In development · 5 founding agencies
Price your work on value, not hours
We're building Scopeful so agencies can move beyond hourly billing: measure what a project will cost and what it's worth to the client, then quote on value, not guesswork. It's early, and we're shaping it with agencies now.
Value to the client
The idea: cost and value, both measured in euros. The gap is a margin you can quote with confidence.
The agency squeeze
Scoping a deal eats four weeks of unbillable senior time
Scoping means working out what to build, what it costs, and how long it takes. It ties up your most senior people for weeks before a contract is signed, mostly unbilled. Across 20+ agency interviews, the pattern repeated: a healthy margin slipping toward break-even.
“Nobody can price what nobody can predict.”
How it works
We measure instead of predicting
Estimates fail because nobody can reliably predict what custom software costs. Not 20-year veterans, not AI. So our bet is to stop estimating and start measuring, with the same coding agents we train hundreds of developers on.
Scopeful will put AI coding agents on parts of the actual project and record the real time and cost, instead of guessing from memory and hoping the number holds.
It will work out what the project is worth to your client, in euros, and check it against public business data, so value stops being a gut feel and becomes a number.
The workflow
From project brief to verified quote
What we're building toward.
Project brief
An RFP or a rough description. Whatever the client sends.
Measure cost + value
Agents attempt the real work; we quantify the value. One short Q&A round with the client fills the gaps.
Verified quote
A price tied to outcomes, backed by measured cost and value, not a senior's best guess.
4 weeks of scoping → under an hour
Who it's for
Built for Nordic-Baltic software agencies
Scopeful is built for software agencies of 10 to 50 people across the Nordic-Baltic region. The teams scoping custom builds every week, feeling the margin squeeze hardest, and ready to be paid for the value they deliver rather than the hours they log.
Founding agencies
Build it with us, use it before anyone else
Scopeful learns from real projects. With a small group of founding agencies we're assembling something no agency has alone: a dataset of real agentic-coding work, the requirements, the estimate, the proposal, and what it actually cost. That ground truth is what lets Scopeful measure instead of guess. You share your own project and tender data under NDA, never with competitors. In return:
Bring us a live deal. Our team produces an alternative quote you can compare against your own, and sharpen it.
See where your estimates and margins land against anonymized peers, something no one in the industry can see today.
Founding agencies shape what gets built, around how you actually scope and quote.
Use Scopeful before anyone else, the moment it's ready.
While we're in applied research, our team does this by hand, on real deals
Where we are
Concept stage, real momentum
Scopeful is at the concept stage: the problem is proven, the product is in active development. Five agencies have signed letters of intent to build and test it with us, and the approach is grounded in 20+ interviews with agency leaders.
We already train developers at agencies like these
Beyond time-based pricing
We're building this with agencies, not for them. If you scope custom builds and want a say in how outcome-based pricing should work, we'd welcome a conversation. No pressure either way, and founding agencies get first access when it's ready.
Talk to Kaido