The answers your
buying committee expects.

1. 01What does it really cost? (TCO)

   Scope is contracted on quote: a structured paid pilot with written success criteria, then an annual license calibrated to your organisation (teams covered, scoping volumes, contractual requirements). For comparison, having a senior consultant produce a scoping note costs between €5,000 and €15,000 in internal cost (2 to 3 weeks × €700–€900 day rate + reviews): the quote is sized so the license pays for itself within the first proposals produced.

   No hidden cost: unlimited exports, AI models included, French support, EU hosting. No additional billing per proposal or per export. Viewers (colleagues who consult or comment) are free and unlimited.

2. 02Can't we just use ChatGPT?

   ChatGPT alone cannot: apply your day-rate matrix per profile, generate a RACI consistent with French consultancy conventions, produce a work-package estimate with calibrated confidence intervals, export a signable proposal as DOCX or PDF in your visual identity, or maintain a defensible audit log.

   More importantly, using ChatGPT Free or Plus to handle client data creates a documented GDPR risk: transfer outside the EU, prompt retention for training (unless an explicit opt-out), no enforceable DPA. The CNIL (French data protection authority) has published several recommendations along these lines in its practical sheets on generative AI.

3. 03Build vs buy? Why not develop it in-house?

   Founder-led estimate based on 6 months of solo build: building a Scope equivalent in-house takes on the order of 6 months of development by a 2-engineer full-time team, i.e. roughly €50,000 in direct cost, before maintenance. On top of that come AI expertise (prompt engineering, eval, multi-model orchestration), compliance (DPA, audit logs, GDPR), and the product iterations you will discover along the way.

   Pragmatic recommendation: start with Scope for 6 months to measure the actual value. If usage is heavy and strategic, you will have the figures in hand to justify an in-house build. In the vast majority of cases, the subscription stays 5 to 10 times cheaper than a maintained build — including the maintenance cost most teams forget about in year one.

4. 04How is client data secured?

   Application hosting in the European Union — Supabase for Postgres, authentication and object storage (eu-west-1, Dublin); Railway for Next.js execution on a persistent container (EU West region). Cloudflare CDN Edge POP for static delivery. No application data leaves the European Union. AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is available for all users through Supabase Auth (TOTP, magic link) and can be enabled from the Settings page. Automatic MFA enforcement for administrator accounts is on the roadmap (Wave D+2); in the meantime, MFA can be activated manually by each user from their settings. Google and Microsoft Entra ID SSO is included via Supabase Auth, with no extra configuration. Generic SAML 2.0 SSO (Okta, Ping, ADFS) and SCIM 2.0 provisioning are in private pilot: activation on request with dedicated onboarding, contact sales@getscope.dev. Immutable audit logs, with retention duration and SIEM-ready export defined in the contract.

   The OpenRouter contract contractually relays the `data_collection=deny` directive to the LLM providers actually used by Scope (OpenAI GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5): your prompts can neither be logged nor used for training. These providers operate from the United States; transfers are governed by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission. An EU-resident routing option (Bedrock eu-west-3 for Claude, Mistral Large in Paris) is under internal validation. Standard DPA included in the contract, enriched to match your requirements. Full detail on the Security page.

5. 05Is the ROI measurable?

   Modeled estimate based on internal IT services firm costs observed in 2026 (not yet measured with a Scope customer): for a senior consultant on a €800 day rate, a proposal produced the old way mobilizes about 12 person-days spread over 3 weeks, i.e. ~€9,600 in internal cost. With Scope, the same deliverable is produced in half a day of effective work (~0.5 person-day), i.e. ~€400 in internal cost.

   Modeled estimate based on internal IT services firm costs observed in 2026 (not yet measured with a Scope customer): roughly €9,000 saved per proposal. Across 10 proposals per year, the gap (€90,000) far exceeds an annual Scope license — quotes are sized so payback lands within the first proposals produced. Expected secondary benefit (documented in pre-sales literature): a 5× shorter response time also lifts the win rate.

6. 06Adoption by my consultants?

   Scope is built around product-led growth: no mandatory training, no paid onboarding. Interface in formal French (vouvoiement), terminology of French consultancy pre-sales (work packages, person-days, day rate, RACI). A consultant produces their first proposal in their very first working session, with no prior setup: machine time is measured in minutes, the rest is their review.

   For team rollouts, a 30-minute onboarding workshop is offered on demand, over video, to configure the day-rate matrix and import your internal templates. Beyond that, the team is autonomous. Annual contracts also benefit from founder-led onboarding across the contract term.

7. 07Jira, Linear, Salesforce integrations?

   On the public 2026 roadmap: Salesforce connector (opportunity ↔ Scope proposal sync) in Q2, Jira and Linear (automatic epic creation from estimating work packages) in Q3. Customers on an annual license get early access to betas and a documented REST API for custom integrations.

   Outbound webhooks available today (events: proposal created, proposal signed, scoping validated). Track updates on our public changelog.

8. 08Procurement plan and enterprise billing?

   Pricing terms are defined in the quote and purchase order, in euros excluding tax. French VAT (20%) applies to customers billed in France; EU B2B customers with an intra-EU VAT number are billed under reverse charge. Payment by wire transfer against a purchase order, card (Stripe), or SEPA direct debit.

   Contracting starts with a structured paid pilot, with written success criteria, then continues with an annual license on quote. Depending on the contract: SIEM-ready audit, MSA, target availability 99.5% (best-effort), enriched DPA, contractual no-training, business-hours support (best availability: 1 business-hour best-effort), and HDS or SecNumCloud options on RFP. SAML 2.0 SSO and SCIM 2.0 provisioning available in private pilot, on request with dedicated onboarding. Quotes on the Contact page.

Document last updated April 26, 2026. For a tailored version with your volumes and day rates, request a sales quote.