
PR Agency or Another Engineer? How to Know When You’re Ready for a Real PR Investment
Life in startups and early-stage companies is a constant exercise in tradeoffs. You’re making high-stakes bets with limited runway, knowing each choice nudges your trajectory toward breakout growth… or a much harder road. Few decisions feel more existential than how to spend that next $15k per month on either a PR agency investment or additional engineering resources. Do you hire another engineer to accelerate product velocity? Or do you invest in a PR agency to accelerate market momentum? Both can be right. Both can be wrong. And evaluating the difference requires more than gut instinct or investor pressure — it requires a readiness check.




