A law firm came to us doing everything right and still losing money.
8 tools. $10,000 a month. None of them talked to each other.
1 in 5 clients dropped out during intake. Not because the firm was bad, but because follow-up depended on somebody remembering.
We replaced the stack with one system.
It organises and flags case evidence. An attorney reviews and approves it. Follow-up runs on its own. Every case lives in one place.
No file moves forward on the system's say-so. A person signs off. That is not a limitation we worked around. It is how it was built.
Nine months later:
$1.6M of the firm's own revenue recovered from cases previously written off.
$7,000 a month back in tool costs.
The capacity of 4 attorneys and a paralegal, without hiring.
The 20% drop-off gone.
The firm did not get bigger. It stopped needing people to remember things.
The judgment stayed exactly where it belongs.
Unpopular opinion: I love using AI but I won’t use it for copywriting.
I know the model can be trained to write better if given proper context. I noticed my actually marketing activities decreased due to spending time on training the AI. Now I go back to old fashion and it works just fine.
I realized not everything needs AI to be involved. Marketing by shaking hands , word mouth, and organic content still works.
@anah_sahh It’s so much fun for the software engineers and builders.
All the ideas I had delayed to execute , now I can build them out like clock work. Even build systems to make my workflow and productivity better.
Best thing I had done for the last couple of months :
Instead of spending $$$ on new leads which is a shot in the dark.
I revived my dead leads that led to $10k additional close deals.
Just because someone told you no back then doesn’t mean it’s never.
Follow up is a long game but it works.
This should be desired outcome for every business owner out there.
Have a software system that handles the execution of the day to day tasks.
The human labor focuses on tasks such as creativity, writing , and strategy.
in 2027, every successful agency will look like this:
- a SaaS handling 90% of client deliverables automatically
- human experts focusing only on strategy, customization, and complex problem-solving
clients will pay $199/month for AI-powered execution and then $10K+ for upsell strategic consulting when they need 1:1 advisory
the agencies building this hybrid model today will own entire markets tomorrow... the ones clinging to pure human labor will be competing on price until they disappear
we're watching the birth of a completely new industry structure where software does the work and humans do the thinking
@HeyAliux This gonna scare some ppl, but I literally go talk to real people in person and ask them to check out my app. That includes conferences , networking, and random conversations with my desired ICP. And no I don’t make it awkward, talk, demo, have them sign up on the spot.
@zaneccampbell Definitely disappointed I had tons of routines I needed to run today that impacts my outreach efforts. Hopefully they resolve this issue.
A law firm came to us doing everything right and still losing money.
8 tools. $10,000 a month. None of them talked to each other.
1 in 5 clients dropped out during intake. Not because the firm was bad, but because follow-up depended on somebody remembering.
We replaced the stack with one system.
It organises and flags case evidence. An attorney reviews and approves it. Follow-up runs on its own. Every case lives in one place.
No file moves forward on the system's say-so. A person signs off. That is not a limitation we worked around. It is how it was built.
Nine months later:
$1.6M of the firm's own revenue recovered from cases previously written off.
$7,000 a month back in tool costs.
The capacity of 4 attorneys and a paralegal, without hiring.
The 20% drop-off gone.
The firm did not get bigger. It stopped needing people to remember things.
The judgment stayed exactly where it belongs.
Pick one hour this week.
Pull every proposal from the last 12 months that never got a yes or a no.
Do not open the CRM “closed-lost” report and call it done. That report mixes real nos with people who stalled, changed jobs, or got busy.
For each one, write three lines:
Still have the problem? Yes / no / unknown.
Why it went quiet.
Next move, or archive for real.
You will find two piles. One is dead. One is inventory with no owner.
That second pile is where the money already is.
Assign it to someone before you buy another lead.
Every unanswered proposal costs you three ways.
The revenue that never landed.
The acquisition spend you already paid.
And the new leads you buy to replace what was already sitting in your own records.
That is the cost of a quote nobody owns.
The thing I keep hearing from consultancies:
We need more leads.
Okay. What were last year's unanswered proposals actually worth?
Most cannot tell me in a minute.
Not because the number is small. Because nobody has ever been paid to know it.