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Engine 01 — Demand

The Growth Engine.

A modern demand stack that captures clients across Google, AI answer engines, paid media, and local search — and routes them into qualification with full attribution back to case value. Built and owned by Bob.

  • Answer-engine optimization — appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews when prospects ask real legal questions
  • AI-accelerated SEO — content production, technical SEO, and authority-building tuned to how AI models cite sources
  • Paid media — Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Performance Max, with bidding tuned to signed-case value rather than form fills
  • Local & map-pack dominance — Google Business Profile, review pipelines, geo-targeted authority
  • Practice-area content engine — 12–15 substantive articles/month, structured for AI citation
  • Attribution architecture — every dollar of spend traceable to a signed retainer and a case value
  • Lead scoring & routing — qualified leads trigger ops workflows; tire-kickers get filtered out
Owned by Bob Clary — 14× Inc. 5000, 20 yrs in legal marketing
Engine 02 — Delivery

The Ops Engine.

The systems, dashboards, automations, and accountability architecture that catch the demand the growth engine produces — and let a growing firm scale without the managing partner becoming the bottleneck. Built and owned by Jim.

  • AI-powered intake — 24/7 capture, qualification, and conflict screening; response time from hours to minutes
  • Process architecture — SOPs, workflows, and role clarity, documented in a way the firm can actually maintain
  • KPI dashboards — real-time visibility into intake, conversion, case progress, billing, and team performance
  • Conflict checks & matter opening — automated, reliable, fast — eliminating the most common bottleneck in firm growth
  • Workflow automation — across CRM, billing, case management (Clio, MyCase, Filevine, etc.), and document generation
  • Leadership cadence — weekly scorecards, monthly reviews, quarterly strategy — accountability that holds
  • Fractional COO — Jim in the chair as needed, until the firm is running its own ops cleanly
Owned by Jim Firenze — COO, Tom Anelli & Associates
The seam

Where most firms actually break.

The growth engine and the ops engine aren't two separate products. They're a single system with one critical handoff — the moment a prospect becomes a qualified lead becomes an opened matter becomes a signed retainer. That handoff is where 30–40% of legal revenue dies. So that's where Counselcraft does its sharpest work.

  1. One pipeline, one source of truth. Marketing data and intake data live in the same system. No more "the leads from the agency aren't matching what intake recorded."
  2. Lead-to-retainer in days, not weeks. Qualified leads trigger automated qualification, conflict check, and retainer routing — typically signed in 1–3 days vs. 7–14.
  3. Attribution that survives audit. Every signed case traces back to the channel, campaign, content piece, and timeline that produced it. Investors get the truth.
  4. Partners stop being the system. The dashboard tells you where to look this week. Not a 4-hour partners meeting trying to remember what's broken.
Engagement options

Three ways in. One path forward.

We don't sell "packages." Every firm starts with a paid diagnostic so we both know what's actually broken before quoting an implementation. From there, you can hire us to build, to operate, or both.

01

Growth & Ops Diagnostic

A sharp 2–3 week audit of demand generation, intake, conversion, and operational leakage. We benchmark your firm against the new AI-search landscape and the operational standard for firms 2–3× your size. Output: a prioritized 90-day fix list with quantified revenue impact.

2–3 weeks · Fixed-fee · Credits toward build
02

Systems Build

We install the actual stack. Marketing engine on one side, intake + ops engine on the other, with the seam wired tightly. AI-first from day one, governed, measurable, and tied to signed cases rather than vanity metrics. 6–8 weeks to production for most firms.

6–8 weeks to production · Monthly retainer
03

Fractional Growth & COO

Ongoing leadership cadence after the build. Bob owns demand. Jim owns delivery. Weekly scorecards, monthly reviews, quarterly strategy. Designed to taper as your firm internalizes the operating system — not to balloon into permanent vendor dependency.

Quarterly retainer · By invitation
The stack

We meet your firm where it is.

We don't force a single platform. The systems we install integrate with the case management, billing, intake, and marketing platforms law firms already run on. Where a tool genuinely needs replacing, we'll say so plainly.

Case Mgmt
Clio · MyCase · Filevine · Practice Panther · CosmoLex
Marketing
Google Ads · Meta · GA4 · GSC · CallRail · HubSpot
Intake & AI
Custom AI agents · Lawmatics · Captorra · Smith.ai
Ops & Auto
Make · n8n · Zapier · Airtable · Notion · Slack
The right tool for the firm is the one the firm will actually use
after we leave the room.
— Counselcraft engineering principle

The system is the answer.
Let's go build it.

Every engagement starts with a paid diagnostic. By the end of week three you'll have a prioritized fix list, quantified revenue impact, and a clear go/no-go on the build phase.