{
  "id": 4160,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17812v1",
  "title": "Going Headless? On the Boundaries of Vertical AI Firms",
  "summary": "Vertical AI firms in accounting, law, healthcare, procurement, and similar domains historically bundled workflow, domain logic, and accountability into a single application. General-purpose AI agents are now unbundling that package, prompting founders and investors to advocate \"going headless\": cede the workflow and interface to agents and expose domain expertise as callable services. This article argues that going headless is correct for some firms and destructive for others, and that the latte",
  "authors": "Muhammad Zia Hydari, Farooq Muzaffar",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,healthcare,agents-autonomy,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-18T03:38:29.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:45.941Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4160",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17812v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}