We built Selectio because the way clients choose counsel changed.
An AI visibility advisory built for law firms, by people who came from inside legal tech. Here is why we founded it, and who you work with.
Across the legal world, we kept hearing the same thing.
Talk to enough people in the legal world, managing partners, marketing leaders, business development teams, and the same worry surfaces from very different corners. Inquiries are softening. Website traffic is sliding. And when a client opens an AI assistant and asks who to hire for a matter, the firm that should be the obvious answer is not in it. Different firms, different cities, the same quiet realization: the place where clients now decide can no longer see them. There is a name for it now. The AI visibility gap.
For a law firm, that is not a marketing problem. It is existential. A firm sells one thing, and it is not hours or offices or a logo. It is reputation. The trust earned over decades of won cases, the Chambers rankings, the standing built carefully on a website and defended in court. Everything a firm is rests on that reputation, and clients used to read it exactly where firms had placed it. Now an AI answers first, and it does not weigh any of the signals a firm spent a generation building. The firms with the deepest reputations are often the ones it represents worst. Their standing did not disappear. It simply went quiet in the one room that now matters.
And there is a second clock running. The same firms are adopting AI inside their walls, and their lawyers are getting faster and more productive, which frees real capacity that has to be filled with new work. But new work has to be won, and it cannot be won by a firm the AI cannot find. The visibility gap and the billing gap turn out to be the same problem, seen from two ends. The harder a firm leans into AI on the inside, the more it has to be seen by AI on the outside.
So we built Selectio to do one thing, for one industry, and nothing else. Not professional services in general. Law firms, which are unlike any business we have worked with. A firm is not a single brand with a single story. It is the firm, every practice group, and every individual lawyer, each with a reputation of its own, and AI reads all three. That complexity is exactly why generic tools fail here, and exactly why we chose to work only here. Our job is simple to say and harder to earn: to put the firms we serve back in front of the clients now choosing in AI, and make sure they are recognized for everything they have already built.
You work with us, not a team of junior analysts.
Jacob has spent more than 20 years in B2B marketing, including as VP of Marketing at Stride and most recently VP of Growth and Product Marketing at Litera, working at the intersection of law and technology. At Selectio he leads positioning and how firms are presented to the engines their clients now use to choose counsel.
Michael is a founder and product leader who has spent his career building AI enterprise software. He led innovation as VP of Stride Labs, where he and Jacob first worked together. His focus now is agentic AI: how to harness it to help law firms close the AI visibility gap.
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