Keep internal costs out of client documents

Check output boundaries when a workspace holds both pricing assumptions and client terms.

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Separate purposes

An engagement manager may need staff cost rates, contribution and sensitivity assumptions. A client usually needs the agreed fee, payment stages and scope. Storing both in one workspace is convenient, but the export needs an explicit audience.

Build a recipient checklist

Before sharing, inspect headers, tables, notes, attachments and hidden sheets. Search for internal rates and comments as well as obvious cost tables. A file called “client proposal” can still contain the wrong material if the export includes every field.

Use a negative test

Enter a distinctive sample internal note and cost rate, then generate the client output. Confirm the note and rate are absent while agreed fee and scope remain correct. Repeat after a revision and from an earlier approved version. This tests the actual output boundary rather than its label.

Retain the business context

A client may legitimately need a cost breakdown for a particular procurement. Make that a deliberate commercial choice with an appropriate document, rather than a default exposure of internal estimates. ContractCanvas’s local outputs should be evaluated against the intended recipient before any real information is used.