Petr Pátek spent seven years at Apify, building web automation infrastructure that processes millions of requests daily and fighting the arms race between scrapers and anti-bot systems. That work gave him a front-row seat to a shift most people missed: software was increasingly being consumed by machines, not humans. The APIs he built were called by automated pipelines, orchestration layers, and eventually AI agents, not by people clicking through dashboards.
When LLMs gained the ability to call functions, read APIs, and operate software autonomously, the pattern became impossible to ignore. The systems that worked best were the ones built headless: clean APIs, predictable contracts, no UI assumptions. The ones that struggled were the monoliths designed around dashboards that machines had to work around rather than with.
Petr co-founded Bitvea, a custom software development company in the Czech Republic, where he builds the kinds of systems Headless Systems writes about: API-first platforms, custom CRMs and ERPs, and AI integrations for businesses outgrowing their off-the-shelf tools.
Headless Systems is where these threads converge. It is Petr's work on the architectural shift he watched unfold at Apify and now builds for at Bitvea: the move toward software designed for machines first, with human interfaces as an optional layer.