Preface

Is this budget enough?Know before you say yes.

For designers and developers. Send your client a 2-minute brief before the call. Preface checks their budget against your base price, privately.

How it works

One project, two moments: a first read before the call, a firm price after it.

1Before the call

Send the quick brief

Tolu answers six questions on her phone. You watch the answers come in, no back-and-forth on WhatsApp.

Tolu’s quick brief

2 min · on her phone

What do you need?|
Where will people see it most?Instagram and packaging
When do you need it?In a month
Budget₦250,000
2Before the call

Walk in with a first read

A rough range and the two questions that will change the price, so the call is short and clear.

First read

Tolu’s Bakes

Ask on the call

How many logo ideas do you want to see?

Do you need social media templates too?

3After the call

Check the price, then share it

Add your time and see if the budget covers your base price. Tolu only ever sees the price you choose to send.

Price check

After the call

Your time6 days × ₦37,500
Your base price₦225,000
Tolu’s budget₦165,000
Budget ₦165kYour base price ₦225k
Fair price for this project₦270,000
How we worked this out

Short by ₦60,000. See what to cut

What your client sees

Your name, your note, your project types. No sign-up, no long form.

Priced the way you actually work

₦ or $. Pick the currency per client.

6 days

Days or weeks for ₦ clients. Hours for $ clients. Count time the way you bill it.

Power
₦70k
Data
₦30k
Tools
₦50k
Your day rate₦37,500

Your real costs. Power, data and tools, inside every price.

Why I made this

A client names a budget.

I’m scared they’ll walk, so I say yes.

Then the work takes far more than the money covers.

It happened three times in my first two years.

So I built the check I wish I’d had.

— Temi

Product Designer & AI-Assisted MVP & Web App Builder

temitayo.work

Questions

Yes. No card, no trial.

Yes, especially. Your base price comes from your own costs and your own time, not from what someone with 10 years charges. So you know your number before the client names theirs.

Your gut is often right, until the scope grows or your costs change. Preface checks your price against your real costs in a minute, and your client fills a short brief before the call, so you start the call prepared.

Never. They only see the price you choose to share.

No. They just open the link.

Yes. Pick dollars for that client and everything on their project shows in $.

Price your next project with confidence.

Free. No card, no trial.