Odd Lots · Monday, July 13, 2026
The true cost of AI in legal services is still unknown due to initial subsidized 'all-you-can-eat' pricing models. As firms transition to token-based pricing, Gary Wingins anticipates potential sticker shock and uncertainty about the optimal balance between human and AI labor, especially with rising energy costs.
“All of these models that law firms have been using have been at the enterprise level, have been basically all you can eat pricing? Right, They're all going to be switching to token based pricing? You know, Claude is doing it first.”
“So I don't think we yet know what the actual cost is. That's not if it's not subsidized by outside investors.”
“I don't know that we really know what the optimal combination of labor and capital and you know, robot capital is because we don't know the true cost, especially if we, you know, kind of hit this energy grid wall where it just gets more and more expensive.”