Reputation Management

Reputation management

Every firm knows reviews win the work. Almost nobody actually collects them.

Before anybody instructs you with a Will, an LPA or a probate, they look you up. They are handing over their house, their children's inheritance and their private family arrangements, so they check what other people said about you first. A page of recent five star reviews closes that decision before you have spoken. An old page with eleven reviews, the newest from 2023, quietly loses it. Reputation management is the part of the platform that asks every client for a review at the right moment, chases politely when they forget, and catches the unhappy ones privately before they ever reach a public page.

Included free on every Ai Wills plan

Why five stars matter this much

  • Estate planning is bought on trust, not price, and a stranger's review is the only evidence most enquirers will ever see
  • Star rating and review count are shown directly in Google's local map results, before anyone clicks anything
  • Recency is weighted heavily, so a firm with forty reviews from three years ago looks worse than one with twelve from last month
  • Volume and freshness both feed local search ranking, so reviews put you higher as well as making you look better once you are there
  • AI assistants now summarise a firm's reviews when somebody asks them who to use, and they quote the recent ones
  • A visible rating on your own site lifts conversion on every page it appears on, including your checkout
  • One unanswered one star review sitting at the top of your profile costs you enquiries every single week
  • Referral partners check your reviews before they send you anybody

Why firms never actually get them

  • Asking feels awkward, so it gets left to the end of the meeting and then quietly skipped
  • The person who should ask is a fee earner with billable work, not a marketer
  • By the time somebody remembers, the client has moved on and the goodwill has gone cold
  • Clients genuinely intend to do it, then never open the email again
  • Nobody knows which link to send, or sends one that lands on a profile page with no review box
  • Estate planning clients are older on average and often need the ask on the channel they actually use
  • Firms worry that asking everybody invites the one unhappy client to sound off in public
  • There is no owner, no schedule and no reporting, so it never becomes a habit
  • So the only people who ever leave a review are the two or three who were annoyed
YOUR REPUTATION Example figures 4.9 Overall 312 across all platforms · 23 in the last 30 days ALL ON AUTO WHERE THEY LANDED Google Business Profile 4.9 184 Trustpilot 4.8 71 ReviewSolicitors 4.9 38 Facebook 5.0 19 Came back privately instead Sent to you to fix, never posted publicly 9 LAST NINETY DAYS 248 Asks sent 103 Reviews posted 42% Response rate 0 Asked by your staff

The problem was never that clients will not leave you a review. Most of them are pleased with you and would happily say so. The problem is that nobody asks, nobody asks twice, and nobody asks at the one moment the client actually feels grateful. A system that asks every time, on the channel they read, and keeps asking gently until they either do it or say no, turns a handful of reviews a year into a few every week. It costs you nothing and you never have to have the awkward conversation.

White-label

The reviews are yours. So is everything the client sees.

A review request only works if it reads like a note from the person who just looked after them. So the text comes from your sender name, the email comes from your domain and signature, the page they land on carries your logo, and the profile they post to is your Google, your Trustpilot, your ReviewSolicitors. Ai Wills is the engine sending it. Your client never sees us, and the reputation you build belongs to your firm, permanently.

yourfirm.co.uk/feedback YF YOUR FIRM Your logo, your colours Thank you, Margaret. How did we do with your Will? Tapped 5 POST IT WHERE IT COUNTS G Google T Trustpilot R ReviewSolicitors F Facebook Your Firm Ltd · Every client is asked, whatever they think YOURFIRM Hi Margaret, your Will pack is on its way. If we looked after you, would you tell others? yourfirm.co.uk/fb Of course. You were brilliant. FROM: YOUR FIRM Not from a review app POSTED IN 40 SECONDS YOUR NAME, YOUR PAGE, YOUR PROFILE

Your sending identity

The ask goes out from your authenticated domain and your sender name, with your signature and your unsubscribe footer. If the client replies to it, the reply arrives in your inbox, not ours.

Your own feedback page

The star picker sits on your domain with your logo and colours. No Ai Wills badge, no third party branding, nothing that makes the client wonder who is actually asking them.

Your profiles, your ratings

Reviews post to your Google Business Profile, your Trustpilot, your ReviewSolicitors or VouchedFor page and your Facebook. They count towards your rating and your local ranking, not a shared directory.

Your words, if you want them

The messages are written for you and already sound like a professional firm rather than a marketing blast. Change a line, change the lot, or change nothing and leave it running.

Your replies, posted for you

Every review gets an answer, drafted in your tone and ready for approval, or published automatically if you would rather not read them one by one. Unanswered reviews look worse than no reviews.

Live in a day, free on every plan

Connect your Google and Trustpilot profiles, pick when the ask fires, and it is running. Reputation management is not a paid add-on. It is included on every Ai Wills plan at no extra cost.

Most firms pay a separate subscription for a review tool and still do not use it, because somebody in the office has to remember to press send. Here the ask is already wired to the moment the work completes. Nobody has to remember, nobody has to ask, and it is included free with every plan.

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The journey

From a signed Will on Tuesday to a five star review on Thursday

Nine stages. Your client does two of them and they take under a minute. The platform does the other seven. Nobody in your office is asked to remember anything, and nobody has to have the awkward conversation about reviews.

You do this Runs automatically Your client does this
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You do this

You choose the moment, once

The trigger is whatever counts as a job well done in your firm. A Will marked complete, a document pack posted, an LPA registered, a probate matter closed, an appointment attended, an invoice paid. Pick it once in the settings and it applies to every client from then on, including the ones the platform serves without you.

2
Runs automatically

The trigger fires while the goodwill is still warm

The ask goes out shortly after the moment they felt looked after, not three weeks later when the relief has worn off and they can no longer remember your name. Timing is most of the battle. A request sent the same day converts several times better than one sent a month on.

3
Runs automatically

It checks first whether this client should be asked at all

Somebody who has complained, raised a concern, chased twice about a delay, opted out of marketing, or is going through a bereavement is skipped. So is anyone already asked in the last twelve months. A tactless request to the wrong client at the wrong moment does more harm than no request at all.

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Runs automatically

The ask goes out in your name, on the channel they actually read

Text first for most estate planning clients, because it gets opened in minutes and they are already holding the phone. Email for the ones who prefer it, WhatsApp where you use it. One short, warm, human message from your firm, with one link and nothing else to think about.

5
Your client does this

They tap a star rating on your page

One tap, on your branded page, on a phone, with no account to create and no password to remember. This is the whole reason it works. Ask an eighty year old client to find your Google listing, sign in and compose a paragraph and you will get nothing. Ask them to tap a star and most of them will.

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Runs automatically

The answer decides what happens next

A happy client is passed straight through to the profile that needs reviews most, with the review box already open. A client who was not happy is taken instead to a private form that comes to you. Everyone is asked. Nobody is silenced. The difference is only whether the next screen is a public profile or a private word in your ear. That fork is the whole of the next section.

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Your client does this

They post it, in about forty seconds

They land on your Google Business Profile, Trustpilot, ReviewSolicitors, VouchedFor or Facebook page with the stars already carried across and the box waiting. If they stop halfway and get distracted, they are gently reminded once, and then left alone.

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Runs automatically

The review is answered, and put to work

A reply is drafted in your voice and posted, because a profile where the owner answers every review reads as a firm that is paying attention. The review is then pulled onto your website, your service pages and your checkout, where it does the job of convincing the next enquiry.

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Runs automatically

It keeps going, every week, without anybody driving it

The reason firms have eleven reviews is that reviews were a project instead of a process. This runs on every completed matter for as long as your account is open. Your report shows asks sent, reviews posted, response rate, rating by platform and by team member, and where the gaps are.

The fork

Everybody gets asked. Not everybody ends up on the same screen.

This is the part most firms are nervous about, and it is the part that makes the difference. If a client tells you they were delighted, the quickest thing you can do for them is put the review box in front of them while they still feel it. If a client tells you something went wrong, the last thing that helps anyone is a public page. It should come to you, quickly, while it is still fixable. Same question, same page, two very different next screens.

EVERY CLIENT ASKED No cherry picking who gets it THEY TAP A RATING One tap, on your page HAPPY Straight to the review box Stars carried across, done in a minute NOT HAPPY Private form, tell us what went wrong Public links still shown, never hidden POSTED AND ANSWERED Then pulled onto your website YOU ARE ALERTED Within minutes, with the detail YOU PUT IT RIGHT Before it becomes a complaint THE VAST MAJORITY THE ONES WORTH HEARING ABOUT
Path one

The client who was pleased with you

Most of them. People who have just sorted out something they had been putting off for a decade are, on the whole, relieved and grateful. The only thing standing between that feeling and a public review is friction.

  • The stars they tapped come with them. They arrive at your Google, Trustpilot, ReviewSolicitors, VouchedFor or Facebook page with the rating already set and the box open. No hunting for your listing.
  • They are sent to the profile that needs it most. If your Google reviews are strong but Trustpilot is thin, the next few go to Trustpilot. You are building all of them, not just the easy one.
  • Anyone who does not know what to write is helped. A short prompt suggests what to mention, in their words, never pre-written for them. Blank box paralysis is the single biggest drop off point.
  • If they get distracted, they get one reminder. Half of all reviews are lost between tapping the star and finishing the sentence. One nudge recovers a lot of them. Then it stops.
  • The review is answered and then reused. A reply goes up in your voice, and the review is pulled onto your website, your service pages and your checkout where it earns its keep.
Path two

The client who was not

A small number, and usually about something ordinary and fixable: a document that took longer than they expected, a call that was not returned, an invoice they did not understand. Almost none of it is about the quality of the advice.

  • They are taken to a private form, not a public profile. It asks what went wrong and what would put it right. The tone is an apology and a question, not a survey.
  • It reaches you in minutes. The alert goes to whoever you nominate with the client, the matter, the rating and their own words attached. Not a weekly digest. Now, while it is still recoverable.
  • You get the chance every firm wishes it had. The overwhelming majority of one star reviews were avoidable. The client was annoyed, nobody knew, and the only channel available was public.
  • Nobody is prevented from posting publicly. The public links stay on the page and they remain free to use them. This routes the first response to you, it does not take anything away from the client.
  • The pattern gets reported, not just the incident. If four people in a month mention the same delay, that shows up as a theme rather than four separate irritations that each got smoothed over and forgotten.

Who never gets asked in the first place

A review request is a small thing that lands in somebody's real life, so the system checks the record before it sends. When any of these is true the ask is suppressed, held, or routed to a person to decide. Getting this wrong is how a well meant automation turns into an upset client.

An open complaint or unresolved concern on the matter
A live bereavement or a recent death in the family
A chase or a delay logged in the last few weeks
Any note on the record about vulnerability
Marketing consent withdrawn, or a previous opt out
Already asked for a review in the last twelve months
A fee dispute or an invoice in arrears
A matter referred out and still with the other firm
A case flagged as contentious or in dispute
Anything a fee earner has manually marked do not contact

The commercial point is simple. Firms that ask everybody and route the unhappy answers to themselves end up with two things at once: a public rating that reflects the majority who were genuinely well served, and a private early warning system for the minority who were not. Firms that ask nobody end up with a page of eleven reviews, three of which are from the only people motivated enough to find the listing unprompted, and those three are rarely the fans.

Where they go to work

Almost nobody leaves a review the first time they are asked

They mean to. They are in the car, or the kettle is on, or the grandchildren have arrived, and by the evening it has gone. One request gets you a handful of reviews. A short, polite sequence across the channels they actually use gets you several times that, and then every review collected is put to work in the four places that decide whether the next person picks you.

Where a five star rating is actually seen

Not on a certificate in reception. In the search result, in the AI answer, and on the page where somebody is deciding whether to give you their money.

will writers near me LOCAL RESULTS Your Firm 4.9 312 reviews Newest review: 2 days ago TOP RESULT A firm down the road 4.2 · 14 reviews · newest 2023 Another local practice 3.8 · 6 reviews · no replies AI ASSISTANT ANSWER Your Firm is the most highly rated option nearby, with 312 reviews averaging 4.9. Recent clients mention clear pricing, quick turnaround and being kept informed. Quoting the reviews you collected, to somebody who never saw your ad AND ON YOUR OWN CHECKOUT Rated 4.9 by 312 clients Shown on the page where they decide whether to pay you

The polite chase that gets the review

Nobody is hounded. The sequence is short, it stops the moment they act, and it stops anyway if they do not.

The same day

A text from your firm, while they still feel looked after. One line, one link, no attachments, no preamble. Sent at a civilised hour rather than the moment the trigger fires at eleven at night.

SMS
Two days later

An email for the ones who prefer reading. From your domain, with your signature, and the same one link. Some clients will never act on a text and will always act on an email.

Email
Five days later

A short WhatsApp nudge, if you use it. Written as a person remembering to follow up, not as a marketing reminder. This is the rung that recovers the ones who genuinely meant to and forgot.

WhatsApp
If they tapped a star and stopped

One reminder with the review box, and nothing else. Half of all reviews are lost between tapping the star and writing the sentence. They are taken back to exactly where they left off with the rating already set.

Resume the review
If a matter closes later

Asked again when there is something new to say. A client who did not review their Will may happily review the LPA, the Executor Toolbox or the probate you handled two years on. Never more than once in twelve months.

Next completed matter
After that, it stops

Three messages and done. No fourth, no fifth, no monthly reminder for the rest of their life. A client who does not want to leave a review is a client, not a target, and pestering them costs you more than the review was worth.

Sequence ends

Higher in the local map results

Review count, rating and recency all feed local search ranking. This is the cheapest way a small firm outranks a bigger one on the search that actually produces enquiries.

Live on your own website

Real reviews pull through onto your home page, your service pages and your checkout, updating themselves. No screenshots, no testimonials somebody typed up in 2022.

Quoted in AI answers

When somebody asks an assistant who to use for a Will in your town, it reads what your clients wrote. Firms with recent, specific, well answered reviews get named. The rest do not.

Attached to your advertising

Star ratings render in your Google and Meta ads and lift click through on the same budget. You are not paying more for traffic, you are losing less of it to the firm that looks safer.

Answered, every one of them

Replies are drafted in your voice and posted for approval, including the difficult ones. A calm, professional answer under a bad review often reads better than the review itself.

Reported so it stays honest

Asks sent, reviews posted, response rate, rating by platform, rating by team member, and every piece of private feedback with what was done about it. You can see whether it is working.

Reviews are the one marketing asset that compounds and cannot be bought. Every completed matter adds to it, it never expires, competitors cannot copy it, and it keeps selling on the days you spend nothing on advertising. The only reason most firms do not have it is that asking was left to a person who had better things to do. This asks for you, every time, at no cost.

Your side of the platform

What you actually see, and the one thing you are expected to act on

The reviews arrive whether you look or not. Your dashboard is there so you know it is working and so the one message that matters, the client who was not happy, reaches a human being while there is still time to do something about it.

Notifications Today
Private feedback, needs a call6 min ago

Mr D Hollis rated 2 stars and used the private form. He says the Will was fine but nobody rang him back about the storage question and he chased twice. No public review has been posted.

To: practice managerCall todayMatter WL-4471
New 5 star review on Google1 hr ago

Margaret A. "Did our mirror Wills from the kitchen table in an evening. Explained everything, no jargon, no hidden costs." Reply drafted and waiting for your approval.

To: marketingApprove replyNow live on your site
Reply posted for you3 hrs ago

Your response to a 4 star Trustpilot review went up automatically after 24 hours with no changes from you. Average time to reply across your profiles is now under a day.

To: marketingNo action needed
Ask suppressed on purpose5 hrs ago

Mrs P Rayner completed her LPA but the record is flagged as a recent bereavement, so no review request was sent. It will be reconsidered in ninety days.

To: teamHeld, not lost
Weekly reputation summaryMonday, 07:00

19 asks sent, 8 reviews posted, 42 per cent response rate, average 4.9. One theme appearing twice this month: clients asking why the document pack took ten days.

To: youTrend flagged

What the system expects from you, and what it does not

Ring the unhappy client. That is the job.

It is usually one or two a month and the call takes ten minutes. Most of them are surprised anybody noticed, and a decent number end up leaving a good review afterwards anyway.

Approve replies, or let them post themselves

Drafted answers sit for a day so you can change them. If nobody touches them they go up as written, which is how firms with no marketing person still end up with every review answered.

Set it up once, change it whenever

Trigger point, timing, channels, which profile gets the next review, who the private feedback goes to. Ten minutes at the start, and then only if you want to change something.

You are not asked to remember anything

No monthly review push, no reminder on the team meeting agenda, no fee earner having to ask a client face to face. The trigger does it, on every matter, forever.

See it running on a real account

We will show you the trigger, the branded feedback page, the private route, the replies and the reporting on a live sub-account, and what the same setup would look like under your firm's name. Reputation management is included free on every Ai Wills plan, so there is nothing extra to buy.

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Common questions

Reviews on autopilot, answered

What partner firms ask before they let the system start asking on their behalf.

What actually sets the request off?

You choose the moment once and it then applies to every client. Most firms pick the point the work visibly lands: a Will marked complete, a document pack posted, an LPA registered, a probate matter closed, an appointment attended or an invoice paid. From then on nobody has to remember to ask, because the completed job is the trigger.

Does anything carry the Ai Wills name?

No. The message comes from your sender name, the rating page sits on your domain with your logo and colours, and the review lands on your own profile. Your client sees their adviser asking how it went, not a review app they have never heard of. That matters, because a request that looks like software gets ignored.

Which review sites can the reviews go to?

Google Business Profile, Trustpilot, Facebook, and the professional directories your clients actually check before instructing: ReviewSolicitors for law firms and VouchedFor for financial and mortgage advisers. You can weight the split towards whichever profile most needs volume or fresher reviews, and change it whenever you like.

Is everybody asked, or only the clients you expect to be happy?

Everybody is asked, in the same way, through the same process, whatever you think they are going to say. Rating well does not unlock the review link and rating badly does not remove it. The public review options stay on the page for every client, and nothing is hidden from anyone based on how they answered. Selectively asking only the happy ones breaches Google's review policies and sits badly with UK consumer law, so the system is not built to do it.

What stops a bereaved or already unhappy client being asked?

A set of checks runs before anything sends. A request is held back where there is an open complaint, a recent bereavement, a logged delay or chase, a vulnerability note on the record, withdrawn marketing consent, a fee dispute, a contentious matter, or a review already requested in the last twelve months. Where a case is borderline it waits for a person to decide rather than sending anyway.

What happens when a client says they were not happy?

They are offered a private feedback form as well, and whatever they write reaches your nominated team member within minutes, with the client, the matter, the rating and their own words attached. The point is not to keep them quiet, it is that you hear about a problem while it is still a phone call rather than a complaint. The public review links remain open to them throughout.

Who replies to the reviews once they are posted?

A reply is drafted for every review in your firm's tone and held for you to approve. Amend it, rewrite it or leave it, and if you have not touched it within twenty four hours it publishes as drafted. An unanswered review reads as a firm that has stopped paying attention, and answering every one is the part most firms intend to do and never get round to.

What if somebody posts a bad review anyway?

You are alerted straight away and a measured reply is drafted for you. Nobody can take a genuine review down, and a flawless five point zero with no critical reviews at all reads as suspicious to buyers anyway. A handful of lower ratings answered calmly and in public does more for trust than a perfect score, and steady new reviews push an old bad one down the page far faster than arguing with it ever will.

How many reviews should we realistically expect?

It follows your completed matters rather than any promise we can sensibly make, so a firm finishing ten jobs a month sees a very different number to one finishing a hundred. What reliably changes is the response rate, because the ask goes out the same day rather than weeks later, it takes one tap rather than a login, and it follows up politely instead of being sent once and forgotten. Most firms are starting from almost nothing, so the first ninety days tend to be the biggest jump they will see.

What does it cost, and how soon can we switch it on?

Nothing extra. Reputation management is included on every Ai Wills plan, with no per review charge and no limit on how many clients are asked. Setup is connecting the profiles you want reviews sent to, picking the trigger and approving the wording, which is a single sitting rather than a project.

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