diff --git a/stacks-signer/src/stacks_client.rs b/stacks-signer/src/stacks_client.rs
index ec1a4bc037..f555a3f998 100644
--- a/stacks-signer/src/stacks_client.rs
+++ b/stacks-signer/src/stacks_client.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ use stacks_common::{debug, types::chainstate::StacksPrivateKey, warn};
 
 use crate::config::Config;
 
-const SLOTS_PER_USER: u32 = 10;
+/// Temporary placeholder for the number of slots allocated to a stacker-db writer. This will be retrieved from the stacker-db instance in the future
+/// See: https://github.com/stacks-network/stacks-blockchain/issues/3921
+/// Is equal to the number of message types
+pub const SLOTS_PER_USER: u32 = 10;
 
 #[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
 /// Client error type
diff --git a/stacks-signer/src/utils.rs b/stacks-signer/src/utils.rs
index c70881ce1b..e45ac56b59 100644
--- a/stacks-signer/src/utils.rs
+++ b/stacks-signer/src/utils.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ use stacks_common::{
 };
 use wsts::Scalar;
 
+use crate::stacks_client::SLOTS_PER_USER;
+
 /// Helper function for building a signer config for each provided signer private key
 pub fn build_signer_config_tomls(
     signer_stacks_private_keys: &[StacksPrivateKey],
@@ -90,7 +92,8 @@ pub fn build_stackerdb_contract(signer_stacks_addresses: &[StacksAddress]) -> St
         stackerdb_contract += "                {\n";
         stackerdb_contract +=
             format!("                    signer: '{},\n", signer_stacks_address).as_str();
-        stackerdb_contract += format!("                    num-slots: u{}\n", 10).as_str(); // We only have 10 Message Types
+        stackerdb_contract +=
+            format!("                    num-slots: u{}\n", SLOTS_PER_USER).as_str();
         stackerdb_contract += "                }\n";
     }
     stackerdb_contract += "                )))\n";