risk levels — alerts are rated low, medium, high, or critical so you can triage at a glance.
Estimated cost — calculated against your company or project-specific rate sheet, not generic estimates.
Change order generation — approve an alert and get a ready-to-send change order with line items and totals.
Project dashboard — see budget, protected revenue, scope changes, and AI risk score per project.
Team access — invite teammates to your workspace.

What's coming

We're still early. A few things we're actively working on:

Outlook integration — for teams whose clients communicate through Outlook
Slack monitoring — for teams whose clients communicate through shared Slack channels
Change order sending — email the change order directly from ScopeGuard without leaving the app

A note on pricing

Beta users get founding member pricing — meaning whatever rate we lock in during beta is yours to keep, even as the product grows. We're not publishing prices yet because we're still figuring out what's fair based on how agencies actually use the product.

If you're on the waitlist and haven't heard from us yet, hang tight. We'll be in touch.

And if you have questions in the meantime, just email jordan@scopeguard.ai — I read everything.

— Jordan