u/stphnkuester

16 months into a B2B vertical SaaS (compliance workflow for healthcare providers), currently $24k MRR growing 18-24% monthly. Been running standard growth playbook and all trackable but the capital efficiency is backwards.

Looking at PR because every company in our space that broke through $150k MRR points to a trade publication or tech runch piece as the catalyst. BUT the pricing model is completely misaligned with bootstrapped companies. Agencies want $14-18k monthly retainers, 6-month commitments, zero placement guarantees. Thats $84-108k in burn with no downside protection. The risk asymmetry is brutal but they get paid for effort regardless of output, I carry 100% of execution risk.

For founders who used PR successfully, did you find performance based structures (pay per placement, cost per acquisition, revenue share) or is the entire PR industry locked into billable hours?

I live in texas and have been looking into the whole montana llc vehicle registration thing for a custom build i am planning. From what I understand, you don’t actually need to live in montana because the vehicle is owned by the llc, not personally.

What i am still confused about is how this works in practice long term

I tried qustodio and norton family but they are either too invasive or too easy for my kids to work around. Is bark different?

I want to hear from people who have worked cases or had any exposure to HHS-OIG work. Its my first year on the compliance side and starting to realize there’s a big difference between how things are supposed to work on paper and how they actually play out IRL.

Exclusion screening is always treated as a big deal. Checking the OIG, running sanction screening, doing ongoing checks etc.

But internally I see its not always as tight as it sounds. Some orgs have solid processes, others are a bit more… loose? Depending on staffing and priorities

What i am trying to understand is how this shows up on your side.

When investigations happen, do gaps in exclusion screening or provider exclusion checks actually come up often? Or is it more of a secondary issue tied to something bigger like billing or fraud?

Not looking for anything sensitive obviously, just trying to understand how much this matters in practice vs how its presented in training