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57%
57% -- share of agencies losing 1000 to 5000 usd per month to unbilled out of scope work for agencies (2025)
57% of agencies lose between $1,000 and $5,000 per month to unbilled out-of-scope work.
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57%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
North America
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ignition
Primary
Tier B
https://momentumnexus.com/blog/scope-creep-pricing-failure-services/ ↗
Source Article
Scope Creep Is a Pricing Failure, Not a Client Failure - Momentum Nexus Blog
Scope Creep Is a Pricing Failure, Not a Client Failure
Every agency I talk to has the same story. A client keeps adding things. Small requests at first. Then slightly bigger ones. By month three, the team is running three times the work promised in the proposal, invoicing for one, and calling it “go…
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Ignition
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Cited from Ignition's 2025 Agency and Cash Flow Report
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IndustryAgency
RegionNorth America
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agencies: 57% share of agencies losing 1000 to 5000 usd per month to unbilled out of scope work. Source: Ignition (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/agencies-lose-1k-5k-month-unbilled-scope-2025
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