Built for criminal defense attorneys
Families call in crisis at 11pm on a Friday. If they hit your voicemail, they call the next firm. Anchor Co AI responds in under 60 seconds — capturing the intake, qualifying the case, and notifying your on-call attorney before your competitors even see a missed call.
The problem
An arrest happens Friday at 8pm. The family needs to retain someone before the arraignment. They call six firms. The one who responds at 9pm gets the retainer. You find out Monday.
Arraignments happen fast. Evidence gets preserved or lost. Witnesses are interviewed. The defense attorney who is retained within 24 hours of an arrest can do things the one retained 3 days later cannot.
Arrests happen on weekends. DUI stops happen at midnight. Your competition has answering services and chatbots handling after-hours inquiries 24/7. Every hour your phones are unmanned, you're losing cases.
A family member's first emotion when calling a defense attorney is panic. If they hit voicemail, they hang up and call the next firm. An immediate text response — even just 'we received your call' — keeps them engaged.
The solution
Our system is trained for criminal defense intake — arrest scenarios, charge types, arraignment urgency, and bilingual families in crisis. It responds, qualifies, and escalates before the caller dials the next firm.
Trained on your criminal defense services. Handles arrest intake, qualifies charge type, captures arraignment timelines, and books consultations automatically — even at midnight on a Saturday.
A family calls about a Friday-night arrest and hits your voicemail. A text fires in under 60 seconds, opens the intake conversation, and keeps them from calling your competitor.
After every resolved case, the system sends a review request. More reviews, higher ranking, more families searching 'criminal defense attorney near me' finding you first.
How it works
Can't answer. This is a $5,000–$25,000 retainer calling. The firm that acknowledges the call within 60 seconds gets the intake conversation.
"Hi, this is [Firm]. We received your urgent call. Is this about a recent arrest? We have an attorney on call for emergencies. Please share the situation briefly." Conversation opens immediately.
Charge type, jurisdiction, arraignment date, defendant name — captured immediately. High-urgency alerts (arraignment in 24 hours) go to your on-call attorney's phone in real time.
Founding-client pricing
Foundation: website + hosting + AI chatbot + Google Business Profile + missed-call text-back. Growth adds local SEO, invoicing, and scheduling at $997/mo. Full Office adds a 24/7 AI phone receptionist at $1,497/mo.
Yes. We configure bilingual intake — Spanish and English. The chatbot detects language preference and responds in kind. For criminal defense, this is critical in many markets.
The chatbot can acknowledge calls from defendants and route to an appropriate intake flow — collect their name, charge, jail location, and get a family member to call back. It won't replace the collect call, but it can start the intake before the attorney engages.
Yes. Each practice area gets its own intake flow with relevant qualifying questions. DUI inquiries get BAC, prior record, field sobriety questions. White collar gets employer, agency, and document preservation questions.
The chatbot collects general facts — no privileged communication is established until your attorney engages. We include appropriate disclaimers your firm reviews and approves before the chatbot goes live.
Month-to-month on every tier. No contract, no cancellation fee. You keep your data if you leave.
Text-back fires the day you sign on. No setup fee. No contract. 30-day refund guarantee.
Matt Henry · Anchor Co AI · Pacific, MO
See it before you buy it
No slideshow, no actor. A screen recording of our own assistant handling the two questions every owner asks: what happens to the 9pm call I miss, and will it invent things about my business.
Real answers from our live demo bot — unscripted, recorded on this site.
Visitor: I run an HVAC company. A customer calls at 9pm and I can't pick up — what happens?
Anchor Co AI: Right now? They hit voicemail and you've lost them to whoever picks up first. With our chatbot, they hit your website at 9pm, ask “Do you do emergency service?” or “Are you licensed in my county?” — and get an instant answer. The bot captures their name, number, and address. You wake up to a lead instead of a missed call. That's the whole thing: your customers get answers 24/7, you only deal with the calls that actually need you, and you're not losing jobs to competitors who answer faster. Since you're in HVAC, the bot can handle all the common questions — licensing by county, service area, whether you do emergency calls, minimum job size, how long estimates take. You train it on your website in about 10 minutes, and it goes live in an afternoon. Want to try it? You can start free at anchorcoai.com/signup — no credit card required. Test it on your actual website for 14 days and see if it captures leads you would've missed.
Visitor: Will it make stuff up about my business?
Anchor Co AI: No. The bot only answers from what you've given it — your website content, your FAQs, pricing, service areas, whatever you add. If a question falls outside that (something the bot doesn't know), it's honest about it. Instead of guessing, it says “I don't have that info” and asks for their name and contact details so you can follow up personally. It won't make up licensing claims, pricing, or service details. That's the safeguard. Your bot is only as smart as the information you feed it — which means you stay in control of what it says about your business. Honestly the easiest way to see if it works for your business is to just try it. Free plan, no card. anchorcoai.com/signup
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