1. Replace the blank-form handoff with a guided first step
Bosseo describes Video Intake as a website-based guided video survey. A visitor selects an invitation such as “See if you have a case,” then moves through a branching survey built around the firm’s practice areas. The stated purpose is to capture information such as case type, urgency and fit before the inquiry reaches the team. That is materially different from asking someone to enter a name, contact detail and free-text description. For a firm serving Crawfordsville and Montgomery County, the decision is whether a guided explanation would make the firm’s own website easier for a visitor to use. The population estimate for Crawfordsville does not answer that question, and it should not be used to assume that residents prefer video or that the firm needs more intake capacity.
Recommended approach
Review the current contact path on your website. Identify where a visitor must describe a legal problem without prompts, then decide which questions would make the first handoff more useful without implying that the survey provides legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship.
