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Managed intake for growing law firms

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Intakes.io is a managed intake service for law firms. We build your intake CRM, connect the channels you use, and manage the follow-up from first reply to signed retainer or closed inquiry.

You approve the messages and screening rules. Legal judgment stays with you.

Follow one inquiry

A fast first reply is only the beginning

Someone with a severance offer contacts three firms on a Tuesday night. One answers and books the consult. Another calls back two days later.

Those are not advertising problems. They are gaps between steps, often spread across several systems and people.

What happens without a dependable process

  • A form arrives after hours and sits in the inbox.
  • Someone books with a lawyer but gets a confirmation from the wrong person.
  • A missed consultation has no rebooking follow-up.
  • The lawyer sends a retainer and nobody checks whether it was signed.
  • A partner sees a lead count but cannot say what became of those inquiries.

What changes with Intakes.io

  • Approved replies and clear next steps on the channels we configure.
  • Booking and reminders connected to the people in your rotation.
  • Follow-up after missed consultations, incomplete forms and unsigned retainers.
  • Operational changes tested and managed as your team and process change.
  • A live view of what's signed, still pending and closed without signing.
ReplyWithin a minute, on the channel they used
Handled by Intakes.io
BookInto your rotation, with reminders
Handled by Intakes.io
Follow upUntil it's signed or closed
Handled by Intakes.io
SignThe lawyer sends the retainer, we chase it
Shared
Legal judgmentWho you take on, and the advice
Stays with you

You keep the legal decisions. We handle the follow-through

Each inquiry has a named member of your team responsible for the next step. Your team can see its status; our job is to keep the supporting process working.

Who takes the caseYour team
Questions and messagesYou approve
Consultations and sending the retainerYour lawyers
When to close an inquiryYour team
Building and connecting the processIntakes.io
Reminders, follow-up and fixesIntakes.io

Every step from the first message to the signed retainer

We build it in your wording. You approve every message, and you can see where each inquiry stands at any time.

Reply and book

First reply, then screen and book

A form, missed call or message gets an approved response and the next step for that channel. Anything requiring judgment is passed to your team.

  • First reply, any hour
  • Consult booking and routing
  • Reminders and no-show rebooking
See first reply and booking
Follow up and sign

Follow through, then send and sign

Reminders, document requests, missed-consultation recovery and questions about next steps follow the rules you approved. Your lawyer sends the retainer, and we follow up on the signature until it is signed or the inquiry is closed.

  • Follow-up after the consult
  • Retainers and e-signature
  • We contact quiet inquiries again, within your rules
See follow-up to signed
See and connect

Signed, pending and lost, whenever you look.

Your dashboard shows signed, pending and lost, live, across the stages configured for your practice. An inquiry that is still open is not treated as lost.

  • Live dashboard
  • Intake CRM with a login for everyone on your team
  • Clio, PracticePanther, Filevine, Smokeball
See reporting

One inquiry, from 9:14 pm to signed

Fictional example. Times illustrate the workflow, not a client record.

A person fills in a web form about a severance offer. The approved reply asks for the details your team needs and offers the next step.

They book an initial consultation in the rotation your team selected. A named person on your team is responsible for the next step.

They miss the consultation. The approved rebooking sequence offers another time, rather than leaving the inquiry in limbo.

After a consultation, your lawyer sends a retainer. The person has a question about the fee. It is routed to your team, not answered as legal advice by an automation.

The signed agreement is recorded, the follow-up stops under the configured rules, and the live reporting reflects the outcome.

Why managed matters

The system needs attention after it goes live

Calendars change. New lawyers join. Screening questions get updated.

Choose based on the work you need covered

Choose it if
Before you choose
Intakes.io
You want the CRM and the team that designs the process, manages the follow-up, resolves operational issues and reviews outcomes with you.
You still approve the rules, assign your people and retain legal judgment.
An answering service
The main problem is handling calls when your staff are busy or unavailable.
Ask who is responsible after the message or booked consultation reaches your team.
Intake software managed by your team
Someone on your staff has the time and ability to configure, maintain and improve the workflows.
Modern products can already capture inquiries, automate follow-up and show reports.
Another intake coordinator
Human conversation and daytime capacity are the main constraints.
Plan for coverage, training, continuity and the supporting systems they still need.
An AI intake builder or receptionist
You want to configure specific automated conversations or screening flows.
Confirm who checks accuracy, handles unexpected situations and keeps those flows current.

Compare the options

We build and test your workflows at launch, then stay responsible for managing them when something changes.

What our team handles

More signed retainers from the inquiries already coming in

One long-running client engagement, 2021 to 2025

In results recorded across a long-running client engagement, annual signed retainers increased from 334 in 2021 to 940 in 2025, while inquiry volume grew approximately 1.6 times over that period. Those figures describe what happened, not how much of the change can be attributed to one service or workflow.

See the results
334 → 940Signed retainers a year, 2021 to 2025
15% → 32%Of consultations held with a lawyer that became signed retainers, 2021 to 2024
46 of 46Form, text and voicemail inquiries answered in under a minute, in a sample of 55 conversations

Built for the firms where every inquiry matters

Intakes.io is a good fit when you have a steady volume of inquiries, several people involved in consultations or follow-up, and too much complexity to manage with a few reminders and a spreadsheet.

01

Employment law firms

Dates, offers, consultations and unsigned agreements.

02

Family law firms

Safe ways to make contact and the right handoff before a consultation.

03

Personal injury and disability firms

Incident dates, insurer documents and agreement follow-up.

04

Multi-practice firms

Different screening questions, rotations and reporting for each area.

If you are looking for a self-service tool to configure yourself, this may not be the right service. If you want the process built and actively managed, we should talk.

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Find out where your inquiries go

Start with a 30-minute conversation about one recent month of intake. We'll identify the gaps we can assess from your process and examples, explain what we'd take over, and outline the next investigation where more evidence is needed.

Integrations

Works with what you already use.

FAQs

Frequently Asked
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