Desk·2026-10-03
Harvey AE year ties the Stripe software seat
Same account-executive title. Harvey prints the legal-AI quota year. Stripe prints the payments book under it by about $4k. The Stripe software seat matches the Harvey OTE.
Harvey typical $328,284 against $324,000 at Stripe.
AE OTE
Harvey typical sits ~1.01× Stripe
Same title. Legal-AI enterprise AE clears $328k OTE. Payments enterprise AE clears $324k. Stripe SWE typical is $328k.
How to plan it
Sit the payments IC year before the legal quota
A closer planning 2027 should treat Harvey and Stripe as two books, not one sales band. The New York Post reported on 2 October that Silicon Valley took $92 billion of venture capital last year, 83 percent for AI, and still lost 13,100 jobs. Harvey raised $550 million at about $15.5 billion in September after crossing $400 million in ARR. The raise does not reprice the seat. Harvey enterprise AE prints $328k typical OTE with a $170k base, sample fifteen, marked hot. Stripe enterprise AE prints $324k typical with a $162k base, sample twenty-five. The legal book leads by about $4k. Stripe software engineer prints $328k typical with a $188k base, sample forty-one — the same year as the Harvey quota, without a number to hit. If you can carry a quota, sit Harvey AE. If you can ship systems, sit Stripe SWE. It matches the Harvey OTE and keeps a higher base.
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