Is It Out of Scope? — Web design
Is auditing a client's app instead of their website out of scope for a web design project?
Yes. The engagement is scoped to the website property — a native or mobile app is a different product with a different design system.
Clients sometimes treat "digital presence" as one bucket and don't distinguish between the website engagement they signed and a separate app product with its own design system and platform constraints.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. The website and an app are different products, often on entirely different design and interaction patterns — auditing the app is a separate engagement.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement is scoped to the website; other digital products like a mobile or native app are excluded.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
This engagement covers the website specifically — the app is a different product with its own design patterns, so an audit of it would be a separate scope. Happy to put together a proposal if that's useful.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow checks the property named in a request against the contract's defined scope and flags requests naming an app (rather than the website) as outside_scope.