Is It Out of Scope? — Web design

Is setting up A/B testing infrastructure out of scope for a web design project?

Yes. A/B testing tooling is technical infrastructure, not a design deliverable — though designing test variants may be a natural add-on.

This usually comes from a client wanting to test different versions of a page once it launches, and asking whoever designed the site to also "set up the testing."

Is it out of scope?

Yes. A/B testing infrastructure — a testing platform, traffic-split logic, tracking integration — is technical setup work, separate from designing the page variants that would be tested.

Clause typically implicated

Clause typically implicated

Exclusions clause→ — A/B testing platform setup is technical infrastructure excluded from a design engagement's scope.

Example contract wording

Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)

I can design the alternate versions to test, but setting up the testing platform and traffic-split logic is technical work — that'd need a developer, or a separate scoped piece with us.

How MarginFlow flags it

MarginFlow flags A/B testing infrastructure requests outside_scope on design contracts, while treating designing test page variants as within reach of a design engagement.

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