{"id":242394,"date":"2026-07-11T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-wont-save-your-vertical-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:15:53","slug":"atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-wont-save-your-vertical-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-wont-save-your-vertical-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Atul Ramachandran: Why Chat and Citations Alone Won&#8217;t Save Your Vertical AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-won-t-save-your-vertical-ai\">Atul Ramachandran: Why Chat and Citations Alone Won&#8217;t Save Your Vertical AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-won-t-save-your-vertical-ai\">https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-won-t-save-your-vertical-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-11 14:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.startuphub.ai\">www.startuphub.ai<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Vertical AI Development Race<\/strong>: Many startups are developing vertical AI solutions tailored for industries such as healthcare, legal, and tax to save time and costs through AI-driven efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Insufficient Interaction Methods<\/strong>: The prevalent interfaces of chat and citations used in these AI solutions are criticized for falling short in fulfilling the promise of efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>CTO Atul Ramachandran\u2019s Thesis<\/strong>: Atul Ramachandran, CTO and Co-founder of Filed, argues that current interaction methods put too much burden back on users, thus not truly achieving AI-driven efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Experience from the Tax Industry<\/strong>: Ramachandran&#8217;s insights are grounded in his extensive experience in building and scaling AI agents within the complex tax industry, which he believes are universally applicable to vertical AI products.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atul Ramachandran: Why Chat and Citations Alone Won&#8217;t Save Your Vertical AI https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/atul-ramachandran-why-chat-and-citations-alone-won-t-save-your-vertical-ai Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.startuphub.ai\/storage\/v1\/object\/public\/post-images\/youtube\/1783792890686.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242396,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242394\/revisions\/242396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}