AI TOOLS — S-003 · TRACK · OPEN
Which one
is drifting.
Client relationships do not blow up. They drift — a little later each invoice, one more small add. Track is built to give every client a score from what you log, so the pattern shows up while it is still one email to fix.
Track is running at clearbound.app. The screen below is a mock-up drawn for this page, not a product shot — the real one is behind that link. Anyone who owns a volume pays half.
MOCK-UP — NOT A LIVE SCREEN
THREE STEPS
Log it.
Watch it.
Act early.
STEP 01
Log the moment
Invoice sent, invoice paid, scope add, weekend ping. Ten seconds an event, and deliberately manual — no inbox access, no integration reading a stream you did not choose.
STEP 02
Watch the score
Every event feeds one score per client: good, drift, or at risk. Payment slowing, scope adds stacking, off-hours requests repeating — the score moves and tells you which of those moved it.
STEP 03
Read the Monday digest
One email a week: who changed state, what is overdue, which pattern is forming, and what to handle first.
THE SIGNALS
The patterns you
only see in hindsight.
Every freelancer has said it: looking back, the signs were all there. The job is moving that sentence from afterwards to during.
Payment velocity
Six days, then fourteen, then thirty — the slide from prompt to overdue, caught at fourteen.
Scope drift
Each small add logged and counted, because the third one is a pattern rather than a favour.
Boundary tests
Weekend pings, off-channel requests, deadline squeezes — how often each client pushes, and whether it is increasing.
Communication shifts
The warm client gone short, the responsive one gone quiet — changes worth noticing before they are a surprise.
Revision churn
Rounds per deliverable — the client whose one more pass is quietly eating the margin.
The good ones, too
Fast payers, clean scopes, no drama — the clients who have earned more of your calendar, with the record to show it.
SIX WEEKS, ONE CLIENT
No single event
looks like a problem.
A late invoice is a fluke. A scope add is generosity. A Saturday ping is dedication. Individually each one is nothing, which is exactly why the pattern gets noticed a quarter too late.
Payment slowing and repeat scope adds, together. Reset the terms now — the Scope Creep volume has the email for exactly this, and it is a much shorter conversation this week than it is in a month.
THE FRAMEWORK UNDERNEATH
Three states.
Each one is a move.
The score is not a grade, it is a direction. Every state maps to something to do, and every one of those has a volume behind it.
THE REST OF THE APP
Three tools,
three problems.
Each one is a separate subscription because each answers a different question. All three are open now.
OWN A VOLUME? PAY HALF.
Track raises it.
The volumes answer it.
Track flags the overdue pattern; Getting Paid has the chase sequence already written. It names the drift; Scope Creep has the reset. Own any volume and Track is half price.
price
Track is monthly.
Billed month to month, cancel whenever — it is the only part of ClearBound that is rented rather than bought. Own any volume and it is half price for as long as you subscribe.
ABOUT TRACK
Straight
answers.
Can I use it now?
Yes. Track is running at clearbound.app — make an account and it is there. A subscription unlocks it, and owning any volume halves the price.
How does it know what is happening with my clients?
You tell it, and telling it takes about ten seconds: invoice sent, invoice paid, scope add, weekend ping. No inbox access, no calendar access, no integration reading anything on your behalf. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature.
How is the score calculated?
Transparently, from your own logged events — payment speed and its trend, how often scope changes, how often boundaries get tested. You can always open a score and see which events moved it.
Is what I paste in safe?
The design rule is narrow on purpose: anything you paste is used to produce the one answer you asked for, and nothing else. Not published, not sold, not used as training data. The privacy policy says this in the terms you can hold us to.
Will I need the volumes to use it?
No. They are separate purchases and each works alone. They do pull in the same direction: the volumes teach the reasoning, the app applies it to a message the volumes could not have anticipated.
How does the half price work?
Own any volume and every app tool is 50% off for as long as you subscribe. Buying a volume now is the way to have it — the ladder starts at $16, and the six-volume System is $79.