Your clients are checking. AI is answering.

For 200 to 500-plus-attorney firms. At your size, clients are not searching for you; they are checking on you. Renewals, panel reviews, referrals vetted in private: AI now sits inside every one of them, and your directory rankings do not follow you there. We quantify the gap privately, principal-led, with your data kept confidential.

Asked in private · the night before your renewal
"Any red flags with our outside counsel before we renew for next year?"
What the answer gets wrong
• Lists a partner who retired two years ago
• Cites a directory profile, not your pages
• Offers two other firms "worth considering"
You will never know this search happened.

A pattern from our audits of firms your size.

The quiet checks

Your name is already in the question.

Buyers meet firms in seven types of AI questions. For a firm your size, the first losses are not the shortlist searches; they are the checks that happen about you, in private, by people who already know your name.

THE VETTING

A GC your partner has courted for a year finally gets the referral. Before any meeting, they check the name in private, four questions deep. What that answer says, you never see.

THE EVIDENCE

The GC picked you. The CFO types "is this a reputable firm" before releasing next year's budget. One stale fact, one directory citation, and the approval slows.

THE REPUTATION

"Any red flags with this firm?" asked the night before your engagement renews. This is where wrong facts do their damage, quietly.

THE PERSON

"Who leads on cross-border M&A in New York?" Your rainmaker built that practice, and AI does not name them for it. Origination lives in this answer.

The shortlist and the new-matter questions matter too. But at your scale, the business you already hold is questioned far more often than new business is searched.

Three layers

A single firm-wide score hides the truth.

AI grades you at three layers: the firm, each practice, and each named partner. Your strongest practice and your invisible one average into one number, and the partner who built a practice can be missing from his own specialty. We measure and build all three layers, which is why our findings name your practices and your partners, not a brand.

Does this sound like you?

You suspect the gap exists. You want it quantified, quietly.

You hold Chambers and Legal 500 rankings across multiple practices and offices, and you invest in the directories every year.

You've heard AI is changing how clients and GCs research firms, and you suspect your presence doesn't reflect your standing.

You need a partner that operates at your level, not a self-serve widget.

And before anything else, you need to know exactly where your firm's data goes.

The real question

Is this senior enough for a firm our size, and is our data safe?

Both, by design. Selectio is a principal-led engagement, and confidentiality is built into how we work.

SENIOR BY DESIGN

You work with the founders

Not a dashboard. The people who built the methodology run your engagement, run the Mirror intake, step two of The Visibility Loop, with firm leadership directly, and reflect the complexity of a multi-office, many-practice firm rather than a single mid-size sample.

CONFIDENTIAL BY DEFAULT

Your data stays private

Audit data is used only to produce your analysis, and a full data-handling and confidentiality statement is part of every engagement, in writing, before any firm data moves.

  • The free check needs nothing from you. The Signal Audit runs on public AI answers, without firm input.
  • Your data serves only your engagement. Kept private, never shared, and never used to benefit a competitor.
  • Findings stay anonymous. No firm we audit is ever named in our materials without written consent.
What we do for you

Rigor is the trust signal. So we lead with it.

The audit quantifies what you suspect: 181 buyer-intent questions across five platforms, with platform-by-platform breakdowns and the findings set in front of firm leadership. Then the program follows a clear path across every practice and office that matters.

01
Signal audit
Is AI getting your facts right? Run without firm input.
02
Mirror intake
What do you want to be known for? On the record.
03
Full audit
The measured gap, by practice and by attorney.
04
Readout
One defensible articulation your leadership can repeat.
05
Strategy & roadmap
What we fix, what we hold, what we go win. Benchmarks frozen.

The Visibility Loop. Execution phases inside the Loop: Content → Build → Amplify → Monitor.

Where this goes

Triage. Build. Own your market.

Every engagement climbs the same pyramid: the record corrected, the record held against named rivals, and the ground you care about claimed and kept.

Own · The endgame
The practices and markets you intend to own, claimed before rivals reach them, and held.
Build · Never stops
Benchmarked against named peers, fixes verified, movement tracked monthly. Even owned ground keeps shifting.
Triage · The foundation
The obvious errors fixed first: phantom offices, retired partners, wrong practice claims. Quick, verifiable, pays for itself.
1Start at Triage. The free check shows what is wrong today; the first cycle fixes it.
2Grow into Build. The monthly cadence that closes gaps and proves movement.
3Reach Own. The practices where the answers name you first, and keep naming you.
Why trust selectio

Built by specialists, measured with rigor.

THE FOUNDERS

Principal-led, end to end

You work directly with the founders. Selectio was built from inside legal tech, by the people who run your engagement.

Jacob Shamis, Co-Founder of selectio.aiMichael Carlson, Co-Founder of selectio.aiStephen Meriwether, Co-Founder of selectio.ai
Jacob Shamis, Michael Carlson & Stephen Meriwether
Co-founders · formerly Litera & Stride
THE METHOD

Measurement, not opinion

181 buyer-intent questions across five platforms, with the named leaderboard and share of voice your leadership can act on.

FROM A REAL AUDIT

A Band 1 firm, nearly invisible

In one of our audits, a Chambers Band 1 litigation firm appeared in 1.9% of buyer-intent answers, ranked 11th of 11 against its named competitors, with none of its own pages cited.

Senior · principal-led · confidential

A conversation, not a widget.

Book a strategy call with the founders to walk through where your firm stands and what closing the gap involves. A confidential pre-call audit can be prepared in advance.

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Your data is kept private, and never used to benefit another firm.