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How much did underquoting this project cost you?
A fixed project can look profitable until meetings, QA, revisions and deployment push actual hours past the estimate. Enter the project fee and hours below to turn that gap into evidence for your next quote.
You worked 40.0% more hours than quoted. At your target rate, the delivered time corresponds to a $4,200 project fee.
Use the result without blindly raising every quote
One project is evidence, not a universal price rule. Identify where the extra hours came from: discovery, meetings, administration, QA/testing, deployment, revisions or genuinely new scope. Known recurring work belongs in the next estimate; new scope belongs in change control; uncertainty belongs in a deliberate buffer.
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