1. Start with your actual coverage gaps—not the size of Franklin Farm
Franklin Farm’s recorded geography is a CDP in Fairfax County. Review your own phone records instead. Separate unanswered calls, after-hours calls, busy-line events, current-client calls and calls that never required legal intake. That distinction matters because AI Answering is positioned as a safety net for calls your team cannot answer, not as a conclusion that your firm has a particular volume problem.
Recommended approach
Before choosing a call path, examine a representative period of your phone records and identify when unanswered calls occur. Decide whether the first test should focus on after-hours coverage, overflow, holidays or another documented gap.
