Banana Scope by Banana Labs
Small changes.
Clear boundaries.
Banana Scope catches client change requests in your Slack and Discord project channels. It checks each one against the scope you agreed, breaks down and estimates the work, and sends your client an approval link once your project lead signs off.
Live, and in use with paying software businesses.
The agreed scope
Booking page
- Session selection
- Contact details
- Booking confirmation
S4 Online payments are excluded.
A client message in Slack
“Can we add online payments? Should be quick.”1 :banana: reaction
Cites S4. Work broken down and estimated for approval.
01 / The problem
The request is small.
The work behind it is not.
“Can we add online payments?” sounds like one button. In practice it brings refunds, failed payments, webhook security and database changes. Before the team builds it for free, someone has to check the request against what the client signed.
Then the client asks the next question: how much, and how long? Banana Scope answers both from the scope itself, inside the channel where the request arrived.
Protect your margin.
Bill for the small changes agencies often absorb because quoting them feels awkward.
Settle changes sooner.
Move from a client’s request to a signed change with fewer meetings, estimates and long emails.
Keep the relationship clear.
Contract clauses and a visible work breakdown replace arguments about what was agreed.
02 / How it works
From a client message
to an approved change.
Banana Scope works where your team already talks to clients, and hands approved work to the tools your developers use.
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Slack and Discord bot
Catch it in the conversation.
Add the bot to the project channel you share with your client. As a ghost listener, it spots messages that read like a change, such as “while you’re at it”, “can we change the logic” or “add this integration”, and sends a private note only the project lead can see. Or react with :banana: to any client message, and it reviews the whole thread.
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WBS and estimation
Break it down and price it.
Banana Scope checks the request against the agreed scope and cites the clause it falls outside of. It then breaks the work down across frontend, backend, database and QA. Your agency’s hourly rates and risk buffer turn those hours into a cost and a timeline impact.
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Client portal
Get the client’s approval.
When the project lead approves the draft in Slack, Banana Scope creates a secure client portal link. The client sees their own request, the contract clause that does not cover it, the work breakdown, cost and timeline, and approves with one click. Approval can send a deposit invoice through your agency’s own Stripe or QuickBooks account.
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Living Scope and task sync
Keep the scope current.
Each approved change is merged into the scope as a new version, for example from v1.0 to v1.1, and later checks use the updated scope. The work breakdown goes to Jira or Linear as issues tagged
[Billable-CR]on the matching milestone.
End to end
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The client asks for a change in Slack or Discord.
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Banana Scope flags it and cites the scope clause.
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The work is broken down into dev hours, cost and timeline impact.
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The project lead approves in Slack, and the client gets a portal link.
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The client approves, and a deposit invoice goes out from your Stripe account.
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Tasks sync to Jira or Linear, and the scope moves to v1.1.
Walk through an example
Illustrative example Pre-written sample data, not live AI output.
Agreed scope: booking page, v1.0
- S1Customers choose a session and an available time.
- S2A contact form collects booking details.
- S3Button labels and confirmation copy can be edited.
- S4Online payments are excluded from this version.
Review
Outside the agreed scopeThe agreed scope excludes online payments in S4, so this is new work to agree with the client before anyone builds it.
Cited: S4, online payments are excludedDraft change request Awaiting project lead approval
Add online payments to the booking page
| Layer | Work | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend | Checkout form, validation and payment states | 6 |
| Backend | Payment API route and webhook handler | 8 |
| Database | Payments table migration | 2 |
| QA | Failed-payment and refund test cases | 4 |
20 hours at a sample rate of $80 an hour: $1,600. Timeline: +3 working days.
03 / Built on Claude
Claude reads.
People decide.
Banana Scope runs on the Claude API. Claude does the reading and the technical breakdown. Your project lead and your client make the decisions.
- Read
Reads client messages against the scope.
Claude reads the client’s message and its thread alongside the project scope your agency agreed.
- Cite
Points to the clauses that apply.
Findings cite the scope clauses they rely on, so your team can check them against the contract.
- Break down
Splits the change into tasks.
Claude breaks the work into frontend, backend, database and QA tasks. Cost and timeline come from the rates and risk buffer your agency sets.
- Approve
People sign off.
The project lead approves the draft before the client sees it, and the client approves the change before a deposit invoice is sent.
04 / In use
Banana Scope is in use today with paying software businesses.
05 / Pricing
Priced by project.
Unlimited seats.
Every plan includes unlimited seats and starts with a 14‑day free trial on one real project. When the trial ends, you choose a plan.
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Starter
For boutique agencies
$79 / month
$65 / month
Billed monthly
Billed yearly at $780 a year
Or $65 a month billed yearly ($780 a year)
Start a free trial- Active projects
- Up to 3
- Seats
- Unlimited
- Slack and Discord bot
- Included, with the :banana: reaction
- WBS and estimation
- Basic task breakdown
- Client portal
- On a Banana Scope subdomain
- Integrations
- Export as text or Markdown
- Living Scope
- Keeps the 2 most recent versions
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Growth
For established agencies
$199 / month
$165 / month
Billed monthly
Billed yearly at $1,980 a year
Or $165 a month billed yearly ($1,980 a year)
Start a free trial- Active projects
- Up to 10
- Seats
- Unlimited
- Slack and Discord bot
- Ghost listener and :banana: reaction
- WBS and estimation
- Full WBS with suggested hours and pricing
- Client portal
- White-label, with your agency’s logo
- Integrations
- Auto-sync with Linear, Jira and Stripe
- Living Scope
- Unlimited version history
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Scale
For large agencies
$449 / month
$375 / month
Billed monthly
Billed yearly at $4,500 a year
Or $375 a month billed yearly ($4,500 a year)
Start a free trial- Active projects
- Unlimited
- Seats
- Unlimited
- Slack and Discord bot
- Fully customisable
- WBS and estimation
- Custom formulas and role rates
- Client portal
- Your own custom domain, such as scope.agency.com
- Integrations
- Custom webhooks, plus Trello, Asana and ClickUp
- Living Scope
- Multi-contract and addendum PDF export
14‑day free trial
Try Banana Scope on one real project for 14 days. When the trial ends, you choose a plan. Nothing upgrades or charges automatically.
Extra active projects
Add active projects to your plan at $25 a month each.
The arithmetic
One billed change can cover the plan.
Say your agency bills a developer hour at $50 to $100. A client asks to change the checkout flow, and the work takes 15 hours that nobody bills: $750 to $1,500 of revenue is gone. Growth costs $199 a month and covers up to 10 active projects. If it helps you bill one change like that in a month, the plan has paid for itself, with money to spare.
- 15 unbilled hours at $50 to $100 an hour
- $750–$1,500
- Growth, per month, for up to 10 active projects
- $199
06 / Team
Banana Labs
A startup team in Vietnam, building since March 2026. Banana Scope is our product.
07 / Contact
Talk to us.
To start a free trial, ask about Banana Scope for your agency, or anything else, email the team.