Scope creep, what to do when AI output was wrong, the invoice, the Australian tax threshold, and building toward recurring.
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Every freelance dispute starts the same way: two people did the same job in their heads and ended up with different results.
Scope is not a formality. It is the foundation of every professional relationship that doesn't end in unpaid work, awkward emails, or one-star reviews.
What scope includes:
The revision clause:
One round of revisions means: they provide feedback, you implement it once. It does not mean unlimited back-and-forth, a wholesale brief change, or additions to the scope.
When a client asks for something outside the original brief:
"Happy to do that — it's outside the original scope, so it would be an additional $[X]. Want me to add it?"
No apology. No free work. A clear offer.
Brief changes mid-job:
The most common scope creep: the brief changes after you've started. Client changes the target audience, the angle, or the product. If the brief changed, the job changed.
"I can work with the new brief — given the change in direction, I'll need to restart the chain. That's [X] additional hours, so an extra $[Y]. Do you want to proceed on that basis?"
Document every brief change in writing before acting on it.
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