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Any service that promises to land you on a brand-name publication invites suspicion, and it probably should. The moment a website suggests it can place you on Forbes.com – a title most founders would love on their press page – a reasonable person starts asking what's really being sold, who's behind it, and whether the outcome is anything the seller can actually control.
That skepticism is healthy because earned media is one of the hardest things to promise. Unlike an ad, a genuine editorial placement depends on an editor saying yes, and no agency can sign that decision on a publication's behalf. So when a company builds an entire offer around Forbes features, the gap between what's advertised and what's deliverable is exactly where buyers get burned.
Getonforbes.com sits squarely in that category, which is why we treated this as a verification exercise. The PR service claims to be specialized in getting companies and founders covered on “one of the largest business publications on the planet”.
After multiple requests by our readers, we decided to take a closer look at getonforbes.com – examining who’s behind this company, how they do it, and if they are trustworthy.
We started where any cautious buyer would, with the public website and the offer as it's presented to a cold visitor.
From there we ran independent background research on the founders and the business, looking for a footprint that existed outside the company's own marketing. We then contacted the company directly, explained that we were assessing its legitimacy, and requested an interview along with evidence.
The founders agreed to answer questions on process, guarantees, and vetting, and they supplied article examples and supporting materials. They also connected us with three past clients for limited verification.
Two things are worth flagging up front. First, a meaningful share of what you'll read in the process and guarantee sections comes directly from the company, and we've labelled it that way rather than presenting it as established fact. Second, our verification is partial – we confirmed specific, checkable things, but we did not audit the company's books, its full client list, or every claim on its site – which, of course, wouldn’t be possible for any other company either.
Based on a review of the public website, the core offer is narrow and clearly stated. getonforbes.com positions itself as a specialist service that helps vetted companies secure coverage on Forbes.com, rather than a general PR agency that does a bit of everything.
That specificity is itself noteworthy. Broad "we do all your PR" pitches are easy to make and hard to hold accountable, whereas a single-outcome promise is at least falsifiable – either the feature appears or it doesn't.
The site presents two distinct layers, and it's worth keeping them separate. One is the paid service: feature placement support for companies the firm chooses to take on, with the angle, the story, and the pitching handled on the client's behalf. The other is a library of educational and how-to content about getting featured in Forbes and similar publications, which functions partly as marketing and partly as genuine reference material.
The marketing claims that frame the value proposition lean on experience and volume – combined media-relations experience stretching across more than 17 years, hundreds of client features since 2018, and testimonials emphasizing speed and communication. The language deliberately favors "organic" or earned-style features over anything that sounds like a paid workaround.
Those are the company's framings, and on the website they sit as assertions rather than proof. The educational layer does suggest more substance than a single thin sales page, but content depth tells you a firm can write – not that it can deliver placements. For that, we had to look further.
This section reflects what the founders told us in the interview, not facts we independently confirmed. We're relaying their account of how an engagement runs, and we'd encourage any buyer to ask for the same explanation in writing.
According to the founders, the process begins with discovery – a conversation to understand the business, what makes it genuinely newsworthy, and whether there's a credible angle an editor might actually care about. They describe this as the stage where a lot of prospects get filtered out, because not every company has a story that earns coverage on merit.
If there's a fit, the engagement moves into a contract and deposit structure, after which the team develops the story angle and begins pitching. The founders frame the writing and positioning work as the part they control most directly, and the editorial decision as the part they don't.
That last distinction is the one we paid closest attention to. In their telling, getonforbes.com can shape the angle, prepare the materials, and put the pitch in front of the right people, but it cannot force a publication to run a piece, and it doesn't claim to. A money-back guarantee, which we'll come to shortly, is how they say they absorb that risk for the client.
It's a coherent account, and it lines up with how earned media actually works.
Here the independent research mattered most, because anonymity is the single biggest red flag in this category. Faceless placement sites are common, and they're hard to hold to anything. getonforbes.com is not one of them.
Independently, and consistent with the company's own site, the business is run by two named founders: Simon Moser and Navid Ladani. The fact that real people attach their names to the operation is a positive – it means there's someone to be accountable.
Our background research also surfaced a wider professional footprint, particularly around Moser, connected to the marketing firm PolyGrowth and to a PR operation referred to as CTRL PR.
A quick search of the founders shows that Moser has been extensively publishing articles around public relations, AI visiblity, and communications both on his in-house blog as well as on credible third-party media outlets, including TheNextWeb and Entrepreneur.com since 2018. Our online search also showed that he himself was featured in a Forbes article in 2021. Additionally, his Linkedin profile also lists him as the Head of Communications for MAIV, a fintech startup, and owner of iRefurbished, a brand selling refurbished Apple products.
Our search on Ladani also yielded extensive articles in third party publications, although his focus seems to be more centered around finance and tech. He is a contributing author at International Business Times as well as Benzinga, with dozens of live articles published in these media.
We could not find any negative articles about either of the founders or their respective companies.
The founders describe a money-back guarantee tied to the placement outcome – broadly, if the promised feature doesn't materialize, the client isn't left paying for a result that never arrived. That structure shifts at least some of the risk onto the firm rather than the buyer. A company genuinely confident in its process has more reason to offer that kind of term than one that isn't.
That said, a guarantee is only as good as its fine print. The exact conditions, timelines, definitions of a qualifying placement, and refund mechanics are precisely the details a cautious buyer should get in writing before paying anything. We're reporting that a guarantee exists as described; we're not vouching for how it plays out in a dispute, which we had no way to test.
The vetting story is the more telling half. The founders say they actively turn companies away – businesses without a legitimate angle, or those expecting coverage they don't think is earnable. Selectivity of that kind is hard to fake convincingly, and it fits the rest of the model: a firm that filters at the door has a plausible reason to offer a guarantee behind it, because it's only taking on work it believes it can deliver.
Whether the vetting is as rigorous in practice as it is in description, we can't independently confirm. But as a stated posture, turning prospects down is more consistent with a real specialist than with a volume funnel that accepts anyone with a credit card.
To move past assertions, the company supplied article examples and additional supporting materials – specific pieces it pointed to as the kind of coverage it produces.
What we did with that is narrow and concrete: we checked whether the cited articles actually exist on Forbes.com. They did. The pieces we were pointed to were real, live, and hosted where the company said they'd be.
In total, getonforbes.com shared 20 live articles with us, covering a multitude of companies across various industries between 2020 and 2026. We are allowed to share the following four article links in this review:
This section summarizes the modus operandi of getonforbes.com. To learn about this process, we asked the founders directly as part of our interview.
First, we asked for a step by step description of how an engagement usually goes.
We received the following response by Moser:
“In the first step of any collaboration, we’d like to learn more about our client’s business, why they want to get featured on Forbes, and what newsworthy angles they bring to the table. Once we have all the details, we proceed with a brief vetting process to make sure that the client is a good fit both for us and for the Forbes audience.”
These statements appear to be in line with what the company claims on its website.
“If we get the green light, the next step is to sign a mutual agreement outlining the exact deliverables and responsibilities. At this point, we also require a 50% deposit, with the remaining half being charged after successful publication of the article. With that squared away, we now determine the precise angles we’re going to pitch to our contacts at the outlet in tandem with the client. As soon as we iron out the details, our team will start pitching Forbes journalists and try to secure an article for the client.”
This provides a crucial insight into the process, as payment is split up based on success to distribute the risk evenly. Next, we asked getonforbes.com for details about their vetting process and guarantee. Moser responded:
“We’re looking for real businesses with real people, proven track records, and either unique insights, an interesting story, or solid news. To ensure this, we developed our own vetting process based on years of experience. We cannot work with any businesses that have negative PR or pending lawsuits, that appear shady in any way, shape, or form, or work in industries such as adult content and igaming. As of 2026, most of our clients are AI and tech companies, as well as e-commerce brands, lifestyle products, and services.”
“About our guarantee, once we are confident that the client is a solid fit for Forbes, we sign a contract that outlines the exact deliverables, what we can control and what we cannot control, as well as the expected timeline. Every client gets a full money-back guarantee in case their article is not published within the specified time frame. Thanks to our extensive vetting procedure, however, this rarely happens.”
Lastly, we asked why most of their articles appear to be published by Forbes contributors rather than Forbes staff reporters.
Comments by Moser:
“Forbes is highly successful in the modern media area due to an incredibly large number of articles that get published on all kinds of topics, not just business and finance, but also lifestyle, fashion, beauty, travel, and many other sectors. To achieve the sheer volume of articles, they use a contributor system that relies on experts in various fields (often entrepreneurs or specialists but sometimes also regular journalists) to write and publish articles about their field of expertise.”
“In contrast, Forbes staff writers often cover a substantially smaller volume of articles. They focus on the creme de la creme of news - huge companies, interviews with ultra well-known people, investigative reporting. The vast majority of businesses, over 99 percent, have no realistic path to ever get featured by a staff reporter – they simply don’t have the bandwidth to care about anything other than the most important news. And that’s ok.”
“There appears to be a notion that articles by contributors are a total waste of time and resources. We didn’t find that true at all. As of 2026, these contributors are heavily vetted by Forbes, and they also get paid for publishing articles. Secondly, they are often true experts in their field – unlike some staff reporters. And finally, many contributors regularly rake in tens of thousands of views on their articles. I will concede that the writing quality of contributors can be a mixed bag, but we’ve noticed that improve over the years.”
Note: these statements were made by the founders and could not be verified independently.
The strongest evidence came from the part the company couldn't fully script: it connected us with three past clients and let us speak with them.
The three were a dropshipping platform based in Florida, a cybersecurity company in Berlin, and a stationery distributor in Texas. The spread itself is worth noting – different industries, different countries, different company profiles, which is harder to stage than three lookalike references in the same niche. Additionally, all companies had a solid track record in their fields, ranging from 30 to 100+ employees.
All three declined to be named publicly, which is a real limitation. Anonymous references are weaker than on-the-record ones, and a skeptical reader is entitled to discount them accordingly. What we could do, in each case, was verify that the Forbes article associated with the client genuinely existed on Forbes.com. It did, for all three.
The dropshipping company confirmed that they had been working with getonforbes.com and PolyGrowth since early 2025 and have since entered a long-term engagement with the firm that is still running as of June 2026. The cybersecurity firm stated that they hired getonforbes.com for a one-time article feature in 2025, which was completed within 4 weeks and delivered as promised. The owners of the stationery company confirmed an engagement not just for their stationery brand but also for another unrelated business, with the two articles appearing in 2024 and 2025.
Putting the pieces together, getonforbes.com looks like a real, operating, niche PR service.
The reasons are cumulative. The founders are named and independently traceable, with a genuine adjacent footprint in PR. The process the company describes is internally coherent and honest about what it can't control. The guarantee and vetting posture fit a firm that filters its clients. The supplied article examples were real and extensive. And three past clients, across three industries and three countries, were willing to speak and were each tied to a Forbes piece we could confirm exists.
Whatever you decide here, we recommend to always ask to see the proof, read the guarantee closely, and make sure you understand the process before you sign.
