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Law firms switch from Scorpion to Pioneerly when they want to take their growth to the next level and build a complete case acquisition system with a partner that shares their goals and values.

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Scorpion

Pioneerly

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Assessed September 2026

Built to be a level above marketing agencies

Pioneerly vs. Scorpion

Compared on

Pioneerly

Grow My Practice

Scorpion

RevenueMAX and services

Focus on law firms

Law firms only

Your main point of contact

Dedicated Growth Counsel

Account manager and team

Fractional CMO support

Included on the Scale plan

Market exclusivity

One firm per practice area, per market

Contract type

Month to month

12 months for SEO and technology

Results guarantee

Positive return within 90 days, or we work free

Scope flexibility

Priorities can change month to month

Set by the agreement; ads month to month

Ownership of assets and data

Yours from day one

Proprietary market intelligence

5,000+ law firms tracked across all 50 states

Signed cases and revenue tracking

From first click to signed case

Revenue Intelligence

Marketing spend transparency

Full visibility into where your marketing budget goes. Ad spend is paid directly from your accounts to the platforms.

Reported through Scorpion's dashboard

Last reviewed: September 2026
Scorpion information is based on its publicly available pages: law firm marketing, RevenueMAX, marketing team, and its FAQ. A dash means we found no stated policy there. Terms can change, so confirm current details directly with Scorpion.

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What is Grow My Practice by Pioneerly?

Grow My Practice is a monthly plan by Pioneerly that builds a complete case acquisition system for your law firm.

It covers

  1. Digital marketing Strategy and execution across the channels that can bring your firm cases: SEO, AI search, Google Ads and LSAs, organic and paid social, reputation, content, email, and more.
  2. Intake optimization We improve how your firm responds to, qualifies, follows up with, and converts new inquiries, so more of the right leads become consultations and signed clients.
  3. Growth advisory Ongoing strategic support on growth decisions, marketing performance, case economics, budgeting, vendors, new opportunities, and where your firm should invest next.

The entire marketing playbook is built just for your firm by your dedicated Growth Counsel, an experienced legal marketing and growth operator who coordinates all work for your firm and is accountable for results.

Your Growth Counsel can also advise you day to day on everything from strategic planning to evaluating other vendors and making better business decisions for your firm.

We measure performance in cost per case, case-type distribution and lead quality, not vanity metrics like traffic, views, or likes.

The core difference

Scorpion manages your marketing.Pioneerly takes your firm's growth to the next level without compromising its mission or values.

Scorpion

A marketing company with a broad menu of services and technology

You hire Scorpion to manage selected parts of your marketing. Their teams execute those services, optimize campaigns, and report on performance. The relationship is a typical one for a big agency, and it's primarily centered on the marketing Scorpion runs for your firm.

Pioneerly

A close growth partner responsible for the whole path from marketing spend to signed cases

We start with the cases your firm wants, what they're worth, and what needs to happen for acquiring more of them to make financial sense. Then we build and manage the system around that goal: marketing channels, positioning, intake, conversion, measurement, and the decisions about where your firm should invest next.

Your Growth Counsel leads that work and is accountable for how the pieces perform together.

How Pioneerly works

  1. Firm goals
  2. Priority case types
  3. Case economics
  4. Marketing strategy
  5. Lead generation
  6. Intake
  7. Signed cases
  8. Revenue

We don't measure success by whether individual marketing channels performed well. We measure whether your firm acquired the right cases at economics that make sense, and whether you feel your firm stays true to its identity and values while scaling up.

Pioneerly is the support system for law firms with big ambitions.

The Pioneerly team in Washington, DC

We built Pioneerly to give law firm owners a better alternative to traditional legal marketing agencies and the cost and complexity of building a large in-house marketing team.

  • We stay close to your firm and learn how it operates
  • You have a true expert - a Growth Counsel - in your corner at all times
  • We make better decisions for our clients because we've built our own market intelligence
  • We think and report in terms of signed cases and revenue, not vanity metrics

We take your firm's goals and values as seriously as you do, bring exceptional expertise and integrity, and care about both the results and the relationship.

That's what Pioneerly is all about.

Piotr Szalkiewicz Matt Sarson

Founding partners

Work directly with a dedicated Growth Counsel

Your Growth Counsel is an experienced practice growth and legal marketing expert who leads the Pioneerly team working toward your firm's goals and is accountable for the results.

Your trusted advisor

Rely on your Growth Counsel to understand performance across all of your marketing, evaluate vendors, and make better-informed growth decisions.

Direct access

Reach your Growth Counsel anytime by phone, Slack, email, or WhatsApp.

Piotr Szalkiewicz

Piotr

Growth Counsel, Managing Partner

Chair, American Attorney Marketing Association

  • Personal Injury
  • Mass Tort
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Healthcare Law
  • Business / Corporate Litigation
  • Immigration
  • Multi-practice
  • and more
Marcus Bennett

Marcus

Growth Counsel, Partner

  • Criminal Defense
  • Immigration
  • Civil Rights
  • Personal Injury
  • Multi-practice
  • and more
Richard Hale

Richard

Growth Counsel, Partner

  • Business Litigation
  • Employment Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Data Privacy
  • Tax
  • Real Estate
  • Multi-practice
  • and more
Claire Voss

Claire

Growth Counsel, Partner

  • Family Law
  • Divorce
  • Estate Planning
  • Probate
  • Elder Law
  • Multi-practice
  • and more
Elliot Hensley

Elliot

Growth Counsel, Partner

  • Medical Malpractice
  • Personal Injury
  • Product Liability
  • Cybersecurity
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Multi-practice
  • and more
Matt Sarson

Matt

Growth Counsel, Co-Founder

  • Personal Injury
  • Real Estate
  • Bankruptcy
  • Estate Planning
  • Intellectual Property
  • Multi-practice
  • and more
$600M+ in lifetime revenue generated for clients by our Growth Counsels
Market exclusivity

Pioneerly only works with one firm
per practice area, per market

When a firm subscribes, the seat for its practice area and market is taken. One firm gets our market intelligence, our playbooks, and our team. Everyone else in that market gets told no.

01

One seat per practice area, per market. A personal injury seat and a family law seat in the same city are different seats.

02

The Growth plan locks your primary market. The Scale plan locks both primary and secondary markets.

03

Seats don't reopen until a client leaves. But our clients don't leave.

Terms of Service Excerpt

Market Exclusivity.

Pioneerly shall not accept or serve any law firm competing with an active client in the same practice area, within the market covered by the client's plan.

Growth plan: your primary market. Scale plan: primary and secondary markets.
In writing

Seat openWe can take your firm on. Once you subscribe, the seat is no longer available.

Seat takenWe already work with a competing firm. We can't take you on while they're a client.

Grow My Practice

Everything your firm needs to acquire more of the right cases

01

A dedicated Growth Counsel

A senior legal growth operator who knows your firm, sets the direction, leads the team, and stays accountable for results. Direct line by phone, email, Slack, or WhatsApp. On the Scale plan, your Growth Counsel steps in as your fractional CMO.

02

Marketing across the channels that matter

We build the right mix around the cases you want more of, then manage it end to end. SEO, AI search, Google Ads and LSAs, paid and organic social, reputation, content, webinars, email, and out-of-home are used where they make economic sense.

03

Intake that converts more leads into clients

We improve what happens between the first call or form submission and the signed client. Leads are routed quickly, follow-up gets tighter, missed opportunities are recovered, and on Scale we audit and rebuild the intake process with your team.

04

Decisions based on market data and case economics

We combine Pioneerly's proprietary demand, cost, and competition data across 50 states and 5,000+ firms with your case values, margins, capacity, and historical performance. That gives us a clearer view of where growth is actually worth pursuing.

05

Growth advice beyond marketing

Use us as a sounding board for the decisions that shape the firm: budget allocation, case-type priorities, market expansion, forecasting, and evaluating other vendors. You get an experienced operator in the room, not just a marketing report.

06

Senior specialists, working as one team

Your firm gets senior specialists across the disciplines the plan requires, all working from the same priorities and numbers. Every channel lead has at least ten years of experience running that channel at scale.

EXCLUSIVE TO PIONEERLY CLIENTS

Access to the Pioneerly Attorney Referral Network

When a referral opportunity comes through our network and matches your practice and market, we make the introduction.

Explore the Referral Network
  • Client-only access
  • No per-case fees
  • Priority access available

Signed-case and revenue data

We use the numbers to decide what happens next

Reporting is useful only when it leads to better decisions.

Scorpion tracks signed cases and revenue too. The difference is what happens with that data.

Your Growth Counsel uses it to shift budget, change which cases you go after, fix intake before spending more, and decide where the firm should invest next. We keep doing that until the economics improve.

That is also what our 90-day ROI guarantee is built around: a positive return within 90 days, or we keep working for free until you get it.

How the 90-day guarantee works

  1. Marketing spendWhere the money went
  2. Qualified consultationsThe right cases reaching intake
  3. Signed casesWhich sources produced retainers
  4. Cost per signed caseWhat each signed case cost
  5. Case value and revenueWhat those cases are worth to the firm
  6. Feeds next month's planBudget and strategy changesWhat we change next, with your partners

Build a better case acquisition system.

Tell us about your firm and your goals. We'll give you our honest take on how to get there.

When firms outgrow the agency model

Why law firms switch from Scorpion to Pioneerly

Usually, it isn't because Scorpion stopped doing the basics. It's because the firm wants more senior involvement, more accountability for growth, and a closer relationship with a partner that shares its goals and values, not just an agency it retains to manage marketing.

Direct access to a senior growth operator

You work directly with the person setting the strategy, leading the team, and answering for the result. No account-manager layer between your partners and the person making the calls.

Real market exclusivity

Pioneerly works with one firm per practice area per market. We won't use what we learn from your firm to help the competitor across the street.

Month-to-month, not locked in

Pioneerly is month-to-month. You stay because the work is producing value, not because a contract says you have to.

Advice beyond marketing

Your Growth Counsel can help with case mix, budgets, markets, intake, other vendors, and bigger growth decisions. The goal isn't just better marketing. It's a stronger firm.

You own what we build

Your website and marketing assets should belong to your firm. We build on platforms you control, so leaving Pioneerly doesn't mean rebuilding your digital presence from scratch.

Marketing and intake work as one system

More leads don't matter if the right cases aren't signing. We look at what happens after the lead comes in and improve the path from inquiry to consultation to signed case.

Most firms don't switch because they're looking for a different agency. They switch because they want a closer relationship with a partner that's more involved in the growth of the firm and takes responsibility beyond marketing.

What to ask before you switch

Questions to ask before choosing Pioneerly or Scorpion

We’ve put our answers here so you know exactly what you’re getting with Pioneerly.

  1. Who will I actually work with day to day?

    Pioneerly: A named Growth Counsel who leads the work for your firm and is reachable directly by phone, email, Slack, or WhatsApp.

  2. Who decides where my marketing budget goes?

    Pioneerly: Your Growth Counsel. We move budget based on cost per signed case, case value, and what your firm wants more of.

  3. Can you show me which marketing actually turns into signed cases and revenue?

    Pioneerly: We track leads from first touch to signed case and revenue using call tracking and your CRM or case management system.

  4. What do you actually do with intake, beyond reporting on it?

    Pioneerly: We qualify, route, follow up with, and book leads, and we recover missed calls. On Scale, we also audit the intake process, fix what’s not working, and train your team.

  5. Will you also work with one of my direct competitors?

    Pioneerly: No. We work with one firm per practice area per market, and it’s written into our Terms of Service.

  6. Who owns the website, ad accounts, content, analytics, and data?

    Pioneerly: Your firm does, from day one. Everything is built in your name.

  7. What happens to everything if I leave?

    Pioneerly: Nothing has to be handed back or rebuilt just because you leave. The website, accounts, content, and data are already yours.

  8. How long am I locked in for?

    Pioneerly: You’re month to month after a free 7-day onboarding period. You can cancel anytime, and the 90-day ROI guarantee applies from the start.

  9. Will you help me make growth decisions beyond marketing campaigns?

    Pioneerly: Yes. Your Growth Counsel works with your partners on budgets, case priorities, market expansion, vendors, forecasts, and other decisions that affect growth.

Have another question? Schedule a call with us.

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The fit check

We're selective about the firms we take on. It's the only way we can put a 90-day ROI guarantee in writing.

Grow My Practice is for you if…

It's not for you if…

Stage

You run an established firm with $2M+ in annual revenue, and you want to grow dynamically while keeping revenue predictable month to month.

You're pre-launch or still landing your first clients. That stage needs a different playbook. We built Launch My Practice for it.

Setup

You're done switching agencies and consultants. You want one reliable growth partner that specializes in your practice area. The quality of the relationship matters to you.

You're looking for another vendor to add to your marketing mix and manage yourself.

Scoreboard

You judge marketing the way you judge a case: on outcomes. Signed clients, cost per case, revenue you can trace to the dollar.

You'd be satisfied with website traffic, social media followers, and ad click reports.

Speed

When something is clearly working, you move quickly. You want to get started this month, not spend weeks going through internal reviews.

Your decision-making process tends to move slowly, with many steps and pauses along the way.

If the right-hand column describes where your firm is today, Grow My Practice is not the right fit for you.

If the left-hand column reads like you wrote it yourself, we should talk.

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Retain Pioneerly

Growth

Best for: firms between $2M and $12M in annual revenue that want fast, dependable growth.

Parallel workstreamsiEach workstream is a full, dedicated virtual team — senior specialists across every skill your firm needs — working on your growth in parallel. One
Case referralsiWhen a case in our network is a good fit for your firm, we send it your way. Priority puts you first in line for the best-matched cases. Standard
Ad spend managed freeiNo cap on your ad budget. We manage your campaigns at no charge up to $10K/mo in ad spend; a 5% management fee applies above that. First $10K/mothen a 5% fee
Market exclusivityiWe don’t take on competing firms in your practice area within your covered market. On the Growth plan, exclusivity covers your primary market. Primary market
Free 7-day onboardingiYou won’t be charged when you subscribe. The first seven days are for onboarding and setup, and your first monthly payment will be charged automatically after that. Yes
Results guaranteeiA positive return on your spend within 90 days, or we keep working free until you get it. 90 days

Who runs your growth

  • A dedicated Growth Counsel — a senior growth operator who leads your strategy and owns your results
  • Direct access by email, Slack, or WhatsApp — no account managers, no sales team
  • A full senior legal marketing team behind them, reshaped each month around your biggest opportunities

Getting found

  • SEO that ranks your firm for the case types you actually want
  • AI search (AEO) that gets your firm recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude
  • Local SEO that puts your firm on Google Maps across your market
  • Google Ads with conversion tracking tied to revenue, not clicks
  • Paid social on Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit
  • Out-of-home campaigns in your local market

Getting chosen

  • Articles, guides, video, and social content that build your authority
  • Webinars and virtual events, fully produced for you
  • Email and newsletters that keep your firm top of mind
  • Client reviews, video testimonials, and reputation management
  • Referral and partnership programs, built and managed
  • Attorney recognition: awards, media interviews, and speaking opportunities

Getting booked

  • A website and landing pages built to turn visitors into consultations
  • Every new lead captured, qualified, and routed — warm ones straight to your intake team, the rest into nurturing sequences
  • Consultations booked straight onto your calendar
  • Missed calls recovered, old and cold leads won back

Seeing exactly what’s working

  • An executive dashboard with a bird’s-eye view of all your marketing performance
  • Every lead tracked from first click to signed case and revenue
  • Plain monthly reporting: signed cases, cost per case, and return on spend
  • Your whole marketing stack — tools chosen, set up, and managed for you

Strategy, intelligence & compliance

  • Pioneerly’s proprietary market intelligence — live demand, cost, and competition data no other legal marketing firm has
  • Your ideal clients and highest-value case types, clearly defined
  • Positioning and messaging that set your firm apart from competitors
  • Ongoing market research for your practice areas
  • Every campaign kept within state bar, ABA, and federal advertising rules
Free 7-day onboarding 90-day positive return guarantee Senior-only team Month to month, cancel anytime

Is your firm above $50M in annual revenue? Talk to us about a custom plan.

Our written guarantee

A positive return within 90 days, or we keep working for free.

If your firm doesn't see a positive return on the Grow My Practice subscription within 90 days of starting, we continue working at no cost until you do.


We can afford to put this in writing for one reason: we don't take on firms we aren't confident we can grow.

What your first 30 days with Pioneerly look like

  1. Within 24 hours, your dedicated Growth Counsel is assigned. They'll become your main point of contact, own the growth plan, and stay close to what's happening inside your firm.

  2. We start with the numbers that matter: where your cases come from, which cases are worth the most, what they cost to acquire, where leads are being lost, and what's limiting growth today.

  3. Your Growth Counsel and team audit your marketing, intake, competitors, and market. We look for immediate opportunities, weak points, and places where your firm is leaving good cases or revenue on the table.

  4. We agree on the priorities most likely to move the firm forward, then start executing. Quick wins come first. Bigger initiatives begin immediately behind them.

  5. We track what happens all the way through to signed cases and revenue. If something's working, we push harder. If it's not, we change course. You don't wait until the end of the quarter to find out.

  6. Your Growth Counsel stays close throughout the month. You can reach them directly on Slack, WhatsApp, or email to discuss results, case quality, new opportunities, or anything happening inside the firm.

Scorpion vs Pioneerly: frequently asked questions

Yes, if you're comparing firms that can run your law firm's marketing. But Pioneerly isn't built as a traditional marketing agency. Scorpion provides marketing services and technology. Pioneerly takes a broader role in the growth of the firm, with a dedicated Growth Counsel leading strategy, marketing, intake, and growth decisions in one plan.

The biggest difference is the role Pioneerly takes inside the firm. Scorpion manages marketing through its platform and service teams. Pioneerly starts with your growth goals and case economics, then your Growth Counsel leads the marketing, intake, budget decisions, and broader growth strategy around them. The relationship is month to month, includes market exclusivity, and comes with a 90-day ROI guarantee.

Yes. Scorpion's Revenue Intelligence reports signed cases by marketing source and cost per signed client, and its RevenueMAX materials describe integrations with Clio, Filevine, and LeadDocket. Pioneerly tracks signed cases and revenue too, but we don't treat that data as the end product. Your Growth Counsel uses it to change budgets, improve intake, adjust the case mix, and decide where the firm should invest next. That's also what our 90-day ROI guarantee is built around.

Pioneerly covers the core channels you'd expect, including SEO, AI search, Google Ads, Local Services Ads, social and video advertising, websites, landing pages, reputation, and content. We also run channels Scorpion's law firm pages don't prominently list, including out-of-home campaigns, webinars and virtual events, email and newsletters, press and awards, and referral programs. The bigger difference is that Grow My Practice isn't a menu of channels. We choose and manage the mix around the case types your firm wants more of.

Scorpion websites run on Scorpion's own platform. Its FAQ says that after you fulfill the contract, you receive key accounts, website content, design assets, and static files, but the platform itself stays with Scorpion. That means the site needs to be rebuilt elsewhere if you leave. With Pioneerly, your website is built on a platform your firm owns from day one, and the content, ad accounts, analytics, and data are yours too.

According to Scorpion's FAQ, you receive the domain-level accounts, website content, design assets, and static files, then rebuild the site on another content management system. If you're switching, that rebuild needs to be planned before the old site comes down. If you move to Pioneerly, we handle the transition alongside the takeover of your live marketing so the move doesn't become another project for your team to manage.

Scorpion puts a lot of intake functionality into its technology, including AI call and chat handling, scheduling, lead scoring, and inbox tools. Pioneerly takes a more hands-on role in the intake process itself. We qualify, route, follow up with, and book leads, recover missed calls and cold leads, and can use AI where it makes sense for your firm. On Scale, we also audit and rebuild the process with your team, write scripts, review calls, and train staff.

Scorpion has a formal relationship with Clio and connects Clio, Filevine, and LeadDocket to its Revenue Intelligence reporting. Pioneerly works with Clio as part of a broader systems approach: we connect lead management and reporting across the tools your firm already uses, and can also build AI agents on platforms such as Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball, and NetDocuments. The goal isn't to move you into our ecosystem. It's to make your existing systems work together around growth.

No. Pioneerly works with one firm per practice area in each market and declines competing firms while a client holds that seat. On the Growth plan, that covers your primary market. On Scale, it covers your primary and secondary markets. The commitment is written into our Terms of Service. Scorpion doesn't publish a comparable exclusivity policy on its site.

Scorpion's FAQ says it typically requires a 12-month contract for its marketing technology and certain services such as SEO, while advertising services are typically month to month. Pioneerly is month to month. There's a free 7-day onboarding period before the first charge, you can cancel anytime, and the 90-day ROI guarantee applies from the start: if your firm doesn't see a positive return within 90 days, we keep working free until it does.

Schedule a risk-free consultation with a Growth Counsel

Tell us where your firm is today and where you want it to be. We'll give you our honest take on how to get there and whether Grow My Practice is the right fit for you.

You can also message us directly or email us:hello@pioneerly.com.