Founder narrative
The month DORA compliance arrived in someone else's contract, at 75K MRR
A composite founder diary. A payments customer sent an eleven page DORA addendum with a one percent of turnover penalty clause. Four days of reading the regulation showed that no EU regulator could fine us at all, that the size relief is reserved for regulated firms, and that the real cost was free incident support written into the contract.
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