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Gusto put payroll inside Claude on April 8. QuickBooks follows. When clients query their own data through AI, what's the accounting firm for?
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Gusto put payroll inside Claude on April 8. QuickBooks follows. When clients query their own data through AI, what's the accounting firm for?
Read issue →One person built a 66-agent AI law firm that runs itself on a Mac Mini. Here's what Lavern means for professional services firm owners in the next 18 months.
Read issue →Justia's 50-State Survey maps your state bar's AI ethics guidance. Pair it with the ABA checklist for a complete small firm compliance audit.
Read issue →AI now closes month-end inside Workday automatically. What small accounting firms must understand before their enterprise-platform clients ask.
Read issue →Robert Half Q1 2026: $1.3B revenue, down 4% YoY, stock -8.1%. Here's what the staffing market signal means for professional services firm owners.
Read issue →CBIZ announced the first agent-native platform at a top-10 professional services firm. Here's the 3-layer framework and how smaller firms can use it.
Read issue →Anthropic launched Claude Design April 17, 2026. Builds decks from plain-text prompts. Here's the consulting firm workflow, time savings, and what it costs.
Read issue →U.S. courts issued $110,200 against two attorneys for AI-fabricated citations in April 2026. Here's the three-step verification protocol every law firm needs.
Read issue →GPT-4o retired April 3. GPT-5.4 adds native Excel, 1M-token context, and multi-step autonomy. Here's what workflows to revisit at your firm.
Read issue →TR's president predicts 1 AI agent per accountant by 2030. 70% of tax pros expect agentic AI central to their workflow. What that means for your firm.
Read issue →61% of professional services firms abandoned an AI initiative last year. The cause is change management, not tools. Here's the fix.
Read issue →Accounting firms are now spending more on tech than headcount. See what Wipfli and Schellman's agentic AI builds mean for your firm.
Read issue →California State Bar filed the first formal AI discipline cases in April 2026. Three attorneys, three courts. Here's what every law firm owner needs to do
Read issue →A critical flaw in Anthropic's MCP affects Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI tools. Here's the 3-step access audit for professional services firms.
Read issue →90% of lawyers use AI. Only 24% of firms have deployed it firm-wide. Wolters Kluwer's 2026 data explains the gap — and the 3 decisions that close it.
Read issue →A seven-step AI workflow cuts IRS notice resolution time from 35 days to 14 and saves accounting firms 22.5 hours per month. Here's how it works.
Read issue →Big Four firms committed $10B+ to AI but link only 25% of fees to outcomes. For boutique consulting firms, that gap is your competitive opening.
Read issue →McKinsey, BCG, and others spent $10 billion on AI — yet only 25% of consulting fees are outcome-linked. Here's your competitive opening as a small firm.
Read issue →Big Four firms cut graduate hiring 6–29% as AI replaces analyst work. For boutique consulting firms, that creates a time-limited hiring window.
Read issue →IRS AI now flags returns at scale — more CP2000 and CP14 notices are coming. A 7-step workflow cuts resolution from 35 days to 14.
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