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Which channels produced retained defence matters?

Match retained matters and fees to the calls and campaigns that produced them, in a market where the decision is made within hours.

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The blind spot

What's actually happening

Defence enquiries are urgent and price-sensitive, and a large share never retain. Call volume tells you which channel produces urgency, not which produces clients.

Fees, not enquiries

Rank channels by fees earned so one signed matter outweighs fifty enquiries.

Matters resolve much later

A matter signed this year and resolved next still traces to the ad behind it.

Defensible in a partner meeting

Only exact matches count automatically; anything weaker is flagged rather than assumed.

The number you can take into a budget meeting

Not impressions, not leads, not cost per click. Closed revenue, by the channel that produced it, for a period you choose — with the portion we could not trace shown rather than quietly shared out across your paid channels.

FY2026
Total revenue $400,000
Attributed to a channel $244,000 61% of revenue
Average deal $5,000
Match rate 73%
ChannelSalesRevenueShare
Google Ads42$208,000
Meta Ads5$24,000
Email marketing2$12,000
Direct / Unknown31$156,000

Urgency compresses the funnel but not the variance

Defence decisions are often made the same day, which makes the funnel short but does nothing to reduce the variance between channels. A channel producing many calls that do not retain is still the expensive one.

Ranking on retained fees separates them. It also shows which channels produce the matter types a firm actually wants rather than whichever arrives first.

Referral is large and usually unmeasured

Bail bondsmen, former clients and other attorneys refer a significant share of matters, and that is normally treated as invisible while advertising is measured precisely.

Uploaded as a source file, referral becomes comparable on the same basis, which frequently reframes where the marketing effort should go.

What changes when you can prove it

You stop defending the budget and start growing it

"We generated 400 leads" invites an argument. "This channel closed $186,400 last quarter, here is the reconciliation" ends one. The teams that can show closed revenue by channel are the teams that get the next increase approved, because they are asking with evidence rather than with conviction.

You can cut the wrong channel without a fight

Killing spend is politically harder than adding it, because someone always owns the channel being cut. A number that reconciles to the sales export takes the argument out of the room — you are not overruling a colleague's judgement, you are reading the same ledger they are.

Your reporting survives the finance review

Platform-reported conversions do not reconcile to revenue, and eventually someone in finance notices. Reporting built from your own closed-sales export starts from the number finance already trusts, which is why it holds up when it is checked.

You answer in an afternoon, not a quarter

Because this reconciles exports rather than tracking visitors, it works on months that have already closed. You are not instrumenting now to learn something in ninety days — you can answer for last quarter today, which is usually when the question is being asked.

What criminal defense usually push back on

Decisions happen within hours.

Which the report handles fine — a short cycle is easier than a long one. The variance between channels is the thing being measured.

Fees vary from a few hundred to six figures.

Which is why ranking on fees rather than matter count matters.

Client confidentiality.

A contact detail, a fee and a date. No charge, no matter details, nothing else.

Pricing

Flat monthly pricing with no per-call, per-minute or per-form fees. The number here is the number on the invoice. Most criminal defense land on Growth.

Starter

A single business getting started

$49/mo

billed monthly

  • 1 workspace · 1 seat
  • 500 sales records / month
  • 6-month saved history
  • Phone + email matching with confidence tiers
  • Assisted column mapping
  • Your logo on every report
  • CSV export

Enterprise

One business closing at volume

$499/mo

billed monthly

  • 1 workspace · 10 seats
  • 25,000 sales records / month (+$49 per 10,000)
  • 24-month history
  • Campaign drill-down and period comparison
  • Your logo on every report
  • Roles, permissions and guided onboarding

Agency

Reporting on many clients at once

$799/mo

billed monthly

  • 10 client workspaces (+$25/mo each)
  • 10 seats
  • 10,000 sales records / month per workspace
  • 24-month history
  • White-label reports — our mark removed entirely
  • Roles, permissions and guided onboarding

Questions criminal defense ask

Retained matters: a client contact email or phone, the fee, and a date.

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