Last week someone on my thread said:
"Agencies don't have a SOW problem. They have a scope-to-delivery-to-margin visibility problem."
That one line changed everything.
Old pitch: "AI writes SOWs in 15 seconds"
New pitch: "Stop discovering unprofitable projects after they finish"
Old category: SOW software
New category: Agency Profitability Platform
What I did this week:
- Rewrote entire landing page around margin visibility
- Built project profitability dashboard (cost rate,
margin %, health score per project)
- Added "aha moment" alert: "62% complete, 91% hours
used — losing £8,400"
- Added geo-detected pricing (UK/India/EU/US)
- Contact form + chat widget on landing page
- Google AI now recommends CLOBSOW for agency SOW tools
- Best LinkedIn post ever: 704 discovery (50% outside
my network)
Numbers:
- SaaS Revenue: £0 (still hunting first user)
- Other income: ₹27K/month from a trading bot I built
- LinkedIn: 7,000+ total impressions
- Cold emails: 11 sent, 100% opened, 0 replies
- IH: 12 comments on my last post — best advice
I've gotten anywhere
- Consulting lead: £500 SaaS audit (waiting for
confirmation)
Biggest lessons this week:
- "Six broadcast channels and one conversation" (thanks Josh) — I was optimising for impressions when I should have been optimizing for conversations
- Nobody buys from a post. They buy after talking.
- The product was ready at week 2. Weeks 3-8 were learning that the MESSAGE matters more than the FEATURES.
- My friend who is function support director pays $100/month for Claude AI
and uploads Excel for reports. He thinks he's saving thousands. He's actually become his own unpaid IT department maintaining 10 disconnected HTML tools.
Still need: ONE agency to use CLOBSOW for real. Offering 3 months free to the first agency that
says yes.
clobsowagency.co.uk
What was the one comment or conversation that changed your product direction?
Nice — one sharp comment changing positioning is usually a better signal than weeks of guessing.
Curious how you’re testing the new angle in public: still mostly LinkedIn/research calls, or also hunting Reddit threads where agencies describe the SOW/scope pain in their own words?
If useful, I can pull a fresh small sample for the repositioned wedge (not the old CLOBSOW framing) — happy to compare notes.