Case studies

Work shipped for real clients.

Every case study here is a system that is still running in production. Outcomes are measured, not estimated.

Legal staffing

All Legal Staff

Weeks

to AI search visibility

Now they're getting found on ChatGPT

  • Clients and candidates began finding the firm through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews within weeks of launch
  • Eliminated recurring outside web development costs — the team now makes changes themselves
  • Replaced an underused CRM with tools they actually use

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Legal staffing

Southeast legal staffing firm

10 hrs → 10 min

weekly job posting time

One click to post. Zero confidentiality incidents.

  • Operations lead went from 10 hours a week to under 10 minutes on job posting
  • Zero confidentiality incidents since the AI lint pass went live
  • Posts go to five platforms from a single approval click — no platform switching, no double entry

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Professional services

Professional services firm

4 platforms

from a single workflow

Nobody logs into four platforms anymore

  • Scheduled content goes live on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and the company blog without manual platform switching
  • Human approval is still in the loop — nothing posts without a review step
  • Content planning moved to a shared spreadsheet the whole team can edit

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Commercial real estate

Pacific Northwest commercial real estate firm

12 min → 30 sec

Per-prospect research time

The AI foundation a tech-forward CRE firm now runs themselves

  • Per-prospect research time collapsed from around 12 minutes to under 30 seconds on the first automated workflow
  • Lead enrichment hit rate increased substantially on properties that previously returned blank
  • Prospecting against a full market now runs in one evening instead of a week of work

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