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How SOW Studio turns discovery into a signature-ready SOW

One connected workflow, in the order the work actually happens. Every screen below is the real SOW Studio application — click any preview to view it full size.

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01

Capture Discovery

Nothing said in the room gets lost

Scoping rarely happens in one meeting. Collect transcripts, meeting notes, audio recordings, and supporting documents across every discovery session in the engagement, so context accumulates in one place instead of scattering across inboxes and drives.

  • Transcripts, written notes, audio recordings, and supporting documents
  • Multiple discovery sessions across weeks, attached to one engagement
  • Source material stays traceable behind everything it produced
Discovery: every session's transcript, notes, and documents in one engagement record.
02

Turn Discovery Into Requirements

Fewer requirements lost between the call and the estimate

SOW Studio analyses the accumulated discovery context and proposes a structured view of the engagement: requirements and findings, assumptions, risks and open questions, and the scope intelligence that should influence the estimate. Your team reviews, edits, and approves.

  • Requirements and findings grouped for efficient review
  • Open questions surfaced before they become change orders
  • Assumptions and risks captured for the SOW narrative
Discovery: every session's transcript, notes, and documents in one engagement record.
03

Build the Estimate

A credible number in the same sitting

The Estimation Worksheet is created from the discovery context and your company Services Catalog — then it stays yours to work in. Adjust lines, add services, change quantities and phases, and watch the totals respond before anything is approved.

  • Drafted from your own services, structure, and rates
  • Line-level editing with suggested and catalog entries side by side
  • Phase and grouping structure that carries into the SOW
The Estimation Worksheet: drafted from discovery and your Services Catalog, fully editable.
04

Add Estimation Intelligence

Works on day one, gets more precise as you mature

There are two paths, and only one of them requires setup. AI-assisted estimation works immediately with no formula rules at all. If your firm has — or wants to develop — an estimating methodology, you can add configurable estimation drivers and rules, with AI assistance to help build them. Formula-based estimation is optional, never a prerequisite.

  • Path one: AI-assisted estimating from discovery context and your catalog
  • Path two: configurable drivers such as integrations, environments, or record volumes
  • AI can help draft rules from how your team already estimates
Estimation rules turn repeatable delivery patterns into consistent math — optional.
05

Collaborate Before You Commit

Agreement before the document exists

Present Mode turns the Estimation Worksheet into a clean review view you can walk through with internal reviewers or with the client. Trim a phase, revise an assumption, move scope to a later stage — the edits and the running total happen live, before anything is finalised.

  • A presentation view that keeps internal mechanics out of the conversation
  • Live edits during the review, reflected in the total immediately
  • Decisions captured in the same record that generates the SOW
Present Mode: review and edit the worksheet live with your team or the client.
06

Generate the SOW

A document you would be happy to send today

Approved scope and estimate data become a professional Statement of Work, combined with your configurable clauses and legal content and the signature sections your process requires. Export to Word when legal or the partner wants final control of the wording.

  • Configurable clause and legal content library, maintained once
  • Engagement details and signature sections included
  • Word (.docx) export for final editing and your signature process
The generated Statement of Work, ready for review, Word export, and signature.
07

Move From Sale to Delivery

Delivery starts from what the client actually signed

Project Handoff converts the accumulated discovery, approved scope, estimate, and SOW context into a delivery-oriented handoff summary — so the important context of the sale is not lost on the way to the project team.

  • Executive summary, client snapshot, objectives, and success metrics
  • Assumptions and exclusions preserved alongside the signed document
  • A traceable line from discovery input to delivery kickoff
Project handoff: scoping context carried into delivery instead of reconstructed.
08

Workspace Setup

Configured once, so every engagement looks like your firm

Your workspace holds the Services Catalog, estimation rules, clause library, and branding used across the whole workflow — so client-facing views and generated documents carry your identity, not ours.

Workspace setup: your catalog, clauses, and branding configured once for the whole firm.

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