Who this is for.
- You run an independent or boutique regulatory practice. You’re the founder, the specialist, or one of a few partners.
- Your engagements run about $15,000 and up.
- Most of your work still comes from referrals, and the quiet months scare you more than you’d say out loud.
- You’ll show up: an hour a month for the interview, and time on LinkedIn replying to people.
Not for you if you want it 100% hands-off, your offer is under $15k, or you need results in 30 days.
Why regulatory consultants are hard to write for.
A writer who doesn’t know the field can’t tell a Design History File from a design review. Your buyers can, in the first sentence. That’s why generic LinkedIn content reads as outside-in to a VP of Regulatory Affairs, and why reposted FDA news is close to the worst thing you can post.
In September we went through the LinkedIn feeds of 80 independent regulatory and medtech consultants. The posts that worked were field reports from live work, three times a week, followed by a lot of replying. That’s what the Authority Engine is built to produce.
How it works.
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The interview
About an hour, recorded, once a month. You talk, we probe: “wait, go back, what exactly did the reviewer ask?” That second answer is the one nobody else could write.
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The bank
Your stories, the nouns your buyers use, and the things your market believes that are quietly wrong, pulled from what you actually said.
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The posts
Three a week in your voice, roughly two thirds text and one third infographics in your brand. You approve every one. Nothing goes out without your yes.
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The inbound
The narrow market that buys from you starts to recognise your name, and referrals stop being your only source of work.
“The people who are coming to me have decided to work with me before they even arrange a call.”
David Pudwill spent nine years inside FDA before starting FDA Blueprint. In 90 days of posts built from his own interviews, his LinkedIn impressions went from 21,800 to 393,677 a quarter, and his qualified calls went from 3–4 to 12–16 a month, without ads.
What it costs.
$4,500/month
Programs start at $4,500 a month.
Month to month, no long contract, but plan on 90 days: the first three months are the groundwork everything else runs on (your ideal client, their language, your offer, your LinkedIn profile). Seven clients at a time.
Questions regulatory consultants ask.
How do independent FDA regulatory consultants get clients without referrals?
By being visible to the narrow group of people who hire them before they need to. Medtech founders, VPs of Regulatory and quality leads all read LinkedIn. A consultant who posts field reports from real submissions three times a week becomes the name they already know when a 510(k) or De Novo project comes up. Contour builds that from one interview a month. The full playbook is in How Independent FDA Regulatory Consultants Get Clients Without Referrals.
Who helps regulatory consultants build a client pipeline on LinkedIn?
Contour does, and only for independent experts in regulatory, medtech and other deep technical fields. The Authority Engine turns a monthly interview into three LinkedIn posts a week in the consultant’s own words, with every post approved by them.
Is Contour a LinkedIn ghostwriter?
No. A ghostwriter writes for you, and no ghostwriter can go as deep into a 510(k) strategy or a Design History File as you can. So we don’t try. We interview you, then edit and publish what you said: your stories, your numbers, your sentences. Contour is closer to an editor and publisher than a ghostwriter. That’s why the posts sound like you in a way a ghostwriter’s never could. You approve every one.
How much does LinkedIn content cost for a regulatory consultant?
At Contour, programs start at $4,500 a month for one interview, three posts a week and infographics in your brand. The model is built for consultants whose engagements run $15,000 and up, where one new client a quarter more than covers it.
What should a medtech regulatory consultant post on LinkedIn?
Field reports from live work: what a reviewer actually asked, the deficiency nobody expected, the decision that saved a client six months. Not reposted FDA press releases. The full breakdown from 80 consultants’ feeds is in LinkedIn for Regulatory Consultants: The 2026 Playbook.
How much time does it take from me?
About an hour a month for the interview, a few minutes to approve posts, and time on LinkedIn replying to comments. David Pudwill spends about five hours a week, mostly replying.
How long until it works?
Plan on 90 days. The first three months set up your ideal client, their language, your offer and your profile. Judge it at 90 days, not 30.