Proof AI pays

Five clients had moved when the firm reported about 20% immediate time savings—useful evidence, with the 30–50% longer-term gain still only projected.

A vendor-reported 90-day result: 1,700+ calls handled, 184 appointments booked and about $230,000 in production captured across two offices.

Vendor-reported results show faster discovery drafts, more demands and more complaints after the firm trained AI on its own conventions.

Landing Point put private, governed AI inside its ATS—returning recruiter time while keeping client and candidate data under firm control.

Private Client — 12-person RIA: associates used AI for client emails and meeting notes; no FINRA-aware policy or recordkeeping map.

Private Client — 35-person professional services firm ran Shadow-AI Risk Assessment then Workflow ROI Audit. Risk register first, costed roadmap second.

Wanted legal AI; found shadow ChatGPT on matter research. Governance before purchase.

Licensed Copilot, shadow ChatGPT on client work. Governance before tax season.

Three pilots, zero baselines. Five-point readiness gate — free review in, paid audit out.

Anonymized managed-services firm: no content team, no six-week SEO retainer. A governed research-to-publish loop — human approval, machine tempo — plus technical SEO to 91.

Anonymized consulting client: crawl disaster, six-week four-figure quote. I fixed it in seconds, scored 91, and billed a fraction of the traditional SEO invoice.