Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is creating a pitch deck template out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. A presentation template is a design deliverable in a completely different format than a website build, and outside a development engagement's scope regardless of who's asked.
Similar to other design-asset requests that land on a development-only engagement, a pitch deck template request usually isn't really about the dev team's skills — it's about them being the available point of contact, even though building slide layouts has nothing to do with building a website.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. A presentation template is a design deliverable in a different format entirely, with no overlap with development work, and it's outside scope regardless of how the request is framed.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — presentation design is excluded as an entirely different deliverable and discipline.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
A pitch deck template is a design deliverable outside our development scope — not something we produce under this engagement. I can point you toward a designer, and if the deck ever needs anything technical (like an embedded interactive element), that piece could fall under development.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags presentation-design requests outside_scope on development contracts with high confidence, since there's no plausible reading where slide design maps to development deliverables — a straightforward classification that gives the account manager an easy redirect.