Is It Out of Scope? — Web design
Is producing a second round of brand guidelines out of scope for a web design project?
Usually yes. A brand guidelines document is typically a defined deliverable with a set number of revision rounds — a second, substantially different version after approval is a new deliverable, not a revision.
Brand guidelines — the document covering logo usage, color, typography, and voice — was delivered, reviewed, and approved as part of the project. Later, sometimes after new stakeholders join or the brand direction shifts internally, the client asks for what amounts to a second version: not a correction to the approved document, but a substantially different one.
Is it out of scope?
Usually yes. Small corrections or clarifications to the approved guidelines are normal within the included revision rounds. A request for a genuinely different document — different structure, expanded scope, or a shifted brand direction — is a second deliverable, priced the way the first one was, not a free do-over.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Revision limit clause→ — Covers revision rounds on the deliverable that was scoped and priced — a substantially different second version is a new deliverable outside that allowance.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
The brand guidelines were delivered and approved as scoped, and we've used the included revision rounds. A substantially revised second version would be a new deliverable — I can scope and quote that separately, similar to how the first version was priced. Want me to put together an estimate?
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow distinguishes between a request to correct or clarify the approved document (inside scope, within the revision allowance) and a request that describes a meaningfully different document — new sections, a different direction — which it flags outside_scope with an explanation grounded in the revision-limit terms and a suggested charge comparable to the original deliverable's rate.