Freelancers Editing and Proofreading Services

The quote said eight hundred pounds for a website. Four weeks later the client has asked for a different homepage layout, added a booking form, requested "just a small change" to the colours twice, and wants to see it on a tablet. The freelancer has done all of it, is now working for about nine pounds an hour, and cannot invoice for any of it because nothing in the quote said what a change was.

We edit what freelancers write to win and control work — proposals and statements of work, scope and deliverable definitions, revision and change terms, rate cards and estimates, contracts and their plain-language summaries, invoices and payment terms, and the messages that raise a cost with a client mid-project. Our editors work on documents that have to hold when a client is being reasonable.

The definition of a revision and what triggers a new cost is where freelance profitability lives, and its failure is a deliverable listed without a boundary. Scope creep is almost never bad faith; it is an absence of definition that both sides walk into. We work through these so the deliverable is described in countable units — pages, words, designs, rounds — because "a website" is not a quantity and "five pages, one homepage design, two rounds of amendments per page" is; so a revision is defined as a change to something already agreed rather than as any request, since the useful line is between refining what exists and adding what does not; so the number of rounds is stated with what happens after them, given that "unlimited revisions" is the single most expensive phrase in freelancing; so an example of an in-scope and an out-of-scope request is given, as this is the only part clients genuinely remember; so the additional work has a stated rate, because a client who knows a new page costs £120 asks for it deliberately and one who does not asks for it casually; so approval is defined as a specific act with a time limit, so that silence does not stall a project indefinitely; so the payment schedule attaches to milestones rather than to completion; and so the client's own obligations — content, feedback, access — are listed with what happens when they are late. Documents written this way keep a good client and a viable rate.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including proposals, rates and client correspondence. We are editors rather than lawyers or business advisers, and we offer no legal advice and no view on pricing, contracts or any client relationship. What we can do is draw the line before anybody needs it.