Usage-Based Drafting for Small Firms
Solve Intelligence
This pricing choice is really a wedge into the part of the legal market that legacy IP software leaves behind. Small patent firms usually do not want a full system for docketing, renewals, and records management, they want help producing one draft or one office action faster. Solve can sell that narrow workflow inside a browser, charge when work is created, and win firms that would never sign a large annual platform contract.
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The product is built for lightweight adoption. Lawyers work in a Google Docs style editor, paste in invention notes or call transcripts, and get a draft, response, or claim chart back without the IT work that comes with older IP management suites.
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That matters because the legacy stack is sold as broad infrastructure. Clarivate bought Rowan Patents in July 2024 to add drafting into a wider IP lifecycle suite, and LexisNexis allied with Harvey in June 2025 to combine legal content with AI workflows. Both moves favor larger accounts already paying for bundled systems.
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The long tail is big enough to matter. Solve doubled to more than 400 IP teams in 2025, with about 60% of customers law firms, and grew from $1M ARR in December 2024 to $12M in December 2025. That pattern fits a product that can start as a low commitment drafting tool and then expand by seat and usage.
Over time, the likely path is from drafting utility to system of record adjacencies. Once a small firm is generating drafts, responses, and charts inside one tool, the natural next products are prosecution workflows, litigation support, and eventually more of the surrounding patent operations stack. That is how usage based entry points become durable software accounts.