Show HN: ScopeLock – AI that stops scope creep before it happens
ScopeLock flagged it before I'd even replied — turned out to be 6 extra hours. Got paid for all of it, no back-and-forth."MRMarcus R.Freelance Web Developer<style>.reveal-stagger-item_item__YMEaC { opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; filter: none !important; }</style>"Honestly I was skeptical at first. ScopeLock works perfectly as an internal tool.
- ▪ScopeLock flagged it before I'd even replied — turned out to be 6 extra hours.
- ▪Got paid for all of it, no back-and-forth."MRMarcus R.Freelance Web Developer<style>.reveal-stagger-item_item__YMEaC { opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; filter: none !important; }</style>"Honestly I was skeptical at first.
- ▪ScopeLock works perfectly as an internal tool.
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| Original publisher | ScopeLock |
| Canonical URL | https://www.scopelock.app |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:03:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-22T15:13:50.990Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22T15:13:50.990Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _TB7mkuRZcSt · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Stop scope creep before it eats your margins.The AI-powered SOW generator that interrogates your clients, defines strict boundaries, and turns "just one more thing" into paid change orders.Lock Your Scope<style>.hero-demo_bubble__KR4Vr, .hero-demo_alert__FSxK3, .hero-demo_changeOrder__sIfCp { opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; }</style>Client messageCan we also add real-time notifications? Just one more thing!<style>.reveal_reveal__qi6W_ { opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; filter: none !important; }</style>The Hall of ShameDon't let these famous last words destroy your profit margins.<style>.reveal-stagger-item_item__YMEaC { opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; filter: none !important; }</style>"We just need one small tweak to the checkout…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at ScopeLock.
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