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<ul><li>Clio is seizing the AI moment to cross over from back office to front office with its AI copilot for law firms.</li><li>Since the launch of Clio Payments (2021), payments now drive the majority of net new revenue growth, with Clio reaching a Sacra-estimated $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in June 2025, up from $235M at the end of 2024.</li><li>With its June 2025 acquisition of legal research platform vLex—and its 1B+ cases, statutes, and treatises from 200+ jurisdictions—Clio can combine its library of precedent with the lead-to-ledger data, document storage & workflows it already owns.</li></ul>

Clio is seizing the AI moment to cross over from back office to front office with its AI copilot for law firms.Since the launch of Clio Payments (2021), payments now drive the majority of net new revenue growth, with Clio reaching a Sacra-estimated $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in June 2025, up from $235M at the end of 2024.With its June 2025 acquisition of legal research platform vLex—and its 1B+ cases, statutes, and treatises from 200+ jurisdictions—Clio can combine its library of precedent with the lead-to-ledger data, document storage & workflows it already owns.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Harvey reached $75M in ARR in April 2025, up from $50M at the end of 2024.</li><li>Frontier reasoning models have commodified legal reasoning as a differentiator, with every major LLM company now beating Harvey’s proprietary, fine-tuned legal model on its own BigLaw Bench.</li><li>Like vertical enterprise AI for finance Hebbia, Harvey’s high-cost software represents a bundle of software and high-touch “forward-deployed” services to drive change management, implementation, and adoption within the company.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Harvey reached $75M in ARR in April 2025, up from $50M at the end of 2024.Frontier reasoning models have commodified legal reasoning as a differentiator, with every major LLM company now beating Harvey’s proprietary, fine-tuned legal model on its own BigLaw Bench.Like vertical enterprise AI for finance Hebbia, Harvey’s high-cost software represents a bundle of software and high-touch “forward-deployed” services to drive change management, implementation, and adoption within the company.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Vercel hit $172M ARR in in February 2025, up 80% YoY.</li><li>Vercel enables teams to deploy JS-based apps with minimal configuration—selling speed and simplicity through opinionated defaults—and monetizing through (1) usage-based pricing (compute, bandwidth, storage), (2) per-seat Pro ($20/month/seat) and Enterprise plans, and (3) a separate $20/month subscription for v0, its AI frontend builder.</li><li>The launch of Vercel’s AI app builder v0 in September 2023 caught the wave of AI app builders in 2024 and marked a key inflection point for Vercel, re-accelerating growth to 80% YoY and driving the company to a Sacra-estimated $172M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by February 2025, up from ~$96M at the end of 2023.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Vercel hit $172M ARR in in February 2025, up 80% YoY.Vercel enables teams to deploy JS-based apps with minimal configuration—selling speed and simplicity through opinionated defaults—and monetizing through (1) usage-based pricing (compute, bandwidth, storage), (2) per-seat Pro ($20/month/seat) and Enterprise plans, and (3) a separate $20/month subscription for v0, its AI frontend builder.The launch of Vercel’s AI app builder v0 in September 2023 caught the wave of AI app builders in 2024 and marked a key inflection point for Vercel, re-accelerating growth to 80% YoY and driving the company to a Sacra-estimated $172M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by February 2025, up from ~$96M at the end of 2023.

<ul><li>LLMs have finally made large-scale product recommendation viable by transforming Reddit threads, YouTube transcripts, and Wirecutter and RTINGS reviews—the last bastions of authentic product knowledge on a gamed web—into structured, trustworthy input for AI shopping assistants.</li><li>As agents take over more of the shopping workflow from research to comparison to purchase, the adtech and SaaS ecosystem behind modern e-commerce—ad networks, affiliate networks, retargeting engines, on-site optimization—stands to get bypassed by upstream recommendation engines where purchases are researched (Vetted) and downstream payment rails where transactions are executed (Stripe, PayPal).</li><li>When you ask a question to Vetted, we actually make over a hundred LLM calls. It's not just one model spitting out an answer. Each one of those steps imbue how we think people should research products and consider what's relevant.</li></ul>

LLMs have finally made large-scale product recommendation viable by transforming Reddit threads, YouTube transcripts, and Wirecutter and RTINGS reviews—the last bastions of authentic product knowledge on a gamed web—into structured, trustworthy input for AI shopping assistants.As agents take over more of the shopping workflow from research to comparison to purchase, the adtech and SaaS ecosystem behind modern e-commerce—ad networks, affiliate networks, retargeting engines, on-site optimization—stands to get bypassed by upstream recommendation engines where purchases are researched (Vetted) and downstream payment rails where transactions are executed (Stripe, PayPal).When you ask a question to Vetted, we actually make over a hundred LLM calls. It's not just one model spitting out an answer. Each one of those steps imbue how we think people should research products and consider what's relevant.

Stuart Kearney, co-founder Of Vetted, On AI Agents In Shopping

<ul><li>Three form factors for AI agents are emerging—browser-based &amp; mobile apps (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) with easy distribution and app-level integrations, native apps with OS-level integrations & OS forks (Perplexity Assistant, Granola, Wafer) that unlock deeper awareness across a user’s apps and data but face distribution challenges, and purpose-built AI hardware devices (Friend, Rabbit) with novel interaction patterns.</li><li>OpenAI’s hardware projects and Perplexity’s new Android assistant are attacking the OS-level AI assistant layer where Google and Apple’s app store–based business models—built on developers giving up a 30% cut in exchange for distribution—make it structurally difficult for Google and Apple themselves to route users around apps entirely.</li><li>Android’s open ecosystem structure represents a huge opportunity for AI-first computing, with custom assistants (Perplexity), launchers (Microsoft Launcher), and full-on forks (Wafer, /dev/agents) potentially providing Samsung and the 96% of non-Google Android OEMs with the firepower to build the first AI-native smartphone experience.</li></ul>

Three form factors for AI agents are emerging—browser-based &amp; mobile apps (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) with easy distribution and app-level integrations, native apps with OS-level integrations & OS forks (Perplexity Assistant, Granola, Wafer) that unlock deeper awareness across a user’s apps and data but face distribution challenges, and purpose-built AI hardware devices (Friend, Rabbit) with novel interaction patterns.OpenAI’s hardware projects and Perplexity’s new Android assistant are attacking the OS-level AI assistant layer where Google and Apple’s app store–based business models—built on developers giving up a 30% cut in exchange for distribution—make it structurally difficult for Google and Apple themselves to route users around apps entirely.Android’s open ecosystem structure represents a huge opportunity for AI-first computing, with custom assistants (Perplexity), launchers (Microsoft Launcher), and full-on forks (Wafer, /dev/agents) potentially providing Samsung and the 96% of non-Google Android OEMs with the firepower to build the first AI-native smartphone experience.

Sam Hall, CEO Of Wafer, On AI Agent Form Factors

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Stuart Kearney, co-founder Of Vetted, On AI Agents In Shopping

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Sam Hall, CEO Of Wafer, On AI Agent Form Factors

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