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- Scope creep (freelance/agency) Tracker
This tracker covers a sensitive category. Unhide is pattern-insight for self-improvement — never diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice. You'll be asked to confirm you understand this before your first entry.
How many hours of scope creep are you absorbing every month — and which clients are eating your margin?
Log every "quick favour", every "small tweak", every "while you're at it". After 30 days, our AI shows you the creep heatmap by client and by type, the unbilled hours, and the silent additions that never made it to an invoice.
"Across 14 scope-creep events in the past 30 days, you absorbed 11 hours silently and billed for 2. Quick favours dominate — 5 of 14 events — and you absorbed e…
6 fields. Done in 60 seconds when a creep event happens.
Fast enough to fit into any routine, specific enough to generate real patterns after 30 days.
Log, build, learn.
Log in 60 seconds when a creep event happens
One entry. A few taps. The fields are designed so you never have to think about what to fill in.
Build your dataset
Miss a day? Optional email nudge. AI needs 30 entries to find patterns worth reading.
First insight free
AI analysis at 30 entries. Your factors, your dates, your correlations — not a generic article.
7 things Scope creep (freelance/agency) reveals about you.
- Your creep-frequency trajectory across the period — is the rate increasing, stable, or improving
- Which client appears most often in your creep log — and whether the pattern is recurring
- Your creep-type heatmap (quick favour, small tweak, while-you're-at-it, version revision, deadline brought forward, new stakeholder, rush request, missing-spec) with the actual counts
- How creep gets introduced — in passing, formal, sneaked in, slack, urgent — and which method is dominating
- The hours-absorbed-vs-billed gap and your refusal rate
- Which creep types you consistently bill for and which ones you consistently absorb silently
- The energy cost differential between charging extra, refusing, and absorbing silently
Here's what arrives at 30 days.
Illustrative — your analysis uses your own data.
Your scope creep (freelance/agency) patterns show a clear weekly cycle. AI finds the specific factors affecting your scores — after 30 days, your data tells the story.
“"Across 14 scope-creep events in the past 30 days, you absorbed 11 hours silently and billed for 2. Quick favours domina…”
People watching their own patterns.
Freelancers, consultants, and agency owners who finish the month suspecting they're losing margin somewhere but can't see exactly where. The designer who said yes to "just one more revision round" four times this month. The developer who fixed the bug that wasn't in the spec because it would have been awkward not to. The strategist who absorbed a 90-minute "while you're here" call inside an already-priced project. The agency PM watching a fixed-fee project quietly slip from 80% profitable to 30% profitable across a quarter. This isn't a project-management coaching tracker. It's a mirror. You log the events; the pattern shows up on its own. Where the creep is coming from, how it's being introduced, which clients are the source, and what the hours add up to.
Common questions
Is the Scope creep (freelance/agency) tracker medical or diagnostic?
No. Unhide is pattern-insight for self-improvement — not diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice. The AI is explicitly prompted to avoid clinician language. If something concerns you, please talk to your GP.
Does the AI see my entries?
Only when an analysis runs — triggered in-app or delivered to your email. Either way, only your logged data and history is sent, never your personal information. Your data is never used to train any AI model. Full detail in the privacy policy.
What if I miss a day or two?
No streak guilt. Your insights stay accurate; the chart just has fewer dots. The AI explicitly works around gaps in your data instead of pretending they're zeros.
When is my first AI insight free?
At 30 days of entries, and again at 180 days, on every free tracker. Free plan includes 2 trackers — upgrade for monthly or weekly AI runs.
Can I delete everything?
Yes, anytime, no questions asked. Delete a single entry, a whole tracker, or the entire account. Deletion cascades through analyses and exports.
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