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Freelance project pricing retrospective
A finished project contains pricing evidence you did not have when you quoted it. Compare the hours you planned with the hours you actually spent, then diagnose why the estimate moved before changing your next quote.
Run the connected retrospectiveWhat to record
- Original planned delivery hours and quoted fee.
- Actual delivery hours and direct project costs.
- Effective cash rate and economic margin.
- The hours variance in both hours and percentage terms.
- The cause: scope growth, rework, client delay, estimation error, or genuine efficiency.
Do not blindly price from one project
A single overrun is a signal, not a universal new rate. Separate repeatable estimation errors from unusual project conditions. Comparable projects become more useful when you keep the same review structure and can spot a pattern across several jobs.
Close the pricing loop
PracticalKit connects the original phase estimate with Project Profit and the pricing retrospective. The result is a copy-ready learning record and an evidence-based labor baseline for a genuinely comparable future project, before adding its own complexity, revision, urgency and risk assumptions.