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Featured Industry 22 Jul 2026 · 7 min read

The empty chair: why per-seat software is dying and what replaces it

In February the market wiped 285 billion dollars off software companies and called it a bubble. It was not a bubble. It was an industry discovering that the unit it had priced itself on for twenty years, the human seat, is dissolving under it.

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Industry · 1 Oct 2025

The quiet death of the dev shop

There are roughly twelve thousand digital agencies in the UK. Most of them have a margin model that depends on the cost of producing software holding steady. It has not. The reckoning is two years out.

Louis O'Connell-Bristow 7 min

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