The AI search team that
finds where your firm loses cases to invisibility, then ships the fix
Almost every client who hires you researched on Google or asked an AI assistant first. If the firm ranking above you, or the firm ChatGPT cites, gets the call, the case never reaches your intake form. kratt runs a free audit that ranks where you are losing signed matters across classic search and answer engines in dollars, then builds, hosts, and runs the technical SEO, topical content, schema, and AEO that puts your firm in front of high-intent searchers and inside AI answers. Wired into your site and intake stack, not ours.
What the open loop is costing you.
The conservative numbers below are pulled from kratt's audit data and published industry research for legal. Every leaky channel here is a competitor's win.
- · Grow Law / On The Map Marketing legal SEO statistics 2025: ~90% of legal clients begin their search on Google; the large majority never click past page one.
- · WordStream 2025 industry benchmarks via iLawyer Marketing: legal has the highest average cost per lead of any industry at ~$131.63, and high-intent attorney CPCs run $50-$200+ (personal injury), $40-$100 (criminal defense).
- · Justia Onward, BrightEdge, and Semrush AI Overviews studies 2025: law & government is among the fastest-growing AI Overview categories; legal (YMYL) queries trigger AI Overviews roughly 23-24% of the time, with AIO-organic overlap reported at 68-75% for legal content.
- · Search Engine Journal / Backlinko CTR data: the top three organic results capture ~54% of clicks; ~91.5% of users never reach page two; SEO converts legal visitors at ~7.5% versus ~2.2% for paid search.
Wired into the tools you already run.
We build on the stack your firm already runs. Content and technical fixes ship into your existing WordPress or Webflow site, structured data and llms.txt make every practice-area and attorney page citation-ready for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, and intake events flow back from CallRail and your case-management system (Clio, MyCase, Filevine) so we can prove which rankings turn into signed matters. Local presence is tuned through Google Business Profile and the legal directories that AI assistants read. Nothing is locked into a kratt-only platform. The audit is the only thing that is yours to keep regardless of what you do next.
Four playbooks shipping in week one.
Each playbook is shippable within audit in days of kickoff. Most legal clients start with the first two and add the rest in weeks 2–4.
Practice-area page and topical cluster build
We map every service you offer and every question prospective clients ask, then build technically sound, internally linked practice-area pages and supporting articles that rank for the high-intent searches that turn into consultations, instead of thin pages that never crack page one.
Targets the ~54% of clicks the top 3 captureAnswer-engine optimization for AI citations
We restructure your content with the schema, clear question-and-answer formatting, llms.txt, and authority signals that get a firm quoted by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, so when someone asks an AI which lawyer to hire or how a law works in your jurisdiction, your firm is the cited source.
Aims at the ~24% of legal queries with AI answersLocal and Google Business Profile dominance
We optimize your Google Business Profile, local landing pages, and directory citations (Avvo, Justia, FindLaw) so your firm shows in the local pack and map results for in-market searchers, since most clients want an attorney within an hour of where they live.
Captures near-me and local-pack intentCore Web Vitals and crawlability foundation
We fix the technical debt that quietly caps rankings, slow load times, poor mobile rendering, broken schema, orphaned pages, and indexation issues, so the content you already have can compete and the new content we ship is read correctly by both Google and AI crawlers.
Removes the technical ceiling on every pageReal numbers from a real operator.
What closing the search-visibility loop looks like for a multi-attorney firm
What it costs, without the dance.
Every engagement opens with a free AI audit that ranks where your firm is losing signed cases across classic search and answer engines, in dollars. That audit is the only deliverable that is yours to keep no matter what you decide next. If you want kratt to build and run the fix, it is a hosted monthly retainer scoped to your practice areas, market competitiveness, and the size of the leak the audit finds, priced against the cases you are missing rather than a flat package. You see the number before anything is committed.
Five things legal operators ask first.
The questions every legal prospect asks on the first call. Answers in writing so you can decide before booking.
How much does AI SEO + AEO for a law firm cost?+
It starts with a free AI audit that ranks where your firm is losing signed cases to search and AI invisibility, in dollars. That report is yours to keep regardless of what you decide. If you want kratt to build and run the fix, pricing is a hosted monthly retainer scoped to your practice areas, market competitiveness, and the size of the leak the audit finds. We size it against the cases you are currently missing, not a flat package, and you see the number before anything is committed.
What is the difference between SEO and AEO for lawyers?+
Classic SEO gets your firm ranking in Google's organic results through technical foundations, topical content, schema, and Core Web Vitals. AEO, or answer-engine optimization, gets your firm cited inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews when someone asks a legal question or which attorney to hire. Roughly a quarter of legal queries already trigger an AI answer, so we work both fronts together rather than betting on one.
Will AI Overviews and ChatGPT kill organic traffic for law firms?+
They are reshaping it, not ending it. Zero-click searches are rising and AI Overviews lower click-through for pages that are not cited, but brands cited inside AI answers see materially higher click-through. The firms that lose are the ones absent from both the organic results and the AI answer. The audit shows exactly where you stand on each, and our build is designed to get you cited rather than bypassed.
How long until we see results from legal SEO?+
Technical fixes and AEO structuring can start surfacing in AI answers and improving crawlability within weeks. Competitive practice-area rankings in classic search typically build over a few months, since legal is one of the most competitive verticals online. kratt ships the foundation in days, not months, then runs and reports on it continuously so you watch the intake numbers move rather than waiting on a quarterly slide deck.
Is this safe given legal advertising and ethics rules?+
Yes. We work within bar advertising rules: no fabricated testimonials, no misleading specialization claims, and clear, accurate practice and jurisdiction information. AEO content is grounded in your real attorneys, real practice areas, and authoritative sources, which is exactly what both ethics rules and AI citation models reward. We flag anything that needs your compliance sign-off before it ships.
How do you measure whether legal SEO is actually generating cases?+
We wire call tracking and your case-management system into the work so we can tie rankings and AI citations to intake calls, consultations booked, and signed matters, not just traffic. Because organic converts legal visitors at roughly three times the rate of paid search, the report focuses on qualified intake and cost per signed case, which is the number that actually moves your revenue.
How do you get a law firm cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews?+
By making your content the cleanest, most authoritative answer to the questions clients ask. That means structured data for your firm, attorneys, and services, clear question-and-answer formatting, an llms.txt that tells AI crawlers what to use, jurisdiction-specific accuracy, and citations and reviews on the legal directories these engines read. The free audit shows which AI engines currently cite you, which cite competitors, and the gap to close.
We already have an SEO agency. Why kratt?+
Most legal SEO agencies hand you a monthly report and a backlink invoice and stop at classic search. kratt does the strategy and the build from one team, covers the AEO front that the answer engines now control, wires the work into your intake stack so you see signed cases rather than vanity traffic, and hosts and runs the system continuously. If the free audit shows your current agency already has it handled, we will tell you.
Other verticals we ship AI SEO for.
Same technical SEO, AEO, and a content engine, tuned to industry-specific needs. Same deploy cadence. Same guarantees.
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