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 planThe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody is hounded. The sequence is short, it stops the moment they act, and it stops anyway if they do not.
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.
SMSAn 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.
EmailA 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.
WhatsAppOne 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 reviewAsked 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 matterThree 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 endsReview 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BOOK A DEMOWhat partner firms ask before they let the system start asking on their behalf.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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