SAINT · A DARK WATER MEDIA PRACTICE

A proposal for
Mississippi Chiropractic.

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Updated May 11, 2026
UPDATED MAY 11, 2026 VIEWING MISSISSIPPI CHIROPRACTIC P.C. PORTLAND, OREGON

A system for the practice you've already built.

SAINT is a systems firm for service businesses with complex acquisition. We diagnose the current situation, build the acquisition and retention systems that fit, run the infrastructure alongside your team, and hand it off when the system is mature.

Prepared for
Dr. Clark
Pitcairn
Practice
Mississippi
Chiropractic
Engagement
Six months
minimum
From
SAINT
saint.agency

What we heard, in plain language.

Across the discovery conversations, a few things showed up clearly. You've spent two decades building a practice patients genuinely love. Reviews are exceptional. Word of mouth is real. The infrastructure underneath has done its job for twenty years.

What's shifting is the energy required to work with traditional insurance and the time it takes to be paid for it. You want to lean toward auto-accident patients because the math is cleaner, the patients arrive motivated, and Oregon's PIP structure pays reliably within thirty to sixty days.1,2

The piece you don't have yet is the connective infrastructure that turns that shift into a system. Attorney visibility. Online presence calibrated for accident patients. Workflow that doesn't pull Rachel into phone tag. The next six months build that.

"There's an opportunity to focus more on auto accident care. The economics work better, and the process is more straightforward."

FROM DISCOVERY NOTES

"Working with traditional insurance has gotten heavier over the years. PIP patients arrive motivated and the payment timeline is reliable."

FROM DISCOVERY NOTES

"The patients we have love being here. We want the right new patients to find their way in."

FROM DISCOVERY NOTES

Where the leverage actually lives.

Every SAINT engagement runs the situation through five layers. For each, we name what we observe, what it means for the practice, and what we suggest.

01 · ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE

The unit economics favor a different patient mix.

Observe
An Oregon PIP patient typically generates $3,500–$4,800 in collected revenue across 14–24 visits, paid within 30–60 days at 100% of reasonable and necessary charges.2,3
Meaning
Per-patient value materially higher than traditional insurance, with cleaner billing and faster collections.
Suggest
Re-weight the patient mix toward private-insurance PIP through targeted acquisition. Keep cash and traditional insurance patients you already serve well.
02 · COMPETITIVE POSITION

Different game, not louder version of the same one.

Observe
The dominant PI chain in the metro runs a high-volume, multi-location model built on attorney referral networks and standardized intake.
Meaning
Competing on volume is the wrong axis. The advantage is genuine relationship and reliability. Coffee shop, not Starbucks.
Suggest
Position around investment in each patient and each referring attorney. Build infrastructure that proves the relationship is real, not just claimed.
03 · ACQUISITION PIPELINES

Three pipelines, each with a different job.

Observe
Three distinct pipelines feed a PI chiropractic practice. Attorney referrals carry the highest per-patient value but materialize slowly. Direct patient acquisition (paid ads + search) is the fastest to revenue but lowest per-patient value. Patient-to-patient referrals compound the trust you've already built but require an active system, not just hope.4
Meaning
A practice running only one pipeline is fragile. A practice running all three with intention is durable and compounding. The fast pipeline funds the slower ones while they mature.
Suggest
Build all three pipelines in parallel. Direct acquisition online (LSA, Meta, Search) by week 5. Attorney pipeline in weeks 3–8. Patient referral system in weeks 2–3. Compounding effects show up by month 4.
04 · REFERRAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Both referral pipelines need a system underneath them.

Observe
Attorney referrals operate without shared workflow today. There's no portal for status, document requests, or progress visibility, so trust depends on phone tag. Patient referrals happen when patients think of it, not when they're in a moment of high trust like after a massage and adjustment. Industry data shows 48–72 hour response time is the differentiator between a valued attorney partner and a problem provider.4
Meaning
Both pipelines have meaningful conversion ceilings without supporting infrastructure. Friction leaves attorney referrals on the table. Forgotten moments leave patient referrals unspoken. The relationships are real. The systems aren't.
Suggest
Build a system for each. Attorney workspace with a 24-hour SLA on documents and status. Patient referral system with mapped touch points (post-treatment, milestone visits), trained staff, QR-linked cards, and a tracking workflow. Both systems make the existing relationship work harder.
05 · EXECUTION CAPACITY

Clinical bandwidth fits. Build bandwidth does not.

Observe
Clinical and front-desk operations are well-run. What's not feasible inside current bandwidth is the parallel build of ads, site, portal, content, and outreach systems.
Meaning
The system can't get built without external execution capacity. After it's built, the practice can absorb operations with light support.
Suggest
SAINT runs the build in parallel through weeks 1–8. Rachel takes on ~10 minutes/day of portal updates. Month 6 begins literacy training for ownership transfer.

The shape of working together.

You can be taken care of at Starbucks. It is not the same as walking into the neighborhood coffee shop and feeling connected to people who actually know you.

That frame applies to patients and attorneys alike. Reliability, real relationship, and the kind of frictionless experience that makes you the obvious choice. The chain offers reliability without the investment. Mississippi Chiropractic does both, and the system we're building removes every barrier between the right people and walking through your door. Three pipelines feed the practice, each with its own mechanism, timeline, and per-patient value.

PIPELINE 01

Attorney referral network.

A branded workspace for referring firms. Records, status, and updates a click away instead of a phone call away. Published 24-hour SLA. Active outreach to 20–30 Portland PI firms. The easiest referral in Portland to make and the easiest one to keep making. Highest per-patient value.

PIPELINE 02

Direct patient acquisition.

Google Local Service Ads first, then Meta and Google Search. Geo-targeted to NE Portland and surrounding corridors. Two landing pages built for accident-care intake. Fastest to revenue, broadest reach.

PIPELINE 03

Patient referral system.

Structured touch points during treatment, trained front desk and clinical staff, dedicated referral cards, "refer a friend" landing page, and tracking. Activates the trust you've already built with 20 years of patients. Compounds with every visit.

What gets built, in what order.

Five phases run through every SAINT engagement: Discovery, Assessment, Roadmap, Execution, Training. We are at the end of Roadmap together right now. The work below is Execution, organized by workstream.

WEEKS 1–3

Foundation.

PHASE 4A · EXECUTION

Three weeks where infrastructure gets built. Your time required: one 60-minute strategy call and a half-day capture shoot. Everything else happens in the background.

Strategy call & positioning

WEEK 1
  • 60-minute call with you and Rachel
  • Domain decision: Mississippi Chiropractic as primary, chiropdx.com redirect
  • Messaging lock: tagline, one-liner, three-line description
  • Brand asset audit: logo files, vector versions, palette, icons
  • Capture day shot list and talking points
  • Attorney target list with you and Rachel

Site & SEO build

WEEKS 1–4
  • Homepage, services, about, contact, blog index
  • Patient landing page for accident-care intake
  • Attorney landing page with VSL walkthrough of the portal
  • QR-code landing page for print materials
  • Hidden SEO blog infrastructure (SAINT maintains)
  • Mobile responsive across every page
  • Schema markup, Analytics, Search Console linked
  • Hosting, SSL, uptime monitoring, automated backups

Operations layer

INSIDE WEBSITE BUILD
  • Online booking integrated with the current scheduling system
  • Automated appointment reminders (SMS + email)
  • Digital intake forms, pre-populated before arrival
  • Post-visit review-request automation
  • HIPAA-compliant patient transportation setup (Uber Health)
  • Attorney record-request routing workflow
  • HIPAA consent workflow for content and records

Attorney workspace

WEEKS 2–3
  • Branded client portal configured under your domain
  • Business Associate Agreement signed (HIPAA)
  • 24-hour SLA documentation drafted and signed off
  • Attorney-facing one-pager designed and printed
  • VSL walkthrough produced for the portal
  • 3 pilot attorney logins activated

Paid acquisition setup

WEEKS 2–3
  • Google Business Profile rebuilt and verified
  • Google Local Service Ads campaign structure
  • Meta Ads account, campaigns, audiences, retargeting pixel
  • Call tracking and attribution configured
  • Conversion tracking on landing pages

Capture day

WEEK 2 OR 3
  • Half-day on-site production with videographer + direction
  • Video Sales Letter (~2 min, polished, Dr. Clark on screen)
  • Attorney portal walkthrough VSL with Dr. Clark hosting
  • 4–6 authority clips (30–60s vertical) for social and ads
  • Practice b-roll catalog for ongoing content use
  • Photography: headshot, exterior, environment
  • Editing of every asset listed above

Patient referral system

WEEKS 2–3
  • Referral moments mapped across treatment journey
  • Scripts written for front desk and clinical staff
  • Massage + adjustment combo as primary touch point
  • Referral cards designed and printed (QR-linked)
  • "Refer a friend" landing page on the new site
  • Tracking workflow inside patient management system
  • Training session with Rachel and clinical staff
WEEKS 3–8

Activation.

PHASE 4B · EXECUTION

Site goes live. Ads turn on. Attorney outreach begins. First patients begin arriving through new channels.

Launch sequence

WEEK 3–4
  • New site live with DNS cutover
  • Redirects from old URLs to preserve SEO equity
  • QR-code landing page active
  • Attorney portal live with login gate
  • First blog post published

Paid acquisition live

WEEK 4–5
  • Google Local Service Ads active and Google-verified
  • Meta ads launched, geo-targeted NE Portland
  • Retargeting pixel firing on every site visitor
  • Call tracking number deployed
  • First weekly performance review call

Attorney outreach blitz

WEEKS 3–8
  • 20–30 Portland PI firms identified and prioritized
  • Outreach leads with the portal + SLA, not credentials
  • Email sequence (warm and cold variants)
  • LinkedIn outreach from Dr. Clark's account (templates by SAINT, approval by Dr. Clark)
  • In-person intro meetings scheduled (Dr. Clark attends, SAINT preps)
  • First 5–10 attorneys activated in the portal

Content engine operational

WEEK 4+
  • Three pillars: authority, practice life, local relevance
  • 3 posts per week on Facebook + Instagram (SAINT writes, designs, schedules, publishes, engages)
  • 1 SEO blog post per week (hidden from front-end nav, indexed for search)
  • VSL pinned at top of social feeds
  • Authority clips on rotation
  • Nextdoor and Portland Facebook groups (where allowed) for distribution
MONTH 3

Optimization.

PHASE 4C · EXECUTION

Six weeks of data. We find what's working, redirect spend toward winners, and tune what's underperforming.

Ad creative rotation

ONGOING
  • Winning creatives scaled, underperformers retired, budget reallocated
  • Retargeting layer active for non-converting site visitors
  • First A/B test on landing page hero and CTA

Attorney portal review

MONTHLY
  • Active vs. inactive firms identified
  • Monthly newsletter to all referring attorneys
  • First tracked attorney referrals measured
  • Curated testimonial library (controlled format, beyond Google reviews)

Patient referral review

MONTHLY
  • Referring patients identified and tagged
  • Conversion rate by touch point (which moments are working)
  • Script refinements based on what's converting
  • Recognition or thank-you outreach to top referrers

Competitor monitoring

QUARTERLY
  • Portland PI chiropractic ad landscape report
  • Keyword ranking shifts
  • New entrants and tactics flagged
MONTH 4+

Acceleration.

PHASE 4D · EXECUTION

Referral pipeline materializes. New channels online. Compounding effects begin showing in the data.

Google Search Ads launch

MONTH 4
  • Long-tail local search campaigns active
  • Hard daily budget caps
  • Integrated with LSA so campaigns don't compete

Attorney referrals compound

MONTH 4–6
  • First cohort of referred patients in active treatment
  • Case outcomes shared with referring attorneys, within HIPAA limits
  • Second-tier outreach based on first-cohort response data

Content library payoff

MONTH 4–6
  • Capture-day footage still producing social content
  • Blog posts ranking for first long-tail terms
  • Email sequences for past-patient reactivation
MONTH 6

Evaluation + training.

PHASE 5 · TRAINING BEGINS

Real data, six months in. We review together. Decide what the next phase looks like.

Full program review

END OF MONTH 6
  • Patient volume, source attribution, revenue impact reviewed in detail
  • What worked, what didn't, what to adjust
  • Documentation of every system built, with ownership handoff plan

Operator literacy training

RACHEL · MONTHS 6+
  • How to read the dashboard (not how to run campaigns)
  • How to flag what's off and request attention
  • How to keep the attorney portal current

The Handoff conversation

MONTH 6 OR 9
  • Three paths forward, priced and scoped (detailed on the next page)
  • Honest read on which fits the practice right now
  • Timing is your call

Data first. Always.

We record everything to understand what's working and what isn't. We don't make claims that the data doesn't support. Here's what we track and what counts as a win.

METRIC 01

Qualified leads

People who contact the practice specifically about accident care via SAINT-tracked channels: LSA, Meta, Search, attorney portal, or QR landing page. Logged with source attribution.

METRIC 02

Lead-to-patient conversion

Percentage of qualified leads that become first-visit patients. Measures funnel health and front-desk response performance together.

METRIC 03

Attorney portal activity

Active firms, login frequency, document requests, SLA adherence. Indicator of referral pipeline health, leading indicator of referred-patient volume.

METRIC 04

Revenue attribution

Where collected revenue traces back to. Builds the case for which channels to scale, hold, or sunset. Recorded monthly.

WHAT WE COMMIT TO · WHAT WE DON'T SAINT delivers every line item in the engagement manifests, reports honestly on every metric above, and reallocates work toward what's producing. We don't guarantee a specific patient count or revenue figure because too many variables sit outside our control (close rate, treatment compliance, market conditions). If the system is not producing qualified lead volume that supports the math by month 4, we restructure the approach together at no additional cost.

Grounded in real numbers.

An Oregon private-insurance PIP patient generates approximately $3,500–$4,800 in collected revenue across treatment, paid at 100% of reasonable and necessary charges, typically within 30–60 days of submission.2,3 At that range, slightly more than one new PI patient per month covers the full monthly retainer.

The projection below uses the lower end of the industry value range and assumes patient volume materializes on the slow side, not the optimistic side. We report actuals every month. Numbers shown here are ranges, not commitments.

WHAT "CONSERVATIVE" MEANS HERE Per-patient value modeled at $3,500 (low end of industry data3). Attorney referral pipeline modeled at industry-typical 60–90 day lag.5 LSA approval window modeled at 2–4 weeks. Month-1 patient volume modeled near zero by design. Real patient mix may include attorney-represented cases worth materially more per patient, which would shift these numbers upward.
Month New PI patients Gross to practice SAINT + ad spend Net
01 0–1 $0–$3,500 Setup month Investment
02 1–2 $3,500–$7,000 ~$4,300 ~break-even
03 2–3 $7,000–$10,500 ~$4,300 +$2,700–$6,200
04 3–5 $10,500–$17,500 ~$4,600 +$5,900–$12,900
05 4–6 $14,000–$21,000 ~$4,600 +$9,400–$16,400
06 5–7 $17,500–$24,500 ~$4,600 +$12,900–$19,900
SIX-MONTH RANGE 15–24 patients $52,500–$84,000 ~$32,000 +$20,500–$52,000

Ad spend included in SAINT + ad spend column (months 2–6). Attorney-represented cases in Oregon can run materially higher per patient than the modeled floor, particularly when treatment durations extend or attorney negotiations on lien rates apply. The model shows the cautious view because that's the right view for planning.

Sources Cited
  1. Oregon Revised Statutes 742.520 & 742.524, Personal Injury Protection coverage requirements. oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_742.524
  2. Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services, Insurance Division. PIP minimum coverage $15,000 per person, 100% of reasonable and necessary medical expenses, 2-year coverage period.
  3. Revenue MedResources, Personal Injury Billing for Chiropractors (2026). Industry-typical PI case billing range $3,500–$4,800. revenuemedresources.com
  4. Chiropractic Economics, "Personal Injury: Chiropractic's High-Growth Opportunity" (2026). Attorney partnerships as dominant PI referral channel; 48–72 hour response time as key partnership marker. chiroeco.com
  5. Industry observation, attorney referral pipeline typically requires 60–90 days to materialize once outreach begins.
07 · THE DECISION

Is this what you need?

If the diagnosis lands and the roadmap matches what you want the next six months to look like, the engagement details are on the next page. Deliverables broken out, pricing line by line, the handoff conversation, everything. If you have questions first, send them and we'll work through them.

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