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What a serious engagement actually costs.

Published openly, because premium work has nothing to hide.

Most lawyer SEO agencies hide their pricing until they have you on a sales call. Citorian publishes it. Engagements start at $8,500 per month and scale with practice area competitiveness and market scope. Three-month minimum. One firm per practice area, per metro. The numbers below are the real ranges, not anchors designed to make a sales rep's quote feel reasonable.

Pricing at a glance

Lawyer SEO and GEO with Citorian costs $8,500 to $20,000+ per month, depending on practice area competitiveness and market scope. Every engagement carries a three-month minimum, then continues month to month with no long-term lock-in. One firm per practice area, per metro. Every account is run by a senior strategist, not a junior account manager.

From $8,500/mo
Entry tier, single market
3 months
Minimum term, then monthly
No setup fee
Monthly investment is all-in
Why we publish pricing. Transparency filters correctly. Firms below the investment threshold self-select out before wasting a strategy call. Firms above it arrive already understanding that premium, senior-led, exclusive work carries a premium price. That is the audience Citorian is built for, and the pricing is part of the qualification, not a barrier to it.
Engagement Tiers

Three tiers, scoped to your market.

Every tier runs the full Audit, Build, and Rank methodology, with a senior strategist on the account. The tier reflects the competitiveness of your practice area and the scope of your market, not the level of attention you receive.

Single Market
From $8,500per month · 3-month minimum
One practice area, one metro. Best for boutique firms in less saturated markets establishing dominant organic and AI search visibility.
  • Full Audit, Build, Rank methodology
  • GEO across all five major AI engines
  • Technical SEO foundation
  • Practice-area content production
  • Authority engineering program
  • Monthly senior strategist reporting
  • One firm per practice area per metro, guaranteed
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Most common
Competitive Market
From $12,500per month · 3-month minimum
One practice area in a top-15 metro, or two practice areas in one market. Built for firms competing against entrenched, well-funded incumbents.
  • Everything in Single Market
  • Accelerated content velocity
  • Weekly AI citation monitoring
  • Counter-content within 30 days of competitor gains
  • Expanded keyword surface area
  • Competitor citation-share tracking
  • Priority senior strategist access
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Market Leadership
From $20,000per month · 3-month minimum
Multi-location firms, multiple practice areas, or national mass tort campaigns. For firms intent on owning their category across markets.
  • Everything in Competitive Market
  • Multi-location or multi-practice scope
  • National mass tort campaign support
  • Dedicated authority and digital PR program
  • Quarterly in-depth strategy reviews
  • Custom reporting tied to signed-case ROI
  • First access to emerging AI engine optimization
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1.9M → 3.1M
Monthly organic, 15 mo
See what this investment produces The documented track record behind the methodology: a multi-product consumer fintech engagement at $1B+ revenue scale, with the full revenue math and an interactive ROI calculator for your firm.
The Math

Does it pay for itself?

At industry-average legal case economics, the breakeven is low and the upside is large. Here is the framework for a personal injury firm at the entry investment tier. Your specific numbers get calculated on the strategy call using your real case mix and conversion data.

Annual investment
$102K
At the $8,500/month entry tier, the full-year investment for a single-market engagement.
Breakeven
1-3 cases
At an average PI case fee of $40,000 to $120,000, the engagement pays for itself on one to three additional signed cases per year.
Realistic target
Dozens
The target is dozens of additional qualified case calls over the engagement, not the handful required to break even.

Figures are modeled at public industry-standard case economics for illustration. Actual results depend on your firm's current visibility, practice area competitiveness, metro market, intake operations, and conversion infrastructure. No SEO or GEO agency can guarantee specific rankings, traffic, or revenue, including Citorian. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The strategy call produces a specific projection for your firm using your current data.

Cost in context

$8,500 a month, compared to what?

The investment only looks expensive in isolation. Set it next to the alternatives for capturing the same high-intent legal demand, and the picture changes.

Option What it gets you Monthly cost
Google Ads (PPC) The same volume of high-intent legal clicks, but only while you keep paying. Stops the moment the budget stops. Personal injury keywords run $50 to $300+ per click. $30,000+
Senior in-house hire+ tools + benefits One senior SEO who cannot match a senior team's breadth across technical, content, authority, and GEO. Plus $20-40K/year in tools. Plus recruiting risk. ~$16,500
A cheaper agency$1,500 - $4,000/mo Junior account managers, templated content, no GEO layer, and the same playbook sold to your competitors. Cheap because it does not compound. $1,500 - $4,000
Citoriansenior-led, exclusive, GEO-native Full Audit-Build-Rank methodology, GEO across five AI engines, senior strategist on the account, one firm per metro, assets you own that compound after the engagement. From $8,500
Doing nothing Your competitors capture the AI citations and the organic case calls. The cost is invisible on your P&L and very real in your competitors' case count. The cases you lose

The in-house figure assumes a $140K base salary plus ~$40K in payroll burden, tools, and overhead, annualized to roughly $16,500/month, for a single person who still cannot cover the full discipline. Organic and AI search assets built through the engagement keep working after the spend stops, unlike paid search.

Scope your investment

Get the specific number for your firm.

The strategy call produces an exact investment figure and projected return scoped to your practice area, metro, and competitive position.

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Scope

What the investment covers, and what it doesn't.

What every engagement includes

  • GEO visibility assessment across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews
  • Technical SEO foundation: schema, Core Web Vitals, crawl architecture, indexation
  • Practice-area content production, attorney-reviewed
  • Authority engineering on the sources AI engines trust
  • Weekly AI citation monitoring and competitive tracking
  • Monthly senior strategist reporting tied to case calls and signed cases
  • Exclusivity: one firm per practice area, per metro, guaranteed in writing

What Citorian does not do

  • Pay-per-click advertising or paid search management
  • Vanity keyword ranking reports disconnected from revenue
  • Junior account managers between you and the work
  • Templated strategies applied across competing firms
  • Working with multiple firms in the same practice area and metro
  • Long-term lock-in contracts past the initial three-month term
  • Outsourced, generic, unreviewed content

Wondering where this fits in your overall spend? Read what lawyer marketing budgets should actually look like in 2026, including how to balance compounding channels against paid search.

Frequently asked

Investment questions, answered directly.

How much does lawyer SEO and GEO cost with Citorian?
Engagements start at $8,500 per month and range to $20,000 or more per month depending on practice area competitiveness, metro market size, and scope. Single-practice boutique firms in less competitive metros sit at the lower end. Multi-location personal injury and mass tort firms in major markets sit at the higher end. Every engagement carries a three-month minimum term, after which it continues month to month.
Why is the minimum $8,500 per month?
Below roughly $8,500 per month, a senior-led engagement cannot deliver the content velocity, authority engineering, technical work, and weekly AI citation monitoring that produces compounding results in high-CPC legal verticals. Agencies charging less are either using junior staff, templated work, or skipping the GEO layer entirely. The floor protects the quality standard and the senior-led operating model.
Why a three-month minimum contract?
The audit phase runs two weeks. The build phase ships compounding work over weeks three through twelve. A shorter engagement would mean paying for an audit and then disengaging before the work that earns ranking and AI citation visibility actually ships. The three-month minimum aligns the engagement with the work the methodology requires. There is no long-term lock-in past the initial three months.
How do I know the investment pays for itself?
At industry-average case economics, the math is favorable. A personal injury firm at $8,500 per month invests roughly $102,000 per year. At an average PI case fee of $40,000 to $120,000, the engagement breaks even on one to three additional signed cases per year. The realistic target is dozens of additional qualified case calls. The strategy call produces a specific projection for your firm using your current traffic, case mix, and conversion data.
What is included in the monthly investment?
Every engagement includes the full Audit, Build, and Rank methodology: GEO visibility assessment across all five major AI engines, technical SEO foundation work, practice-area content production, authority engineering, weekly AI citation monitoring, and monthly senior strategist reporting tied to qualified case calls and signed cases. Higher tiers add content velocity, dedicated digital PR, and in-person strategy reviews.
What does Citorian not do?
Citorian does not run pay-per-click advertising, does not report vanity keyword rankings disconnected from revenue, does not hand accounts to junior account managers, does not use templated strategies across competing firms, and does not work with multiple firms in the same practice area and metro. The focus is engineered organic and AI search visibility, senior-led, with exclusivity guaranteed in writing.
Are there setup fees or hidden costs?
No setup fees. The monthly investment covers the full engagement. The only potential additional cost is third-party tooling if a firm requests specific premium directory placements or paid press distribution beyond the standard authority program, and those are always disclosed and approved in advance.
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A 45-minute strategy call scopes your engagement to your practice area, your metro, and your competitive position, and produces a specific investment figure and projected return. No prepared deck. No canned pitch. A mutual fit decision.

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