CROSS-CATEGORY: Four Vertical AI Companies Hit Unicorn+ Valuations in Five Days — Legal, Healthcare, Observability, Media

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Between March 23-27, vertical AI companies reached unicorn-or-beyond status across four unrelated categories simultaneously: Harvey at $11B (legal), Dash0 at $1B (observability), Qualified Health at $500M-$1B (healthcare), and FAL approaching $8B (generative media). All four use usage-based or outcome-based pricing rather than seats. The simultaneous emergence across unrelated verticals suggests AI-native companies can now achieve massive scale in ANY category traditionally dominated by horizontal SaaS, each replacing entire toolchains with domain-specific intelligence layers.