Is It Out of Scope? — Web design
Is setting up CI/CD for the client's repo out of scope for a web design project?
Yes. CI/CD pipeline setup is a development-infrastructure task with no design-deliverable overlap.
This request almost never originates with a design stakeholder — it comes from an engineer on the client's side who notices deploys are manual and asks if it can be automated while "someone's already in there."
Is it out of scope?
Yes. A CI/CD pipeline is deployment tooling, not visual or layout work — it has no place in a design deliverable list regardless of who asks.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — CI/CD and deployment tooling is technical infrastructure work excluded from a design engagement's scope.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Setting up CI/CD is deployment tooling, outside what this design engagement covers — that's a developer task, whether on your team or a separate scope with us.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags CI/CD setup requests outside_scope on design contracts, since deployment tooling has no overlap with the design deliverables actually quoted.