Vertical AI
Every category leader now ships an agent, not a dashboard
The dashboard era optimized for visibility. You bought the tool that showed you the leak, then hired people to plug it. The agent era collapses that loop: the same telemetry that drew the chart now triggers the action.
Watch how product pages are being rewritten. "See everything in one place" is being replaced with "It handles X so you don't." That copy change is the whole thesis.
Signal: when a competitor reframes a reporting feature as an autonomous workflow, they are repricing the category. Don't match the feature — match the outcome.