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Workflows

Automate Legal Intake: From Inquiry to Attorney Review

When a prospective client contacts a law firm, the clock starts running immediately. In legal services, responsiveness often determines whether a firm signs a desirable matter or loses it to the...

Kurt Fischman, Founder of MarshalKurt FischmanSep 24, 2026
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AI Agents

How to Build an Honest AI Business Case

Most AI business cases presented to business owners are built on an accounting illusion. A vendor or internal advocate tallies up minutes saved across routine tasks, multiplies that time by an...

Kurt Fischman, Founder of MarshalKurt FischmanSep 22, 2026
25Oct 2025
GEO

Mentions > Links: A New "Ranking" System for AI Search

In AI search, brand mentions across authoritative sources matter more than backlinks. LLMs do not follow hyperlinks to assign authority. They evaluate mention frequency, sentiment polarity, and...

Kurt Fischman · Oct 25, 2025

25Oct 2025
GEO

Use Public Repos to Pull Your Company into ChatGPT Answers

Public repositories on GitHub, Hugging Face, and Zenodo function as training-data pipelines that large language models ingest during pre-training and fine-tuning. This article details how to...

Kurt Fischman · Oct 25, 2025

23Oct 2025
GEO

Answer Shapes 101

Answer shapes are the structural patterns AI systems use to format responses

Kurt Fischman · Oct 23, 2025

Let's get back tothe work of humans⁠1

Machine-like is the services layer that bridges frontier AI and business operations.