Domain agent taxonomies: industry → process → function
Monolithic agents fail at scale. A three-tier split — industry, process, function — keeps accuracy high and blast radius small.
By Niravana · 8 min read · January 22, 2025 · AI architects
One agent for everything
A general assistant that “knows healthcare and also payroll and also your warehouse” will sound fluent and still book the wrong CPT code. Specificity is a reliability feature.
The three layers
Industry sets vocabulary and regulation (HIPAA is not optional colour). Process is the workflow (triage, billing, onboarding). Function is the atomic step (identify the patient, draft the outreach, validate the JSON).
Isolation matters: a failure in care-gap analysis should not take down intake. Orchestration keeps state; specialists do the work.