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Harvey’s AI legal platform is moving into Axiom’s core territory, handling contract review and due diligence work that flexible attorney staffing once dominated.

Lexi’s AI legal assistant is targeting solo attorneys and small firms priced out of LexisNexis, offering natural language research and drafting tools at a fraction of legacy costs.

Durable’s AI website builder targets the same small business owners Squarespace has courted for years – with a faster, cheaper, AI-first pitch that bypasses the blank-canvas problem entirely.

Contra’s zero-commission model is pulling skilled freelancers away from legacy talent networks, putting direct pressure on Andela’s repositioned marketplace strategy.

Notion’s Clips feature is eroding Loom’s core use case by embedding async video directly inside docs, threatening Atlassian’s $975M acquisition.

Baseten’s model inference platform is winning enterprise clients from Modal by prioritizing latency control, compliance features, and reserved GPU capacity.

Mercoa’s B2B payments API is winning enterprise deals by targeting the workflow gaps that Stripe Treasury doesn’t cover out of the box.

Bolt’s one-click checkout network is targeting Shopify’s most profitable business – its payments infrastructure – by going after merchants Shopify can’t easily reach.

Runway ML’s Gen-4 video model is matching OpenAI’s Sora on key quality benchmarks, with new features that could shift which tool production teams reach for first.

Wayve is targeting fleet software contracts in the gap between basic ADAS and full autonomy, putting direct pressure on Mobileye’s commercial pipeline.