Revamp vs Scorpion: AI vs $2k/Mo Agency (2026)

Short answer for partners and marketing directors

If your firm needs a fresh redesign concept this week and a budget you can defend at the partners’ meeting, Revamp is the cheaper, faster starting point. Paste the firm’s current URL, get a modern responsive redesign preview in about two minutes, share it internally, then either export the code or hand it to a developer.

If your firm wants someone else to run intake, paid ads, SEO content, call tracking, and the site itself on an ongoing monthly retainer, Scorpion is one of the larger full-service legal marketing agencies in the U.S. and remains a reasonable fit for firms that prefer to outsource the whole growth function.

These are different products, not direct substitutes. Most of the firms reaching out to us in 2026 have already tried (or quoted) a Scorpion-style agency and want to keep the redesign in-house without losing twelve months and $30k+ to a contract.

The honest cost picture

We’ve collected pricing data from law-firm marketing forums, LinkedIn discussions among managing partners, and published RFPs over the last 18 months. Scorpion does not publish pricing publicly, but the consistent range for legal clients is:

Engagement	Typical first-year cost
Scorpion full-service (website + SEO + PPC)	$24,000 – $60,000+ ($2k–$5k+/month)
Scorpion website-only build	$5,000 – $15,000 setup, then monthly hosting/edits
Revamp Pro plan (DIY redesign + export)	$348/year ($29/month)
Revamp Business plan (team + priority)	$948/year ($79/month)
Revamp Free plan	$0 (20 credits/month, no credit card)

Sources: Scorpion’s industry pages for service scope, and aggregated reports from law-firm marketing communities. Always get an actual quote — Scorpion negotiates by firm size and market.

What you actually get

Revamp gives you

A live preview of a modern, responsive redesign of your current site in about 2 minutes.
A shareable URL you can text to a partner, paste into Slack, or attach to a discovery deck.
Code export (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) on Pro and Business plans — useful if you already have a developer, a freelance designer, or an in-house IT person.
Full ownership of the result. Nothing locks the firm to revamp.dev to keep running.
No long-term contract. Cancel anytime; everything you exported stays yours.

You handle: choosing a host, swapping domain DNS, writing new copy if you want it, and the actual SEO migration. We have a step-by-step guide for that here: How to redesign a website without losing SEO.

Scorpion gives you

A full-service team — strategist, designer, developer, SEO lead, paid media manager — assigned to the account.
The website itself, hosted on Scorpion’s platform. Most clients do not get raw exportable code.
Ongoing paid search management (Google Ads, Local Services Ads).
Call tracking, lead routing, CRM integrations, and “Connect” reporting dashboards.
Content production and on-page SEO updates included in the retainer.

You hand off: most of the decision-making, the build, and the operations. You typically don’t own the website outright — you rent the relationship.

Where each one is the right call

Pick Revamp if any of these are true

You already have a competent in-house marketing person or a freelance developer. You want a fresh redesign direction without a discovery process.
Your priority right now is the website, not the whole funnel. Ads, SEO, and intake are working fine; the site is the embarrassing part.
You want price clarity. $29 or $79 a month, cancel anytime, no proposal cycle.
You don’t want to be stuck on someone else’s platform. Export the code, ship it to whatever stack you like — WordPress, Webflow, Astro, custom.
You’re testing a concept for a new practice area page or a new microsite and don’t want to wait six weeks for an agency timeline.

Pick Scorpion (or a comparable legal marketing agency) if

You want one vendor managing intake, ads, SEO, and the site under a single SLA.
The firm doesn’t have anyone internally who will own the website — partners just want the leads.
Your case acquisition cost is high enough that $2k–$5k/month is rounding error, and you’d rather pay for managed expertise than build it in-house.
You’re a multi-location firm where a single platform with consistent reporting matters more than ownership flexibility.

What Scorpion clients tell us they wish they had

Across thirty-plus discovery calls with law firms shopping for an alternative, the same three issues come up:

“We don’t actually own the site.” Switching agencies typically means rebuilding from scratch because Scorpion (and most full-service legal agencies) hosts on a proprietary CMS.
“Edits are too slow.” A “change the headline on the practice-area page” request can take days through the ticket system.
“The redesign cycles are too long.” A typical agency redesign timeline is 8–14 weeks. By the time it’s live, the firm’s positioning has often shifted.

Revamp solves the first two of those directly — you own the exported code and you can regenerate a section in a couple of minutes instead of waiting for a ticket. It does not solve “we want someone else to run our entire marketing function.” Different problem.

The hybrid play (what most firms we work with actually do)

A surprising amount of our law-firm customers keep Scorpion (or a similar managed agency) for paid search and intake, and use Revamp to generate fresh practice-area pages and landing pages without going through the agency’s ticket queue. The agency keeps doing what it’s good at — managing spend, tracking calls — and the firm finally controls its own site iteration speed.

If that hybrid model interests you, the workflow looks like:

Paste the agency-built site URL into Revamp.
Generate a modern redesign of the page you want to refresh.
Export the HTML/CSS/JS on a Pro plan.
Have the agency upload the new page onto their CMS, or stand up the new pages on a subdomain (/dui/, /personal-injury/, /free-consult/) that you control end-to-end.

What about SEO?

This is the question every managing partner asks. The two-minute answer:

Don’t break URLs. If you redesign the homepage and existing service pages, keep the same paths. If a URL has to change, 301-redirect it.
Preserve title tags, meta descriptions, and H1s unless you have a real reason to change them.
Run a crawl before and after so you know what your current internal link structure looks like. Free crawlers like Screaming Frog handle this for sites under 500 pages.
Monitor Google Search Console for 2–4 weeks. Watch impressions on your top 20 ranking queries.

Scorpion handles this for clients as part of the standard build. With Revamp you handle it (or your developer does). We wrote the full checklist here: How to redesign a website without losing SEO.

Verdict

Revamp is for the firm that wants to control its website. $29 or $79 a month, code you own, redesign in minutes, redesign again next month if you want.

Scorpion is for the firm that wants a managed marketing function. Higher monthly spend, slower iteration, but a team that owns the entire growth function under one roof.

Most firms we talk to in 2026 fit somewhere between these — they want ad management outsourced and their site under their own control. For that hybrid, Revamp is a clean fit for the website half. For the ads half, look at Scorpion, Comrade Digital Marketing, Justia, or a local PPC freelancer depending on case volume.

FAQ

Is Revamp a Scorpion competitor?

Only on the website-build piece. Scorpion is a full marketing agency; Revamp is a DIY AI redesign tool. They overlap on “we’ll redesign your law-firm website,” but the model is completely different.

Can I move my Scorpion site to Revamp?

You can redesign the existing public URL in Revamp and export the new code. Migrating off Scorpion’s hosted platform still requires standing up a new host (WordPress, Webflow, Astro, etc.) and pointing your domain at it. Plan for two to four weeks if you have an in-house developer or a freelancer.

No. Revamp is the website-redesign part only. We integrate with anything that takes embed code or a script (CallRail, Lead Docket, Clio Grow), but we don’t run ad spend or write SEO content.

What if I want managed services on top of Revamp?

Our partner agencies use Revamp to build, then handle hosting/SEO/PPC on a separate retainer that’s typically $1k–$3k/month — cheaper than full-service because the build cost is gone. See Revamp for marketing agencies.

How long does a Revamp redesign actually take?

The AI generation runs in about two minutes. The full workflow — generate, review with partners, export, ship to host — is typically two to ten business days depending on how many practice-area pages you’re refreshing and whether you have a developer ready.

Who is Scorpion best for?

Mid-sized firms (5–50 attorneys) with case acquisition costs high enough that a $24k–$60k/year marketing retainer pays back inside a few new clients. Smaller solo firms typically find the spend hard to justify.