Free Agency Economics Tool
Scope Creep & Margin
Leakage Calculator
See exactly how unbilled client requests and hidden sprint overruns diminish your agency's realized hourly rate and project profits.
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Scope Creep & Margin Leakage Calculator
Unbilled "minor client requests" quietly erode your project profits. Calculate your true realized hourly rate and margin loss.
$35,000
$5k$100k$200k
300 hrs
+20% (60 hrs)
0% (Tight)20% (Typical)60% (Severe)
$85/hr
Project Margin Impact
Planned Realized Rate:$117/hr
Actual Realized Rate:$97/hr
Effective Margin Erosion:-17%
Unbilled Billable Revenue Lost
$5,100
Across 60 unbilled hours absorbed by your development team.
How to Stop Scope Creep Before It Eats Your Margin
1. Connect Tasks Directly to Timesheets
When time tracking happens in a disconnected app (like Harvest or Toggl), engineers log time in bulk at the end of the week. Logging time directly on sprint tasks provides real-time budget burn visibility.
2. Surface Real-Time Capacity Heatmaps
Track developer focus factors and daily contracted hours so project managers never assign 12 hours of sprint work to an engineer with only 6 productive hours available.
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