The software world
Seat
license seat · team license
A seat is one paid spot on a team or organization's plan — one person's access. When a company buys software "for ten seats," it's paying for ten people to use it, and it can usually move a seat from someone who left to someone new. It's the unit a business buys and budgets in, rather than everyone purchasing their own copy.
Why it matters
Part of Rolling Claude out to a team → It's how business software is priced, Claude Code included: an organisation buys a block of seats, assigns them to people, and adds or reassigns them as the team changes. Knowing the word is what lets you read any team or enterprise pricing page — and it's the unit a pilot is costed in.
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