MODULE 03 / 08 · 12 MIN
ICP Segments & the Law Firm Buying Committee
Which firms fit, and how to speak to the Managing Partner, CFO, CIO and Chief Knowledge Officer.
Key intelligence
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Segments: Am Law 200 & Global 100, mid-market enterprise (NLJ 500), and litigation-heavy practice groups.
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CFO: write-downs, slow collections and eBilling rejections → Onyx, BillBlast, Cloud AR.
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Managing Partner / Pricing Lead: margin erosion on fixed fees → Virtual Pricing Director.
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CIO: on-premise servers and cloud migration risk → Expert Sierra and Stridyn. CKO: scattered knowledge → Handshake.
ICP
Who we sell to
Large and mid-market law firms and professional services firms with institutional finance needs: multi-office or multi-entity, corporate clients enforcing OCGs and eBilling, and pressure to modernize on-premise systems. Firms outgrowing Clio, MyCase or Actionstep — and Elite 3E shops facing a disruptive cloud re-implementation — are prime targets.
The buying committee
Interactive persona map
Chief Financial Officer
Realization, lockup, write-downs and predictable cash. Usually the economic buyer for Work-to-Cash.
Lead with: Onyx · BillBlast · Cloud AR · Cloud GL
Operational pains
- High revenue write-downs from OCG violations
- Slow bill collections and rising lockup days
- eBilling submission rejections across portals
- Multi-entity, multi-currency close complexity
Buying triggers
- Realization dropping year over year
- New panel clients with strict OCGs
- Merger or new international office
- Month-end close running long
Signature discovery question
"What percentage of your monthly pre-bills are rejected or delayed due to Outside Counsel Guideline violations?"
Cold outreach hooks
"Most CFOs we speak to can tell me realization — very few can tell me how much of the gap is OCG rejections. Can you?"
"If BillBlast flagged every rejected line item the hour it happened, how many days would that take out of lockup?"
Pains, solutions and signature questions come from the research file. Buying triggers and outreach hooks are coaching suggestions built on top of it.
Committee dynamics
How the deal actually moves
Champion
CFO or Director of Finance/Billing — owns the write-down pain
Economic buyer
Managing Partner + Executive Committee sign off on core-system change
Technical gate
CIO validates security, cloud architecture and integrations
Adoption voice
CKO and practice leaders decide whether attorneys will use it