Is It Out of Scope? — Web development

Is creating video content for social ads out of scope for a web development project?

Yes. Video production has no overlap with building or maintaining a website and isn't something a development engagement covers under any framing.

This is one of the cleaner discipline mismatches — video production for paid ads has essentially nothing in common with writing or maintaining code, and it landing with a dev team is almost always about availability rather than any real connection to the work.

Is it out of scope?

Yes, cleanly. Video production is a distinct creative discipline with no development component, outside the engagement regardless of framing.

Clause typically implicated

Clause typically implicated

Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — video production is excluded outright as an entirely different discipline.

Example contract wording

Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)

Video production isn't something we do under this engagement — that's outside development entirely. Happy to point you toward a video editor or agency that specializes in ad creative.

How MarginFlow flags it

MarginFlow flags this outside_scope on development contracts with high confidence and a short explanation, given how clear the discipline mismatch is.

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