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AI Visibility Audit.
Find out if you're the firm AI names
— and what it would take to be.

When a client asks an assistant for a lawyer, are you the name it gives — or invisible while a competitor gets introduced? The audit shows exactly where your firm stands across the six AI surfaces, per engine, and the specific moves that would put you in the answer. Fixed price, in about two weeks.

Why this matters now

Know whether you're in the answer — before you spend a dollar to change it.

The AI Visibility Audit is the right way to start. It gives you a documented baseline of AI citation across 50+ buyer-intent prompts tuned to your practice mix. You walk away with a clear picture of where you stand vs. competitors, the 2–3 highest-leverage moves, and a 90-day plan — whether or not you continue with Legal Torch.

Most firms that run the audit choose to engage; some don't, and that's fine. Either way the audit pays for itself in clarity. We'd rather have firms make an informed decision than sign a retainer they're unsure about.

The point of a fixed-scope diagnostic is to make the first decision an informed one: you see exactly where you stand across the AI engines, how you compare to the firms you actually lose to, and what would move the needle — before you weigh any longer engagement.

What's included

What's in the audit.

Scoped to firm size. $3,000–$5,000. Delivered within 10 business days of intake. The audit produces the strategy your visibility work runs on — five foundation artifacts, plus the diagnostics below.

Positioning statement
What your firm is, who it serves, and why an AI assistant should name it — the strategy every later step runs on.
Niche-cell ICP
The practice × community/language × metro cell your firm can realistically own.
Prompt-universe map
The real questions clients ask an assistant, mapped for your cell.
Entity & message spec
Your firm and each named attorney, specified for consistency across your site, Google Business Profile, and the legal directories.
Differentiation read
Where you stand against the firms AI already names, and the gap to close — with a six-surface baseline so progress is measured, not asserted.
Live prompt simulation
50+ buyer-intent prompts run against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Claude. Citation logged per engine.
Attorney-level scoring
Each named attorney scored on visibility across the engines. Identifies the gap between firm-level and attorney-level citation.
Competitor comparison
Top 3 firms in your practice + region scored on the same prompt set. Direct head-to-head.
Citation source map
Where AI engines are pulling from (and where they're not). The actual list of sources to target.
Compliance flag review
Every public-facing claim on your existing site reviewed against ABA Rule 7.1 and your state-bar rules. Flags returned with revision suggestions.
90-day quick-win plan
The 2–3 highest-leverage moves to lift citations within 90 days, prioritised and sequenced.
60-minute walkthrough
Founder-led walkthrough of every finding, every recommendation. Recorded for your team.

Is it worth it? — illustrative, validate against your own numbers

Do the math on your own cases.

We can’t promise you a return, and we won’t. What we can do is make the arithmetic yours to run: you know what one signed matter is worth to your firm and what you spend to win one today. Put the cost of being the named answer next to those two numbers and the decision usually makes itself.

What one signed matter is worth (illustrative industry ranges — use your own)

~$2,500–3,000+
Personal injury — varies widely with case severity
~$2,000–7,000
Criminal defense
~$500–2,000
Family law
Five figures
Immigration — EB-5 and complex business matters

What you pay to win one client today. Client acquisition in law is already expensive and getting more so: a single SEO-sourced lead runs roughly $456 on average, a personal-injury lead through Google Ads about $442, and some legal keywords now cost $1,000+ per click — and a click is not a client. (Illustrative 2026 legal-marketing / PPC figures; validate against your own ad and intake data.)

The break-even, in your own numbers. The AI Visibility Audit is a one-time fixed fee ($3,000–$5,000, scoped to your firm). If it leads to an ongoing engagement, that’s a monthly retainer priced to your baseline. So the real question is simple: if being the named answer in your niche brings in even a small number of signed matters a year, does it cover its cost? Run it with your figures — if a signed matter is worth $12,000 to you, a retainer at $3,000/month ($36,000/year) is covered by roughly three matters a year; if your matters are worth less you’ll need more, and if they’re worth more — as immigration or complex matters often are — you’ll need fewer. You know which end of that range you’re on. Set it against paying $1,000+ for a single click that may never sign, and the case for owning the answer instead of renting clicks tends to look better the longer you run it.

What we’re claiming — and what we’re not. We measure and work to improve your visibility: whether the AI engines name your firm when your future clients ask. We do not, and cannot, guarantee leads, signed clients, or revenue — AI answers vary by engine, time, and phrasing, and no honest agency can promise an outcome (Cal. RPC 7.1). What we can promise is that the audit tells you whether the opportunity is real for your practice before you commit to anything, and you keep the analysis either way.

See where you stand — the AI Visibility Audit →

How an engagement runs

How the audit runs.

Day 1: Kickoff form. You share basics about the firm, target practice areas, target geography, current marketing stack.

Days 2–7: We run the prompt simulation, score attorneys and competitors, map citation sources.

Days 8–10: Compliance review and 90-day plan drafting. Final deliverable assembled.

Day ~10: 60-minute walkthrough call. Recording shared with your team. Optional: continue into a retainer.

What done looks like: the five foundation artifacts are accepted by your firm; a six-surface visibility baseline is recorded and every drafted claim has passed our compliance screen; and your firm signs off on the positioning statement and the prompt map.

Deploying that entity spec across your site, Google Business Profile, and the legal directories that feed AI answers (Avvo, Justia, Martindale) is month-one work in the engagement that follows — the audit specifies it, the retainer deploys it.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask before signing.

The audit cost is credited toward your first month of retainer. So in effect, the diagnostic costs nothing if you continue.
You keep the deliverable. Many firms execute the 90-day plan internally and don't need a retainer. That's a fine outcome — we'd rather have aligned, informed clients than unhappy retainers.
Yes. The base audit covers up to 2 practice areas. Additional practice areas are $750 each — added scope, same depth.
The prompt simulation runs across the six surfaces we report as a panel — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Claude — so the baseline reflects the real spread rather than a single engine.
A traditional SEO audit checks how Google ranks your pages. This measures whether AI assistants name your firm when someone asks for a lawyer — a different question, with different signals (entity, citations, compliance) — and it scores each named attorney, not just the domain.
No. Legal Torch is not a law firm; the review is a marketing-content screen that flags advertising-rule risks in your public-facing copy for your attorneys to weigh. It's a useful starting point for your own compliance review, not a substitute for it.
Just the kickoff form on day one — the basics about your firm, target practice areas, geography, and current marketing stack. We run everything else; your next real time commitment is the 60-minute walkthrough at the end.

Ready when you are

Find out how AI search sees your firm.

Free AI Visibility Audit. 60 seconds. See your citation gap before your competitors do.

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