For immigration law practices
Immigration clients ask an AI model long before they trust a law firm.
They are frightened of being scammed, so they research hard and ask about legitimacy first. Ciclo tells you whether your practice is named in those answers and what they were built from.
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This is what the answer looks like.
The question is rarely "find me a lawyer" first. It is "how do I know this lawyer is real", and the firms cited in that answer are the ones recommended in the next.
Best immigration lawyer for a marriage green card in Miami
- Delgado Immigration Law
- Fuentes & Park
- Biscayne Immigration Group
- Missing from 5 of the 10 pages the answer was built from
- No AILA lawyer search entry matching your practice name
- Avvo profile lists general practice rather than immigration matter types
- No page on your site explaining fees or how to verify a lawyer is legitimate
An invented example, not a measured result. Your own answer is what the trial measures.
Monitor, find the gap, fix it, measure what changed.
Not a score. A loop that runs on a schedule, where each step feeds the next.
- 01
Monitor
We run the questions your clients actually type, against ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, on a schedule. Only the shortlist counts.
- 02
Find the gap
For every question: were you named, which practices were named instead, and which pages each model read before answering.
- 03
Fix it
Each gap arrives as a work order: the directory entry to correct, the matter types to list, the fee and legitimacy pages your clients are searching for.
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Measure
We re-run the same questions weeks later, so you can see whether the shortlist changed.
Who gets recommended instead of you.
Visibility splits by matter type. A practice can be named constantly for family petitions and never appear for asylum or deportation defence in the same metro.
An invented example, not a measured result. The point is the shape: Ciclo reports the gap and then the reason for it, never a score on its own.
The sources behind the answer, and where you are missing.
Because this client is actively worried about fraud, models reach hard for credential sources: bar records, association membership and directories that verify who is real.
| Source the model cited | You | Delgado Immigration Law |
|---|---|---|
| AILA lawyer searchTrade body | YouMissing | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| AvvoDirectory | YouIncomplete | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| State bar referral pageCredential | YouPresent | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| JustiaDirectory | YouPresent | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| FindLawDirectory | YouIncomplete | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| Google Business ProfileReviews and local | YouPresent | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| r/immigration and r/USCIS threadsCommunity | YouMissing | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| Immigration explainer publishersEditorial | YouMissing | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
| Your own websiteOwned | YouIncomplete | Delgado Immigration LawPresent |
Ciclo turns those gaps into work orders.
- Create the association entry the model cited in five separate answers
- Correct the Avvo and FindLaw profiles to list actual matter types, not general practice
- Publish fee, timeline and "how to verify a lawyer" pages on your own domain
- Pursue a listing with the explainer publishers that link out to counsel
- Address the community threads where the practice is discussed without a reply
One retained matter is the month.
A family petition or a defence matter is thousands to tens of thousands in fee, and immigration clients refer heavily inside their own community. Being absent from the answer costs the referral chain that would have followed, not just the one case.
Ranking on Google is not the same as being recommended.
Ranking for "immigration lawyer Miami" is not the same as being recommended. Most of this client’s research is spent on legitimacy and process questions, and the practices cited in those answers are the ones named when they finally ask who to hire.
- Bar and credential records
- Trade associations
- Legal directories
- Explainer publishers
- Community forums
- Review platforms
- Firm websites
Ciclo maps that ecosystem for your trade and your metro, then tells you which part of it you are absent from.
What your buyers actually ask.
A query is one whole question, typed the way a worried client types it. Not a keyword. Yours is written for your matter types and your metros.
By matter type
- best immigration lawyer for a green card through marriage
- asylum attorney near me
- deportation defense lawyer near me
- immigration lawyer for a U visa
- DACA renewal attorney near me
- naturalization lawyer near me
- H-1B denial lawyer what are my options
By anxiety, where trust is decided
- how much does an immigration lawyer cost for a green card
- do I need a lawyer or can I file the I-485 myself
- how do I know if an immigration lawyer is legitimate
- is a free immigration consultation actually free
- what happens if my asylum case is denied
- how long does a marriage green card take
Common questions
How do I check whether ChatGPT recommends my practice?
Ask it your clients’ questions repeatedly, across sessions and models, and record which practices get named. A single answer is noise. Ciclo runs a fixed question list on a schedule and reports how often you are in the shortlist, split by matter type and metro.
Does state bar advertising still apply to us?
Yes. Your state’s rules apply to your firm’s own advertising. Immigration being federal practice just means fewer cross-state variations in what we draft, and your practice approves everything before it is submitted.
Why doesn’t my own website matter more?
For "best X near me" questions it mostly does not, because the model assembles its shortlist from third party pages. Your site matters for fee and process questions, which is why those pages are on the fix list.
Can you guarantee I will show up in ChatGPT?
No, and nobody can. What is controllable is whether you appear, correctly and completely, on the sources the models cite for your questions.
You have seen the gap. Closing it is the work.
A teardown is one photograph. On a plan the same questions run on a schedule, every fix arrives already written, and each one is re-measured against the questions it was meant to move. That is the difference between knowing you are invisible and stopping being invisible.
14 days free. Cancel before day 14 and you are not charged. Your first questions run against ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the moment you sign up, while you watch.