Definition
Agentic Professional Services
Professional services — accounting, legal, medical, financial advice — delivered primarily through AI agents that handle the technical labor, with human professionals providing review, verification, and trust-layer touchpoints rather than doing the work throughout. Deduction.com is the canonical example: the AI agent handles the tax work, a licensed CPA reviews and signs. The human is not eliminated — they are repositioned to where their presence has the highest value.
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