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A clearer view of what your acquisition budget can deliver.
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Enter your acquisition price, including any management and intake charges in that price. Those charges are not added again. Add only excluded review and setup costs below.
Your assumed gross average across all cases remaining after review, including any that recover $0. No settlement benchmark is supplied.
40% is an editable illustration. Gross fees are before referral splits, common-benefit assessments, financing, and litigation expenses.
This survival assumption is separate from intake qualification. A signed retainer does not establish case eligibility.
Settlement economics
Enter an average settlement value to calculate.
The last figure is not net profit. It excludes fee splits, financing, litigation expenses, taxes, and timing.
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What if acquisition costs rise and fewer cases remain?
Settlement values are your assumptions. Results are scenarios, not forecasts or investment returns.
Sources, definitions & calculation method
Benchmark source: MTAA market data, snapshot captured September 9, 2026. “Reported benchmark” means a dated rolling 30-day figure, not a live feed into this app. Firm names identify qualification criteria, not clients.
MTAA's published CPSC includes a standard $100 intake allowance and excludes its 15% management fee and setup costs. Here, the $100 allowance is removed to obtain media cost per reported signing, then your chosen fee and expenses are added. Signing feedback coverage is not independently verified for every included campaign; these are reported events, not independently verified legal cases.
Last Cost per Signed Retainer: Supplied by Jacob Malherbe on September 9, 2026. This is the date the figures were provided, not the date the costs were incurred. Cost periods and qualification criteria were not supplied with the figures. Last Cost is used directly in retainer mode without adding management or intake charges again; excluded review and setup costs remain separate. It is not a live price, verified market average, or guaranteed quote.
Planning estimates: Profiles without a Last Cost or reported cost use the same illustrative $1,000 media-cost starting point. This is not a tort-specific market benchmark. Replace it with your quote or evidence. Historical event counts are context only and are never used to infer current acquisition costs or signing rates.
Math: In retainer mode, variable cost/signing = entered cost per signed retainer + excluded review cost. Management and intake are not added again. In media mode, variable cost/signing = media × (1 + management fee/100) + intake + review. Signed retainers = max(0, budget − setup) ÷ variable cost. Remaining cases = signings × review survival. Effective cost = total budget ÷ remaining cases. Downside increases the entered retainer price (or media cost in media mode) and reduces survival by percentage points. Gross settlements = remaining cases × your assumed average settlement, including zero recoveries. Gross attorney fees = gross settlements × your fee percentage. Fees less acquisition budget excludes other expenses and is not net profit. Calculations use unrounded values; counts display to one decimal. Linear scaling assumes the same costs at the entered budget; capacity and saturation are not modeled.
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The market, with context.
Last Cost per Signed Retainer, supplied by Jacob. Reported media benchmarks shown separately.
Status reflects the source snapshot. Estimates are editable planning inputs, not evidence of current market prices. View source & methodology ↗
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