A practical digital ebook for small design studio owners who want to protect project margin without making trusted clients feel pushed away. It shows you how to spot where unpaid work is entering a project, set clearer boundaries and handle scope changes with calm, commercially sound conversations. You will learn how to review recent projects, identify the requests and revision patterns that erode profitability, and make deliberate decisions instead of absorbing extra work automatically. The book takes you from The Margin Leak Review through What Are You Protecting When You Say Yes?, Draw the Line in Four Places, A Shared Scope Leaves Less to Memory, The Traffic Light Scope Check, Name the Change, Then Offer a Choice and Keep the Margin Visible Each Week. Use the process to clarify what is included, recognise when a request changes the agreement, offer clients a clear choice and keep commercial visibility throughout delivery. Designed for immediate online reading, it gives you practical questions, checks and conversation approaches that can be applied to live briefs, revisions, approvals and change requests.