The founder of one of legal tech’s buzziest startups says a move away from the software seat was only “a matter of time.”

Since the rise of cloud software, companies have mostly charged for it by the user. A business bought a subscription for a set number of licenses, or “seats,” and paid roughly the same whether employees used it religiously or hardly at all.

Max Junestrand started Legora, which sells software to the legal industry, at the tail end of software’s great subscription boom. Three years later, that playbook is starting to break down. Artificial intelligence is scrambling the economics of software. Legora has changed its pricing…