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name: the-scope-creep-conversation
description: "For when a fixed-price job has quietly become a bigger job. Use when the user wants help with The Scope Creep Conversation. Related topics: Freelance, Communication, Business."
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# The Scope Creep Conversation

For when a fixed-price job has quietly become a bigger job.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **What was agreed** (longer free text)
- **What they have asked for since** (longer free text)
- **Relationship so far** (choose one: great, fine, a bit tense, actively difficult)
- **Do I want to keep working with them?** (choose one: Yes, No)

## Prompt template

A client keeps adding to a fixed-price job and I need to have the conversation without blowing up the relationship.

What was agreed: {{What was agreed}}
What they have asked for since: {{What they have asked for since}}
Relationship so far: {{Relationship so far}}
Do I want to keep working with them? {{Do I want to keep working with them?}}

Give me, in this order:

1. One line on how far past the original scope we actually are.
2. The two or three additions small enough to just absorb, if there are any.
3. A change order for the rest, with a price and a revised delivery date.
4. What I say out loud, written the way a person talks and not like a legal notice.
5. The reply I am most likely to get back, and my answer to it.

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Source: [The Scope Creep Conversation on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/KJKlo2ym5iP4ftBtamoR/the-scope-creep-conversation)