Summary
The Library in Scope Better is where you store and manage all the services you use to build scopes. It acts as your central catalogue for Deliverables, Components, and Third-Party Cost items, allowing you to scope work consistently, accurately, and at scale.
Why it matters
As teams grow, scoping often becomes inconsistent. The same service might be priced differently by different people, or rebuilt from scratch for every proposal. This leads to margin leakage, slower sales cycles, and unnecessary rework.
The Library solves this by giving your team a single source of truth for:
what services you offer
how they are structured
how they are costed and priced
By reusing Library items, you reduce guesswork and ensure every scope is built on approved assumptions.
What lives in the Library
Deliverables
Deliverables represent complete services or outputs you sell to clients — for example, a discovery workshop, monthly retainer, or campaign rollout.
Each Deliverable can contain:
multiple Components
predefined effort and pricing assumptions
optional Third-Party Costs
Storing Deliverables in the Library allows them to be reused across proposals and projects.
Components
Components are the building blocks of Deliverables. They typically represent:
role-based effort (e.g. Strategy, Design, Engineering)
fixed-fee items that contribute to a deliverable
By storing Components in the Library, you ensure effort assumptions are consistent and easy to update over time.
Third-Party Cost Items
Third-Party Cost items represent external costs associated with delivery, such as:
freelancers or contractors
software or tooling
production or media spend
Keeping these in the Library helps teams include realistic pass-through costs without rebuilding them for every scope.
How the Library is typically used
Standardising your services
Your core services live in the Library so every team member scopes work using the same deliverables and components — even as people change roles or teams grow.
Speeding up scoping
Instead of starting from a blank page, you pull pre-built Deliverables from the Library and adapt them to the client context. This reduces time spent scoping and reviewing proposals.
Protecting margin
Because Library items are built using approved rate cards and assumptions, pricing stays aligned with your margin targets — even under sales pressure.
Evolving your offering
As your services change, you update Library items once and those improvements can be reused going forward, rather than fixing the same issue across multiple scopes.
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