Harvard Center for the Legal Profession
AI and the Future of Law

The Scrambled Competitive Map

Anthea Roberts & David Wilkins

Essay 5 of the series — April–June 2026

Twenty actors, five competitive dynamics, five swing actors. Arrowheads show direction. Node size reflects how connected each actor is across the network. Toggle the view to see the upstream-to-downstream ladder, or let the graph find its own clusters.

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Capital and models at the top; vendors in the middle; incumbents and demand at the bottom.

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Actor Types

Competitive Dynamics

Swing actor (multiple positions)

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Click any node to read the actor brief. Click any line to read the relationship that connects two actors — capital flow, distribution, cannibalisation, absorption, or disintermediation.