Operating control for the modern law firm.

Stewardship combines technical oversight, analytics visibility, intake management, marketing operations, AI enablement, governance judgment, and software execution for firms that need real operating control without building a full in-house team all at once.

Start with a free cohort. Leave with a stronger website, clearer reporting, a better intake pattern, more direct control over the assets that matter, and a firmer view of what your firm should keep, fix, replace, or govern more tightly.

Where stewardship works

Stewardship sits where the firm needs visibility, ownership, better workflow, and direct operating leverage.

owned

Website

Who can ship changes, fix pages, and keep the front door moving.

audit

Analytics

GA4, tags, conversions, and the reporting the firm can actually inspect.

fix

Intake

Not just form notifications. A real intake record and management pattern.

owned

Publishing

Articles, attorney pages, metadata, and SEO work the firm can keep running.

audit

Vendors

Where agencies still add value, and where they are only sitting in the way.

govern

AI tools

What belongs in real workflow, what needs review, and what should stay out.

Why this exists

Firms are still paying premium retainers for a mix of real expertise, operational maintenance, and black-box control.

Some agency work still deserves specialist pricing. A lot of the bundle does not. Website edits, reporting access, intake routing, metadata hygiene, publishing changes, and vendor-to-vendor glue work should not stay permanently opaque.

01

Real specialist work

Market judgment, creative strategy, channel expertise, and high-stakes campaign decisions.

02

Operational work

Page updates, landing-page revisions, metadata hygiene, reporting setup, and routing changes.

03

Obscured glue

Admin access, attribution interpretation, vendor-to-vendor handoffs, and reporting the firm cannot inspect cleanly.

Stewardship exists to separate what is still genuinely specialist work from what the firm should now be able to inspect, control, or keep.

Free cohort

The first move is practical: get control back.

The cohort is not a pitch for permanent dependency. It is a structured intervention for firms that know too much of their website, reporting, intake, or growth operation sits outside direct firm control.

Free cohort spots are limited each month.

Some firms have edit access. Fewer have code ownership, deployment control, and a site they can actually keep.

30-day intervention

Week 1

Inventory what is real

Accounts, access, analytics, forms, intake flow, publishing process, reporting paths, and vendor dependencies.

Week 2

Recover control

Get the firm direct visibility into the systems shaping demand, intake, and reporting.

Week 3

Fix the weak points

Clean up the front door, the reporting chain, the intake pattern, and the publishing workflow.

Day 30

Leave behind a working baseline

Owned assets, stronger operating paths, clearer governance, and a direct next-step recommendation.

What the firm can leave with

A stronger or rebuilt firm website

Firm-owned GitHub and deployment control where needed

Direct analytics and reporting visibility

A better intake pattern than form-to-inbox handling

Publishing and SEO workflows the firm can keep using

A marketing-data and attribution reality check

A compliance and data residency posture for firm assets and AI tools

A clear keep / fix / replace / govern recommendation

Leave with a better front door to your firm, a stronger intake baseline, and more operating leverage without unnecessary churn.
Security posture is not a badge on a sales page. It is who owns the code, who controls deployment, who can inspect the integrations, and what the firm keeps if it wants to leave.

Where stewardship sits

Operating coverage across data, engineering, marketing, intake, and AI governance.

Stewardship keeps the systems around growth and operations inspectable: the website, analytics, intake, publishing, vendor relationships, and AI tooling that shape how the firm operates.

Retained operating layer

Operating oversight backed by engineering.

Technical judgment, workflow cleanup, vendor accountability, AI governance, and the engineering capacity to make the fixes instead of handing the firm another memo.

Oversight
Implementation
Governance
Accountability

Intake

fix

Managed intake

This is where public demand becomes operational truth. If intake is loose, the rest of the operating picture degrades with it.

Marketing-data audit

What the firm can’t see, it can’t manage.

Stewardship includes auditing the marketing and attribution picture the firm can actually obtain: what the channels say, what the site captured, what the intake record preserves, what the pipeline knows, and where the reporting truth starts to break.

Reporting chain

available

Traffic and spend

What the channels say they produced.

available

Website behavior

What the site and analytics actually captured.

repair

Intake record

What survives once a human inquiry becomes intake work.

repair

Pipeline and outcome

Where attribution often thins out or disappears.

risk

Reporting truth

What the firm can verify directly versus what is only being inferred.

The goal is not prettier dashboards. The goal is a more truthful operating picture: what the firm can verify directly, what is only inferred, and what the current setup makes impossible to answer.

Intake management

Firms have intake forms. Few have intake systems.

For many firms, website intake still means a form submission hits an inbox and someone handles it from there. That is a notification pattern, not a real intake system.

The old pattern

Website form sends an email
Someone checks the inbox
Follow-up depends on whoever is available
Attribution and intake context drift apart

The better pattern

Website intake creates a real record
The intake is visible and managed
Follow-up and routing happen in one place
Reporting and intake stay connected

AI governance

AI governance baseline for firms already exploring legal AI tooling.

Not part of the free cohort. AI governance is one operating responsibility inside the broader firm system: which tools belong where, what gets reviewed, how data moves, and how the team is trained to use the right workflows.

Paid AI governance engagement

AI governance baseline

Use it to establish a serious baseline for current AI usage, tool placement, review boundaries, and the operating rules the firm can keep. It is for firms already testing tools, adopting them unevenly, or discovering that AI policy alone is not enough.

Current-state AI audit
Tool and workflow placement
Review and approval boundaries
Data movement and retention posture
Team operating rules and rollout
$3k fixed engagement

What it establishes

Move from AI policy to governance

Establish what is approved, what needs review, what data can move, and where specific tools actually belong in workflow instead of stopping at broad policy language.

Keep connector and build work in retained stewardship

The baseline defines the operating model. Connector design, workflow integration, and consulting-engineer execution stay in ongoing stewardship.

Keep / fix / replace / govern

Not everything needs to move. The point is judgment, not churn.

Some systems should stay. Some need cleanup. Some should be replaced. Some are acceptable only with tighter review and clearer operating rules.

Keep

The current system is working, the firm can inspect it, and the relationship serves the firm cleanly.

Fix

The system can stay, but the access, reporting, workflow, or ownership model needs cleanup.

Replace

The setup traps the firm, blurs the picture, or creates too much dependency to keep defending.

Govern

The tool or workflow may stay in place, but only with tighter review, ownership, and operating rules.

Ongoing stewardship

Retained non-equity officer coverage when the operating layer needs to stay close.

Some firms need the intervention and then want to run with it. Others want a retained operator across technology, reporting, intake, vendor accountability, AI tool selection, workflow placement, team enablement, and implementation without building a full internal officer bench.

This is where reporting oversight, workflow cleanup, connector and build work, vendor accountability, and governance evolution stay close month to month instead of drifting back into loose ownership.

What stays close

Website and publishing oversight
Analytics and attribution review
Intake and funnel tuning
Vendor-accountability pressure
AI governance as tools and workflows change
Compliance and data residency review
Selective software and systems execution

Boutique

$5k / month

For firms that want the website, intake, reporting, publishing, and vendor relationships kept under tighter operating control without building a full internal team.

Specialized

$7.5k / month

For firms with higher-stakes workflow, stronger confidentiality requirements, heavier intake or marketing complexity, and more ongoing implementation pressure.

Officer tier

$10k+ / month

A retained non-equity officer relationship for firms that want operating oversight kept close across technology, data, growth, intake, AI governance, and execution.

Start with the free cohort. Keep the control.

Use the cohort to get a stronger website, clearer reporting visibility, better intake management, sharper vendor boundaries, and a real picture of what your firm should own next.