Jake Soffer

Founder and CEO, FirmPilot · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jake Soffer is the founder and CEO of FirmPilot, an AI-driven marketing platform designed to automate SEO, advertising, and content generation for law firms. Prior to FirmPilot, he co-founded Rollio, a natural language processing assistant built for CRMs such as Salesforce.

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Assertion Supported

Soffer: Google Evaluates Life and Money Businesses Differently in Search

“Google evaluates businesses that have to do with your life or your money differently than a bakery or a veterinarian or a landscaping business. The weights and everything are so different and personalized.”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 6:24 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said9 Episodes1

Everything Jake Soffer said on Innovators & Investors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Soffer: Broad horizontal marketing tools cannot succeed across every vertical

“There are so many factors and variables into the rankings, and that's why the first thing I'll tell you is niche down. You just say, we're going to create the best marketing tool for every vertical, every platform. Good luck. It's not going to happen.”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 3:23 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Insight

Jake Soffer: Early-stage CAC and burn metrics matter less than painkiller validation

“I love like the pretty dashboards of looking at CAC and CAC payback and burn multiple and all that stuff. But this early on, not saying that stuff isn't valuable, but it doesn't matter. All that matters is, are you solving a need Are you a painkiller or a vita…”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 8:37 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Opinion

HubSpot Delivers Better SMB Support Than Salesforce's Six-Figure Contracts

“Salesforce, I could argue, is way better CRM. You can customize the heck out of it. You can do whatever you want. But unless you're paying six to seven figures in support, you submit a ticket. You hear back two, three days later, and it's this back and forth c…”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 11:22 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

FirmPilot AI Ranked Law Firm Number One on Google in Six Months

“Six months later, we moved him from the 17th page of Google, irrelevant for the very, very competitive search, Miami Uber accident lawyer. He now ranks number one organically”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 2:31 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Assertion Not checkable as stated

FirmPilot Condenses 12-Month Marketing Agency SEO Experiments Into 15 Minutes

“What we've learned how to do really well with our models is run hundreds and 100,000 of simulations, literally ranking forecasting. We'll create dummy content, dummy ads, and compare it to what's literally in the market, your competitors, before we just send y…”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 4:24 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Assertion Supported

Soffer: Google Evaluates Life and Money Businesses Differently in Search

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 6:24 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Soffer: FirmPilot achieves an SMB renewal rate over 90%

“I would love it if we were completely self-service, but the clients we are dealing with, we realize that empathizing and just having empathy for them is what gets great renewal rates, and which is why we have best in class renewal, 90% plus, especially for SMB…”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 10:51 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Soffer: Bloomberg Beta rejected FirmPilot's seed round before leading its Series A

“So Bloomberg, who led our Series A, actually told us no to our seed rep.”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 14:14 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Disclosure

Soffer: FirmPilot Won First 10-15 Customers via Spreadsheets and Cold Outreach

“My way of selling is literally get an Excel spreadsheet and just hammer the freaking phone and email. And when they don't answer, you do it again and again. And that's how we got our first 10, 12, 15 customers.”

Jake Soffer Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 19:11 3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer	Nov 7, 2024	14m

Jake Soffer

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