Map/Agents and organisations/Wave 8

Professional-services agents

Agents that take a legal matter, tax return or engineering task and return a reviewed draft: the coding-agent product shape sold to other professions.

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Facts

Lane: Agents and organisations
Wave: 8 of 12 (build order, not a date)
Needs: 17 boxes all the way back through hard links
Unlocks: 0 boxes downstream through hard links
Leverage: None: already built
Cluster: Agents at work
Found by: pattern transplant lens

Evidence as of October 2026

Harvey passed $200M ARR with 100,000+ lawyers at an $11B valuation (Mar 2026), and accounting-agent maker Basis raised $100M at $1.15B, claiming about 30% of the top 25 US firms (Feb 2026, company claims).

Around it

Needs · 5

Coding agents as productsstage · Built today
Tool use and code executioncapability · Built today
Long-horizon agentsstage · Built today
Company data connectorscapability · Built today
Context engineeringcapability · Built today

Unlocks · 2

Workflow redesigncapability · Emerging · helps, not required
AI-native application revenuecapability · Built today · helps, not required

Loops and off-ramps

Capex pullbackoff-ramp · slowed
Taiwan chip disruptionoff-ramp · slowed
Power shortfalloff-ramp · slowed
Capability plateauoff-ramp · slowed
Training data ruled outoff-ramp · slowed

Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting

Crowding5 Lab overlap4 Small-team fit3 Buyer today5 Research openness2.5

Depth: light
Players: Harvey ($550M at $15.5bn, Sep 2026); Legora (~$8.8bn, seeking $10bn); Basis ($100M at $1.15bn); Limitless Labs ($20M); Anthropic and OpenAI finance/legal plugins
Wedge: Pick a smaller regulated profession (loss adjusting, building surveying, non-US patent work) where access to the sign-off workflow and data is the moat, and sell reviewed drafts there. startup