Why is premium legal tech still being built only for premium buyers?

Something I have been thinking about a lot while building in legal tech:

Why is almost every serious AI/legal tech product being built for the top 1% of the market?

Large law firms and enterprise legal teams are getting access to powerful AI tools for drafting, research, review, redlining, and workflow automation. But small and mid-sized law firms, chambers, boutique practices, and independent lawyers are still being priced out.

The problem is not that they do not need these tools.

In fact, they probably need them more.

Smaller legal teams have fewer associates, fewer support staff, less operational bandwidth, and more pressure to deliver faster. They handle drafting, research, client communication, document review, follow-ups, and matter management with very limited resources.

But most premium legal tech products are either too expensive, too enterprise-heavy, or not designed around their day-to-day workflows.

So the question is:

Why is no one building a truly premium legal tech experience for small and mid-sized legal teams?

Not a lightweight chatbot.
Not a generic AI wrapper.
Not a research-only tool.

But a proper AI-native legal workspace that gives them the same level of capability large firms are getting

drafting, review, redlining, research, document repositories, workflows, collaboration, and automation at a price and structure they can actually use.

Legal work is not only done by large firms.

Some of the most important legal work happens inside small practices, chambers, boutique firms, and independent offices. They deserve better tools too.

Curious to hear from lawyers, founders, and legal tech builders:

Is legal tech ignoring the long tail of the market, or is this segment just harder to serve?