1. Start with the bottleneck your Marple practice can describe clearly
Marple is recorded in the 2020–2024 ACS 5-year data with an estimated population of 24,216 and a margin of error of 34. That is eligibility and geographic context, not proof of legal demand, lead volume or revenue. A firm serving Marple may need to examine its own work across Delaware County and any other area it serves, while keeping those geographies distinct. Custom software is most defensible when the problem is operational: a repeated handoff, a missing status view, a manual assignment or a process that requires duplicate entry.
Recommended approach
Bring one sentence to the consultation that begins, “Someone at the firm has to manually…” Then identify where that task starts, who performs it, what information is entered and what happens next. Do not begin with a request for a broad platform.
