Certification gated, low capital and consistently needed. Families find you in the first exhausted fortnight of a baby's life, which makes being easy to book the most valuable thing on this page.
Go-Live, $6,500. Every price is on this page. Two builds a month, waitlist beyond.
Lactation consulting, by the numbers
Typical startup cost
$2,000 to $8,000
What consultants charge
$150 to $350 a visit
Realistic time to first client
One to two months
Typical market ranges, not a promise of earnings. Your state, your market and your pricing decide the real numbers.
Before you can open
Certification, then availability.
The clinical requirement is the credential. The commercial requirement is being reachable within a day.
IBCLC or equivalent certification
You do this
The gate for this model. Nothing we build substitutes for it.
Professional entity
We do this
Usually a professional entity for clinical care. Filing coordinated.
Malpractice cover for hands-on care
You do this
Specific to lactation consulting and home visits.
Consent and clinical documentation
We do this
Visit notes, consent and care plans, whether or not you bill insurance.
Same or next day booking
We do this
Families need help now. Visible availability converts better than any copy.
Insurance or private pay decision
Ours to plan
Superbills and reimbursement paperwork, or clean private pay. We build for whichever you choose.
Can you own a lactation consulting practice in your state?
Nursing care inside your own licence plus a certification, so corporate practice rules rarely reach it and a medical director is not usually required. Insurance participation is the real branching decision, and it changes your paperwork rather than your ownership.
What we build for a lactation consulting practice.
Your track is decided by what the business actually does, not by your budget. Published scope caps and a written not-included list, every time.
Your track
6 weeks
Go-Live, Practice
$6,500
or 6 payments of $1,083
Everything a clinical business needs to open: the structure and documentation handled first, then the brand, the site and the systems that take bookings and payment.
Full brand system and a complete site for your business type
PHI-capable intake, consent and standing-order scaffolds
Records flow, and scope-of-practice reality for your state
Booking, payments and packages wired and tested
Follow-up, no-show and review automations
A walkthrough library so you can run it yourself
Published scope caps and a written not-included list
Ninety days of Rounds included
We build what your state allows. We are not your lawyer, and regulated builds are reviewed by a healthcare attorney.
Before you commit to a build: one session that walks your whole intended operation and tells you plainly whether a lactation consulting practice is the right thing to open.
Licensure and model: whether you can own it, and as what
Offer and pricing, walked properly rather than guessed
The client journey, end to end
The tech stack you actually need, and what to skip
Your launch sequence, in order
One page summary and the recording within 48 hours
Fifty percent to book, fifty before launch, or six monthly payments at the same total. Interest free, never a discount. Every Go-Live includes ninety days of Rounds, then $179 a month if you keep it. All services and add-ons.
Questions nurses ask about a lactation consulting practice.
For this model, effectively yes. It is the credential families and referrers look for, and we will not build a page implying otherwise.
Private pay is faster to start and simpler to run. Insurance widens access and adds administration. Many practices start private pay with superbills and add insurance later.
Paediatricians, midwives, doulas, birth centres and parent groups. Referral material is part of the build because word of mouth is the channel.
Most practices do both, and the booking is built for the mix rather than assuming one or the other.
Ready to open your practice?
Fifteen minutes with a fellow nurse who has built nurse-led businesses, not a coach. The prices are already on this page, so the call is not a pitch.
