AI-native legal businesses challenge cost-plus pricing
Artificial Lawyer’s interview with Olivier Chaduteau argues that AI enables more work, different capacity economics and a move from cost-plus hourly pricing toward value pricing.
BY FRONTIER DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
Artificial Lawyer’s interview with Olivier Chaduteau argues that AI enables more work, different capacity economics and a move from cost-plus hourly pricing toward value pricing. The important point is not that AI cuts hours. It is that AI changes the production function, which forces a conversation about price, margin, matter design and what clients are actually buying.