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When your next client asks AI for a lawyer, does it say your name?

AI growth, without the AI slop.

Most firms have never checked. We measure it — whether ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers name you — then publish the work that moves it. Every asset is written against your state’s advertising rules, with the judgment left to you.

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WATCH IT HAPPEN

This is the room you’re not in.

Your prospect stopped typing “personal injury lawyer Phoenix.” They describe what happened to them and ask what to do about it. The answer names three firms and they never reach a search results page. Here is one, verbatim.

Prompt

“I was rear-ended in Phoenix and my back still hurts three months later. Which lawyer should I call?”

Response

For a delayed-onset injury like this in the Phoenix area, a few firms come up consistently. Callahan & Reyes handle a high volume of rear-end collision claims and publish detailed guidance on delayed symptom documentation. Whitmore Injury Law focus specifically on soft-tissue and spinal cases in Maricopa County. The Delgado Firm are frequently referenced for cases where treatment began well after the accident date…

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE. FIRM NAMES ARE FICTIONAL.

3
firms named
0
of them is yours
0
clicks to Google
THE VOCABULARY

AEO for law firms, in one paragraph.

Answer Engine Optimization. Also called GEO — Generative Engine Optimization. Same discipline, two acronyms, and the industry hasn’t settled which one sticks.

SEO got you onto a page of ten blue links. AEO gets you inside the answer that replaced it. The unit of work changes: not a page describing your services, but a passage answering one specific question so completely that a machine will lift it and attach your name. Structure, jurisdiction, and provable expertise now do the work backlinks used to.

SEOAEO / GEO
OptimizesA page’s rankAn answer’s sources
Wins onAuthority + keywordsSpecificity + extractability
You measurePosition 1–10Citation Share, 0–100%
Competitor setWhoever ranksWhoever gets quoted
Optimizes
SEO

A page’s rank

AEO/GEO

An answer’s sources

Wins on
SEO

Authority + keywords

AEO/GEO

Specificity + extractability

You measure
SEO

Position 1–10

AEO/GEO

Citation Share, 0–100%

Competitor set
SEO

Whoever ranks

AEO/GEO

Whoever gets quoted

THE NUMBERS

The click you were optimizing for is disappearing.

MOST

of legal searches now end without a click to any website. The answer arrives before the results page does.

MANY

legal queries trigger a Google AI Overview — among the highest rates of any industry.

MOST

AI citations come from pages outside Google’s top ten. Ranking first does not mean being cited.

Rankings and citations are now two separate scoreboards. You are almost certainly watching only one of them.

THE NUMBER NOBODY IS MEASURING

Citation Share.

Rankings tell you where you sit on a page of ten blue links. They tell you nothing about whether an AI names you in an answer that lists three.

Citation Share — of the high-intent questions prospective clients ask AI assistants in your market, the percentage of answers that name your firm.

Two firms can rank identically on Google and have completely different Citation Share, because the engines are answering questions rather than matching keywords. A page that describes your services ranks. A page that answers the question gets quoted.

We report brand mentions and linked citations as two separate numbers. They behave differently, and adding them together is the easiest way to make a figure look better than it is.

Engines
AI answer engines
Questions
Built from your market
Conditions
logged out, geo-set
Reported
mean + spread
Pages scored
content pages only — boilerplate excluded
Methodology
published
THE AUTOPSY

The marketing agency model is dead.

In most cases it has been for a while. Nobody told the invoices.

We spent twenty years inside it — Thomson Reuters (FindLaw, Westlaw, Super Lawyers) and Agency 310. We know who the agencies are, what they charge, what they actually deliver, and precisely where it falls through the cracks. GrowthAgents wasn’t built by people guessing at this market. It was built by the people who used to sell to you.

TWENTY YEARS INSIDE
Thomson Reuters
FindLaw · Westlaw · Super Lawyers
Agency 310
A law-firm agency
Both sides of the invoice

We know what they charge. We know what they deliver. We know exactly where the gap is.

Cause of death 01

Bloated labor & overhead

Your retainer funds an org chart that eats the budget before the work begins.

Cause of death 02

Selling deliverables, not outcomes

An activity quota that hides the only question that matters: what did it produce?

Cause of death 03

Locked into lengthy contracts

Twelve-month agreements exist because the results wouldn’t survive a monthly decision.

Causes 04–08

Five more ways the retainer model quietly fails a law firm.

Read the full autopsy →
CAUSE OF DEATH 01

Bloated labor & overhead

Your retainer funds an org chart: account coordinators, project managers, a strategist you met once, and the office they all sit in. The work you actually receive is what’s left over after payroll.

How GrowthAgents kills it

A team of agents has no payroll, no office, and no meetings to bill you for. Your invoice buys production and proof — nothing else exists to fund.

Their retainer
11 salaries deep
Your invoice
the work / the proof / (nothing else) — 0 salaries deep
CAUSE OF DEATH 02

Selling deliverables, not outcomes

“Twelve posts, eight social updates, one report.” That’s an activity quota, not a result. Deliverables are how the model hides the only question that matters: what did any of it produce?

How GrowthAgents kills it

Every asset reports its own numbers from your own Search Console — impressions, clicks, position, per page, not in aggregate. You don’t count our deliverables. You read the page’s own results.

Activity report

12 posts · 8 updates · 1 report

…so what?
Per-page results
/case-worth1,240 impr · 68 clicks · pos 4.2
/rear-end-injury860 impr · 41 clicks · pos 6.1
li·carousel2,100 impr · 95 clicks · pos 3.8
YOUR SEARCH CONSOLEper URL, not a bucket
CAUSE OF DEATH 03

Locked into lengthy contracts

Twelve-month agreements exist because the results wouldn’t survive a monthly decision. The lock-in is the retention strategy.

How GrowthAgents kills it

Month to month. Cancel anytime. The product re-earns your invoice every thirty days, with your own Search Console numbers to prove it did. Confidence doesn’t need a signature page.

Their terms
×12 mo
Our terms
THIS MONTH, earned.

renew? your call. cancel anytime.

TWO WAYS IN

Keep Your Agency. Or Don’t.
You Win Either Way.

We built this to be additive, not a rip-and-replace. Pick your door.

I ALREADY HAVE AN AGENCY

Keep your agency. Grow your AI presence.

A line item, not a replacement.

If your agency is doing right by you, keep them — we’re not going to pretend otherwise. GrowthAgents runs the AEO layer most of them don’t have, at a price that fits alongside a retainer rather than instead of it. Skeptical about how it compares? Run both for sixty days. Ours reports per asset. Decide whose numbers you can actually read.

I DON’T HAVE AN AGENCY

Zero friction. You’re in control.

Self-serve. Month to month. No call required.

No sales call, no scoping document, no twelve-month signature page. Tell us your site and your practice areas and we’ll have you live this week. Month to month — you can stop at the end of any month, and everything published stays yours.

SHARED INTELLIGENCE LAYER

One brain. A team of agents.

Every agent reads from and writes to the same memory. What one learns, the rest inherit — and every asset carries what compliance, attribution, and the data loop found on it.

Most tools in this category generate content and stop. Every agent here reports what its output actually did — which passages got quoted, which pages got cited, how their impressions and clicks moved — and that result trains the next one. The system doesn’t get generically better. It gets better at your market, in your jurisdiction, every month you run it.

01 / COMPLIANCE

Closest to the core. Every asset is checked against it; today the flag is advisory, not a block.

02 / ATTRIBUTION

Reads your own Search Console and Analytics for what each asset actually did.

03 / DATA INTELLIGENCE

Signal from the outer loop flows back into the core.

THE TEAM

A team of agents. One memory.

A

Athena

Content

Writes the content your authority is built on — compliance-checked before it exists.

Writes backnew pages published, by practice area
A

Atlas

Optimization

Finds the pages already earning attention and rewrites them into ones that convert.

Writes backwhich rewritten pages moved
I

Iris

Distribution

Writes for the platform it’s posting to — LinkedIn isn’t Instagram, and Iris knows it.

Writes backdistribution reach, by profile
N

Nero

Reputation

Watches your reviews and answers in your voice, on your terms.

Writes backreview sentiment & reply status
A

Apollo

Data

Measures where AI answers name you, and feeds what it learns back to the others.

Writes backAI visibility score, by market

The Shared Brain

What any one of them learns, the rest inherit.

See how it connects ↑
THE PART MOST AI TOOLS IGNORE

We check. You decide.

An AI that rewrites your pages for “answer-first” formatting will happily write a performance guarantee your state prohibits, or invent a citation. For a licensed professional that isn’t a content problem — it’s your license.

So every asset is checked against a jurisdiction rule set we compiled and published: required disclaimers, unqualified superlatives, prior-result claims, specialization language, responsible-attorney identification. Today that check is advisory — it surfaces the flag and the reason next to the asset, it does not block publication, and our rule set is research we compiled, not counsel’s opinion. We publish which jurisdictions we’ve fully verified and which we haven’t.

Rewrites of pages you already published are delivered to you for review before they go live. On existing pages you have context we don’t, so that call is yours.

// WHAT WE WON’T TELL YOU

We won’t tell you our output is certified compliant with your bar’s rules. Under ABA Formal Opinion 512 and Model Rule 5.3 the duty is yours and no vendor can take it — so we don’t claim to. We check, we flag what we found and why, and the judgment about what publishes under your name stays where it belongs.

If a vendor tells you their AI output is compliant, ask who carries it when a grievance lands.

ATTRIBUTION

Which page is actually working.

Ask your current agency which page produced anything last month. You’ll get thirty pages of activity and no per-page numbers. We connect your own Google Search Console and Analytics, so every page we publish reports its own impressions, clicks and ranking — the specific URL, not a channel bucket.

Every asset carries an identifier

Tagged the moment it’s created, so its performance is reported against that specific page rather than lumped into a channel total.

Your data, your accounts

We read from your own Search Console and Analytics properties. Nothing depends on a tracking script we control, and the history stays yours.

What we can’t tell you yet

We cannot currently trace a signed matter back to the page that produced it. That needs conversion tracking we haven’t shipped. We’ll say so until we have.

Read more

How we define per-page performance, and what the published methodology covers.

Read the full methodology →
SIDE BY SIDE

Three ways to do this. One of them shows its work.

GrowthAgentsTraditional agencyOther AEO tools
ContractMonth to month, cancel anytime6–12 monthsAnnual, usually
Monthly cost$999 – $2,879A monthly retainerA subscription
State bar rule checkEvery asset, flagged with the reasonRarelyNo
Automated publishingOptional — your call, per assetNoYes, with no gate
Per-page performance reportingYes, from your own Search ConsoleNoNo
Methodology publishedYes, in full, including limitsNo“Proprietary”
Who carries the compliance dutyYou. We say so out loud.UnstatedClaims “compliant”
GAAgencyAEO tools
ContractMonth to month6–12 moAnnual
Monthly cost$999–$2,879A retainerA subscription
Bar rule check✓ every assetRarely✗
Auto publishOptional✗✓ no gate
Per-page reporting✓✗✗
Methodology public✓ in full✗“Proprietary”
Compliance dutyYours, statedUnstatedClaims “compliant”
Contract
GrowthAgentsMonth to month, cancel anytime
Traditional agency6–12 months
Other AEO toolsAnnual, usually
Monthly cost
GrowthAgents$999 – $2,879
Traditional agencyA monthly retainer
Other AEO toolsA subscription
State bar rule check
GrowthAgentsEvery asset, flagged with the reason
Traditional agencyRarely
Other AEO toolsNo
Automated publishing
GrowthAgentsOptional — your call, per asset
Traditional agencyNo
Other AEO toolsYes, with no gate
Per-page performance reporting
GrowthAgentsYes, from your own Search Console
Traditional agencyNo
Other AEO toolsNo
Methodology published
GrowthAgentsYes, in full, including limits
Traditional agencyNo
Other AEO tools“Proprietary”
Who carries the compliance duty
GrowthAgentsYou. We say so out loud.
Traditional agencyUnstated
Other AEO toolsClaims “compliant”
THE MATH YOUR AGENCY WON’T DO

Less than your retainer. Look at what it buys.

The going rate in legal marketing is a handful of blog posts and a cheap link, written to a national template, published without a compliance check, and reported at the channel level.

Practice
$999/mo
  • 8 assets a month
  • Automated publishing with advisory compliance flags
  • Jurisdiction rule check before delivery
  • Per-page reporting, from your own Search Console
  • Social distribution + review management
  • Guided onboarding
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Command
$2,879/mo
  • 30 assets a month
  • Everything in Authority
  • Multi-practice and multi-location
Start with the free scan

// WHY WE CAP THE VOLUME.We could publish forty assets a month. Sites that do get flagged for scaled content abuse, and we’re not putting your domain at risk to make a number on a pricing page look bigger. Every asset is scored on our published rubric before it counts toward your allotment — anything that fails doesn’t ship and doesn’t count.

// WHAT’S NOT ON THE INVOICE.We don’t run your Google Ads, redesign your site, host it, or answer your phones. We say so before you ask.

SAY THE UNCOMFORTABLE THING FIRST

We’re the only ones who won’t promise you cases.

Every other platform in this category leads with a number — more cases, more leads, a percentage lift. We don’t publish one, for a reason you already know: your state bar prohibits you from promising outcomes. If a marketing vendor is comfortable making a claim you’d be sanctioned for repeating, it’s worth asking what else they’re comfortable with.

We’re also new, and we’d rather you hear that from us. We don’t have a decade of case studies. What we have is a measurement you can verify yourself in two minutes, and a methodology published in full.

WHAT EVERYONE ELSE LEADS WITH
“3x more signed cases”
“+240% qualified leads”
“Guaranteed page-one rankings”

WHAT WE PUBLISH INSTEAD

A measurement you can run yourself in two minutes, and a methodology with its limits printed on it.

Check it yourself

Ask an AI assistant for a lawyer in your practice and city, right now, before you talk to us. The free scan does the same kind of check across your practice areas and shows you the answer.

The guarantee

A 90-day guarantee, provided by Agency 310. It is not a guarantee of rankings, cases, or clients. Read it.

The method is public

Our AEO scoring rubric and the full Citation Share methodology — including its limitations — are published. Compare that to “proprietary.”

Nothing is locked in

Month to month. Stop at the end of any month. Everything published stays on your site and stays yours.

BEFORE YOU ASK

The questions we get on every call.

The platform handles content, social and reputation management on its own. If you want a human running the rest — hosting and maintaining your site, managing PPC, the things we deliberately don’t do — we partnered with Agency 310, an AI-first agency with 20+ years in legal marketing. They become your point of contact and run on the GrowthAgents platform underneath. One invoice, lower cost than a traditional full-service retainer, and the same per-page reporting. We reduce friction at every point, including this one.

You choose whether an asset publishes automatically. Rewrites of pages you already published come to you first — on an existing page you have context we don’t, so that call is yours.

We check every asset against your jurisdiction’s rule set and flag anything that trips it, with the reason attached. We do not certify it as compliant, and you should be wary of any vendor that does — under Model Rule 5.3 and ABA Formal Opinion 512 the duty is yours and can’t be transferred. We do the checking. You keep the judgment.

It stays on your site and it’s yours. No clawback, no license that expires, no “managed content” that disappears with the subscription. Stop at the end of any month; the work you paid for stays published.

Three things a chat window doesn’t do: it doesn’t check your state’s advertising rules, it doesn’t tag what it wrote and report back what that asset actually produced, and it doesn’t know what got cited last month so it can write differently this month. The writing is the cheap part. The loop around it is the product.

Indexing and re-crawl timelines aren’t ours to control, so we won’t quote you one. What we will do is re-measure and show you the movement — including when there isn’t any. Your first scan is the baseline.

Yes — CPAs and accounting firms, real estate brokerages, HR and recruiting. The compliance layer is jurisdiction-specific and law is where it’s strictest, which is why we built there first.

TWO MINUTES

Find out whether AI names your firm.

We run high-intent questions from your market across AI answers, and show you where you appear and where a competitor does instead. Then we rewrite your weakest page live so you can see the work.

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