Beyond Chatbots: Why Regulated Industries Are Finally Ready for AI Agents
For the past three years, every organization in America has been pitched the same thing: a chatbot. Add it to your website. Train it on your documents. Watch it answer questions. And to be fair — it worked. Sort of. Chatbots got good at answering FAQs. They reduced call volume. They saved some time. But for organizations operating in regulated environments — healthcare systems, federal agencies, insurance companies, financial institutions — the chatbot era mostly delivered a polished interface