--- title: How We Help Clients Spend Their Budget on the Right Things description: A design agency co-founder explains their approach to client budgeting: stating their rates before asking the client's budget, rejecting value-based pricing in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-help-clients-spend-their-budget-on-the-right-things-jwww5d3wx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How We Help Clients Spend Their Budget on the Right Things | daily.dev og:description: A design agency co-founder explains their approach to client budgeting: stating their rates before asking the client's budget, rejecting value-based pricing in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-help-clients-spend-their-budget-on-the-right-things-jwww5d3wx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jwWW5D3wX.png og:image:alt: How We Help Clients Spend Their Budget on the Right Things og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How We Help Clients Spend Their Budget on the Right Things **[Dribbble](https://daily.dev/sources/dribbble)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A design agency co-founder explains their approach to client budgeting: stating their rates before asking the client's budget, rejecting value-based pricing in favor of a transparent weekly rate, and using budget conversations to shape project scope. The piece argues that honesty about what a budget can realistically achieve builds long-term trust and repeat business, describes turning down underfunded or misguided projects, and stresses that rebuilding a poorly-scoped project is more expensive than doing it right the first time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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