For Personal-Injury Law Firms

One line in
your robots.txt.
That’s the whole problem.

You’re spending real money on digital and a crawler directive is quietly keeping the AI engines out of the pages you paid for. ScoutRival measures what AI says about your firm, finds what’s blocking it, and drafts the case content that earns citations — for attorney review, never auto-published.

ChatGPT + Gemini, labelledDrafts for attorney reviewLive in ~5 minutes

Free · no card · result in about 60 seconds

Live · 2 engines checked
scoutrival.com/scan · harrisonaccidentlaw.com Live
Prompt tested
 
ChatGPT
Cited 4 sources — a national legal directory, no firm.
Web-grounded
Gemini
Recalled “Bellamy & Cruz” by name.
Memory probe
0
AI-visibility 28/100 (±9). Bellamy & Cruz is named for your top money keyword. The case questions — asked two weeks before anyone calls a lawyer — are answered by a national directory.
Tomorrow’s brief · action #1

Publish “Do I still have a case if I was partly at fault? Florida comparative negligence explained.” It’s the highest-volume pre-retainer question and no Tampa firm has answered it properly.

See it in 84 seconds

The morning this replaces.

One brief, one action, one approved post — before your first appointment. No feature tour, just the loop.

1:24 runtime10 beats4K light themeVO included
01The problem

You out-spend everyone and still lose the answer.

Paid search in this practice area has reached a level where growth through bidding stops working. The cheaper channel is organic and AI — and almost nobody is measuring whether they’re in it.

$442
Average cost per paid lead — vs $183 organic.
Organic-sourced leads run roughly 59% cheaper. Every firm knows they need the cheaper channel; almost none has a system for winning it.
PI marketing benchmarks 2026 · verify
$2,500
To $3,000 in ad spend per signed case.
And a single click on a competitive accident keyword can exceed $300. The treadmill gets faster, not cheaper.
Cost-per-signed-case benchmarking 2026 · verify
0–20%
Of gross revenue spent on marketing.
Several times the 2–5% typical for law overall. The budget exists — what’s missing is an instrument to tell you whether any of it reaches the AI answers.
Law firm marketing benchmarks · verify
0%
Of people now ask AI to find a local business.
Up from 6% a year ago. Legal research has shifted faster than almost any consumer category — clients ask about the case before they ask about a lawyer.
BrightLocal 2026 · verify
02A day in the life
Illustrative scenario

A Tuesday at Harrison Accident Law.

One realistic quarter — and the technical finding that changed it.

1
Tuesday · Dana, managing partner

The firm spends $18,000 a month on digital. The agency report shows impressions up. Nobody in the meeting can answer a partner’s question: “are we in the AI answers, and if not, why not?”

$18k/moQuestion unanswered
2
The gap

She asks ChatGPT for the best car accident lawyer in Tampa. It names a rival firm. She asks the pre-retainer question — *do I have a case if I was partly at fault* — and it cites a national directory. No Tampa firm at all.

Rival named0 firms cited on case questions
3
Thursday · ScoutRival, day one

The scan scores the firm 28/100 and finds the reason in under a minute: a crawler directive is blocking answer-time AI access to the practice-area pages the firm has been paying to promote. One line to change.

60 seconds$01 line to fix
One quarter later

The block is gone and sixteen case-question guides are live, each reviewed and approved by an attorney before publishing. The firm is now cited for two pre-retainer questions — the ones asked two weeks before anyone calls a lawyer.

~5 min/day16 guides liveCited on 2 prompts
03How ScoutRival solves it

Four jobs a marketing hire would do — in one seat.

Pick the pain. See exactly what the product does about it.

AI-Visibility check

We ask ChatGPT (web-grounded, with citations) and Gemini (a memory probe) both your money keywords and the case questions that precede them, and score how often the firm is named — with a confidence band, re-checkable any day.

AI-Visibility checklive
“best car accident lawyer Tampa” rival named
“do I have a case if partly at fault” directory cited
“Florida claim deadline” named ✓
The partner question finally has an answer, with receipts.
Setup 2 minRe-check 60 sec

Site AI audit + Traffic

A 31-point audit finds what’s stopping the engines reading pages you’re already paying to promote — most often a crawler directive nobody chose. Your own Search Console and Bing data sit alongside the visibility score, so you can measure any agency against an instrument they don’t control.

Site AI audit + Trafficlive
AI access blocked by robots directive
Citability 31
Practice-area pages not readable
An independent measurement of the money you’re already spending.
Fix cards includedGSC + BingYours, not the agency’s

BlogCraft case content

BlogCraft writes the questions clients ask before they call a lawyer — fault, deadlines, case value, what happens next — structured for citation, in your firm’s voice. Published to WordPress as a draft for attorney review. Nothing goes live without you.

BlogCraft case contentlive
“Partly at fault — do I have a case?” draft ready
Citation-probability score 92
Answer-first block + FAQ schema passed
The firm becomes the source clients read before they retain anyone.
Per article under 1 minAttorney approvesDraft-safe

Competitor watch + Daily Brief

Watch the firms you actually compete with across nine channels including founder-level LinkedIn — which is where a partner departure or a new office is announced first. A morning brief tells you what changed and what to do.

Competitor watch + Daily Brieflive
Rival firm launched a TV campaign flagged
Partner updated LinkedIn “new firm”
Your move: publish the deadline guide drafted
You hear about a new competitor before the billboards go up.
Read time 2 min/dayFounder tracking
04The impact

Less time. Less spend. More found.

What a normal month looks like before ScoutRival, and after. Same firm, same spend, better instrumentation.

Your time, per month
~0 hr
given back across the marketing meeting and the content that never shipped
Preparing the agency review ~3 hr a month ~30 min
Chasing content that never ships ~6 hr under 1 min an article
Checking what rivals launched ~2 hr 0
Reading the morning brief ~5 min a day
Your stack, per month
4 → 1
four subscriptions and four logins become one seat
AI-visibility tracker $25–83 included
AI writing tool $39–99 included
Design tool for graphics $15–30 included
Competitor / social listening $99+ included
What actually moves
0+
pre-retainer questions answered on your own site, in a quarter
Prompts where you’re named unknown measured
Case questions answered 0 16+
Crawler blocks found unknown flagged with the fix
Rival moves caught late most none

Figures are modelled from a mid-size firm spending in the $10–25k/month band. The third card is what the product measures — we will not promise signed cases, and any vendor who does is guessing.

05Your free scan

In 60 seconds, see which firm AI names instead of yours.

No card, no call. Drop your domain in — we’ll show you the money keywords, the pre-retainer questions, and the technical reason the engines aren’t reading your pages.

Scanning…2 engines
ChatGPT · grounded
Cited 4 sources — a national legal directory, no firm.
not named
Competitor activity
Recalled “Bellamy & Cruz” by name.
tracked
28

The full report lists every prompt you’re missing and the top 3 actions to fix it.

Get my full report →

Free · no credit card · this is a sample — your real scan runs live

01 Enter your site
02 We test your money prompts
03 You get the report — no call
06vs. what you use today

Three ways to solve this. One fits a firm.

A legal-marketing agency, a stack of tools, or one seat. The honest comparison — including the two things we don’t do.

Option A

Marketing agency

$5,000–25,000 / month
  • Rarely measures AI visibility
  • Competitor watch not in scope
  • Direction on a monthly call
  • Writes content — in 2–4 weeks
  • Manages reviews and posting
  • You own the content — check the contract
Real expertise, real cost. You wait on someone else’s calendar, and the knowledge leaves when they do.
Option B

Four separate tools

~$180–290 / month
  • Tracks AI visibility
  • Listening is enterprise-priced
  • You interpret all of the data
  • Generic content unless you prompt well
  • Four logins, none share context
  • You own everything you make
Cheaper than an agency — but you become the integration layer, and that’s the job you didn’t want.
Built for a business like yours Option C

ScoutRival

One seat · see pricing →
  • Two engines, labelled — re-check any day
  • Nine channels + founder-level tracking
  • A daily brief with one clear action
  • Content in your voice, drafted in ~90 seconds
  • Branded graphics + one-click WordPress
  • Yours forever — export anytime
  • Doesn’t manage reviews — keep your reputation tool
  • Doesn’t integrate with your case-management system
The last two are deliberate. We’d rather you knew now than found out in month two — everything else is in one seat.
Run my free scan

Firms reasonably expect a marketing product to touch intake and case management. It doesn’t, and saying so early prevents a procurement conversation that would have died later anyway.

07What owners tell us

Built for the partner who owns the marketing question.

The question nobody in the meeting could answer — in the words of the firms that answered it.

08The math

One signed case covers a decade.

Drag to your reality: how many cases a month do you think you lose to the firm AI names instead of yours?

Cases you’re losing / month3
151015
Cost of staying invisible / yr
At roughly $12,000 — conservative average fee on a settled PI matter.
vs
ScoutRival / yr
$1,068
Visibility, competitor intel, content and publishing — less than what you’re losing.

Case values vary enormously by matter type — use your own. Full plan details on the See the pricing page →

09FAQ

Everything owners ask before they start.

What exactly do I get on day one?
A measured AI-visibility score across ChatGPT and Gemini for your money keywords and the pre-retainer questions that precede them, a 31-point technical audit — which in law firms very often surfaces a crawler directive blocking the pages you’re paying to promote — and your first case guide drafted for attorney review. Setup takes about five minutes.
How does this work with bar advertising rules?
It’s built around them. Everything arrives as a draft an attorney approves — long-form guides publish to WordPress as drafts, never live. Content answers questions rather than promising outcomes, which is the safer shape for compliance anyway. Your review process governs publishing speed, not the tool.
Which AI engines do you check, and how?
Two, and we label which is which. ChatGPT runs web-grounded, so it cites live sources and we show you those citations. Gemini runs as a memory probe — what the model already believes about your market, without citations. They’re deliberately different signals, and reading them together tells you more than a single number would.
Is the score something I can trust and act on?
Yes — because we show you the working. You get a weighted 0–100 score with a confidence band, share of voice against the competitors you actually have, and the receipts behind every answer. AI answers shift between runs, so we show the band rather than a false-precision ranking — and you can re-check any day to watch it move.
I already pay an agency. Does this replace them?
It can, and plenty of owners use it that way. But the sharper move is to ask your agency what your AI-visibility score is. If they have an answer, keep them — you have a good agency. If they don’t, you’ve found the gap, and one seat gives you an independent instrument to measure their work every month for a fraction of the retainer.
What does one seat actually include?
AI-visibility tracking across both engines, nine-channel competitor monitoring with founder-level LinkedIn, the daily brief, content generation in your voice, branded graphics from a 330-design library, long-form articles with one-click WordPress publishing, a 31-point site audit, and Google Search Console plus Bing traffic. On Pro and Agency you can connect your own AI key and generate at zero credit cost. [See the full comparison →](/pricing)
How soon will I show up in AI?
Honestly: it compounds, and nobody can promise a date. Publishing the content that answers your buyers’ questions is what earns citations over the following weeks. What you get on day one is the measurement — exactly which prompts you’re missing and the actions most likely to change it. Anyone promising an overnight “#1 in ChatGPT” is guessing.
What if it isn’t right for us?
Start free — no card, and the scan costs nothing. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee, you can cancel anytime with no lock-in, and everything you generate exports as HTML, Markdown, PDF or plain text. What you create is yours whether you stay or not. Two things we deliberately don’t do: manage reviews, and integrate with case management. If either is your only gap, we’ll tell you a different tool is the better spend.
Two minutes, no card

Find out which firm AI names instead of yours.

Then decide. The scan is free, the report is yours, and nobody calls you.

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Partner programme

Your audience runs law firms. Send them something useful.

If you consult for firms, run a legal-marketing community, or build attorney websites, ScoutRival pays recurring commission on every firm you refer — for as long as they stay.

  • Recurring commission, not one-off. You earn every month they stay, not just on the first payment.
  • Your rate is set on fit. Reviewed individually on your audience and authority — not a flat rate everyone gets.
  • A link that does the work. Send this page. The free scan gives them a specific finding in about a minute — no demo call to book.
  • Nothing you have to defend. Two engines, labelled. No invented rankings. We say what the product doesn’t do, so you’re never the one over-promising.
  • A 30-day attribution window and a partner dashboard showing clicks, signups and earnings.

How it works

1
Apply in about two minutes
Tell us who your audience is. No traffic minimum.
2
We review it by hand
Every application is read by a person. Rate set on audience fit, not a tier table.
3
You get a link and your rate
Share this page, the free scan, or your own write-up. Tracked for 30 days.
4
You earn every month they stay
Commission clears after a 45-day hold, $50 minimum payout, visible in your dashboard.
Recurring
not one-off
30 days
attribution window
Per-partner
rate set on fit