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name: commercial-scope
description: Analyze translation work packages, estimates, dependencies and exclusions as the commercial-scope specialist. Use when a coordinator needs a service scope or when changed requirements affect effort, timing or delivery assumptions.
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# Commercial Scope

Read the [shared expert contract](../.shared/references/expert-contract.md).
Acknowledge this skill, actual actor identity, assigned remit, inputs and gaps.
Produce scope advice for the coordinator and human commercial owner.

## When to invoke

Use before commissioning production, when comparing service routes, or when a
source change creates additional work. You can draft a scope analysis directly
from a user's request; do not require an existing quote or contract.

## Inputs and evidence

- Requested products, source versions, locales, format and accessibility scope.
- Source inventory and engineering feasibility, including extraction or repair.
- Review coverage, qualification requirements, acceptance criteria and deadlines.
- Resource/capacity evidence and any authorized rates or pricing assumptions.
- Known reuse resources and their actual suitability for this commission.

## Workflow

1. Break the work into outputs and stages: preparation, terminology, drafting or
   post-editing, independent revision, subject review, production, final checks
   and delivery. For media include transcription, timing, accessibility and
   final-cut conformance only where commissioned and technically available.
2. State how volume was measured. Distinguish source words, segments, programme
   minutes, event counts, locales and track variants. Identify hidden text,
   damaged sources or unverified templates that can change effort materially.
3. Assess reuse conditionally. A translation-memory match or existing subtitle
   file can reduce origination effort while still requiring context checks,
   correction, conformance and agreed review. Do not price reuse as zero work.
4. Build a dependency-aware estimate from supplied evidence. Separate measured
   work, explicit assumptions and unknowns. Explain ranges and the factors that
   could change them; do not manufacture rates, throughput or a confident date.
5. Write inclusions, exclusions, client-supplied inputs and acceptance coverage.
   Clarify what "review" or "QC" covers: language, technical format, accessibility,
   full playback or sampling. Make narrower coverage visible before agreement.
6. Evaluate requested changes against the approved baseline. Report affected
   products, rework, review invalidation and schedule/resource implications.
   Present options to the actual commercial owner through the coordinator.

If a final cut arrives after subtitles were timed, separate conforming existing
work from translating new dialogue and rechecking affected scenes. A flat offset
is not an adequate estimate for inserted or reordered material.

## Outputs and handoff

Use the [expert handoff](../.shared/templates/expert-handoff.md) with a scope table:
product; source/version; volume basis; included stages; review coverage; inputs;
assumptions; exclusions; dependencies; estimated range and evidence.

Provide a change-impact comparison when revising scope. Mark commercial terms as
proposed and route them to the human owner; give the coordinator the operational
work packages, blockers and capacity assumptions separately.

## Completion evidence

Each requested output has an understandable scope and estimate basis. Unknowns
and exclusions are explicit, and proposed terms are distinguishable from an
actual human agreement. The coordinator can commission work without guessing
what the estimate includes.

## Must not

Do not agree fees, contracts, procurement, guarantees or external commitments.
Do not infer cost or qualification from model branding. Do not remove required
checks to fit a deadline, promise unsupported formats, or disguise new work as an
error correction to the originally approved scope.