Free Tool · Scope

Project engineering scope builder

Select the engineering work packages your project needs, set your assumptions, and get an estimated effort, duration, and fee range — plus a clean scope summary you can drop into a brief or statement of work. Everything updates as you click.

Assumptions

Drives duration & fee
Scales every work package
$ /hr
Senior engineering consulting
h/wk
Hours applied per week
%
Upper bound of fee range

Work packages

How the estimate is built

Each work package carries a baseline effort for a typical moderate-complexity product. Selecting a package adds its baseline hours, scaled by your complexity factor (0.7× simple to highly regulated). Project management is modeled as 15% of the other selected work, the way coordination effort actually scales with scope.

Duration is total hours ÷ weekly capacity, rounded up. The fee estimate is hours × blended rate; the upper figure adds your contingency for scope risk and discovery. Treat the output as a planning-grade order of magnitude — a real proposal is sized to your specific drawings, tests, and suppliers, not a checklist.

Want a real engineering plan for this scope?

If you want a real engineering plan based on your product — the right work packages, sequenced, with deliverables and a firm quote — schedule a consultation. Paste your scope summary and we'll refine it together.

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