01 Supersonic Score™ The diagnostic In development

How close are you to lawyering with Supersonic Vision™?

Supersonic Vision™ is the ability to identify, engineer, position, and execute legal opportunity before it is visible to others. The Supersonic Score™ measures your proximity to it across the four PUMP™ levers plus proof, systems, opportunity, and audience. Eight questions. Answer honestly; the score is for you.

What this is and is not

The Supersonic Score™ is in development; this is a working draft of the instrument. A free self-assessment, scored in your browser. Your answers are not stored or transmitted. It is not legal advice, not a ranking of lawyers, and not a sales qualifier. There is nothing to buy at the end.

02 Eight questions

The questions

1 OpportunityWhen a new fact pattern, statute, or market shift appears, when do you act?

After a bar journal, a CLE, or a competitor has named it. Once a few trusted peers confirm it is real. Early, with a test matter or memo, before most peers notice. We look for these on purpose, and we are usually first in our market to file or publish.

2 PositioningBefore a prospect, court, or reporter forms an opinion of you, what have they already seen?

A bio page: school, bar admissions, practice areas. A bio plus a few testimonials or awards. A record of filings, outcomes, or publications they can check. A deliberately framed proof stack, with sources, that reaches them before we do.

3 Urgency and speedA clear signal arrives on Monday morning. By Friday, what has happened?

It is on a list for the next partner meeting. Someone has been assigned to research it. A decision has been made and a first move is drafted. A first move has shipped, the result has been read, and the next move is already queued.

4 Market translationHow does your proof reach people who are not lawyers?

It mostly does not. Our work speaks for itself inside the profession. Occasional posts or press releases, written in legal language. Regular content that explains what we did and why it matters, in plain words. A system: each proof event becomes language, media, and conversion surfaces on a schedule.

5 PeopleWho multiplies your outcomes?

Mostly me. Delegation slows things down. A small team that executes what I design. Operators who own outcomes, plus co-counsel and partners we work with repeatedly. An aligned ecosystem: team, operators, partners, clients, and an audience that carries the work further than we can alone.

6 Proof disciplinePick any claim on your website. Can you produce its receipt?

Some claims are inherited language nobody has checked in years. Most claims are true, but the sources would take time to find. Every number has a source we can find on request. Every claim ships with its source, scope, and date, and we say what it does not prove.

7 Systems and AIHow does work move through your firm?

By habit and by whoever is available. Documented procedures for the main workflows. Intake, matter flow, and reporting run on connected systems, with AI used for defined tasks. The firm runs as one operating system. People orchestrate; systems and agents execute; the numbers are watched daily.

8 Owned audienceIf every referral source and directory disappeared tomorrow, who could you still reach directly?

Almost no one outside current clients. A contact list we email a few times a year. An audience that follows our work and hears from us regularly. An owned audience and demand we can activate on our own terms, with media we control.

03 Your Supersonic Score™

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Old World0 to 34. Waiting for permission. Authority is borrowed, speed is deferred, proof is unrecorded.

Transitional35 to 64. Competence is real; the systems, proof discipline, and speed around it are not yet built.

Approaching65 to 84. Proof exists and moves. Opportunity is still found more often than engineered.

Supersonic Vision™85 to 100. You see early, move before consensus, create proof under pressure, and repeat.

Where the points went

Strongest lever first. The lowest lever is the next build.

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The Supersonic Score™ is a self-assessment and a bridge to the doctrine. It is not a ranking, a certification, or a prediction of outcomes.