Straight answers to the questions people ask before subscribing. Anything not covered here — just email digest@cullingdigital.com and a real person (me) will answer.
Public government records: USASpending.gov and SAM.gov for the federal contract products, and the Florida DBPR licensee file for the license tracker. Nothing here is scraped from behind a login or bought from a data broker — it's the same public data you could pull yourself, filtered and delivered so you don't have to. Full detail on the methodology page.
No. Culling Digital is an independent one-person operation. We summarize public information; we're not affiliated with SAM.gov, USASpending, DBPR, or any agency, and nothing we send is an official notice.
You're paying for the scan, not for secret data. Every week the right filters get run across the whole state and only what's new lands in your inbox, formatted to read in a couple of minutes. The alternative is remembering to do that yourself, consistently, forever. Most people don't — that's the whole value.
Checkout completes, you're added instantly, and a real welcome email lands within seconds — not a wait until the next scheduled send. Curious what it actually says? Here's the real thing, word for word, for all 3 products.
One click, no phone call, no "please don't go" flow. Every subscription email includes a link to your Stripe billing portal — a page Stripe hosts (not us) where you can cancel, pause, or update your card yourself, instantly. If you'd rather just reply "cancel" to any email, that works too — the system processes it right away, no waiting on a person to see it.
They might. The award data is public, so the edge was never secrecy — it's timing and consistency. You find out the week a contract enters its recompete window or the week an award posts, instead of after the solicitation is already out. Acting early on public information still beats acting late on it.
The underlying government data is generally reliable but not perfect, and there can be reporting lag on the agency side. We don't guarantee completeness — treat each digest as a fast first look and verify anything you'd bid on against the primary source. That's exactly why there's a 30-day money-back guarantee: check our output against your own sources, risk-free.
Yes. No contract, no minimum term. Cancel from the billing-portal link in any email, or just reply "unsubscribe" / "STOP" and you'll be removed within one business day — billing stops and your record is deactivated (and then permanently deleted within 30 days, per the privacy policy).
Checkout runs entirely on Stripe. Your card details go straight to Stripe — we never see or store them. We also never sell or share your email.
It sends one notice per license to the address on file — easy to miss if that's an old email or if you're an office manager tracking a dozen licenses across field staff. The License Compliance Tracker watches every license you list in one place and warns you at 90, 60, and 30 days out.
A welcome email arrives right after checkout. After that, the federal digests go out weekly as new records appear; license reminders go out as each license approaches its 90/60/30-day marks.
Within one business day — usually much faster. Straightforward questions often get answered the same hour; anything involving your billing or account I handle personally, but you'll still hear from a real person (me) within one business day. There's no ticket queue and no bot pretending to be a person.
Fair question for any solo operation, so here's the honest answer. First, you're never trapped: billing is month-to-month (or annual for licenses) and you can cancel yourself any time straight through Stripe, with no action needed from me. Second, nothing you rely on is locked inside my head — every product is built on public records (USASpending.gov, SAM.gov, Florida DBPR), so the data you'd want is always reachable at the source even if this service paused. And if I ever had to wind the service down, my commitment is simple: I'd email subscribers first, stop billing, and honor the 30-day guarantee — you would not quietly keep getting charged for something that stopped.