Intuit Accountant Suite August 2026: AI Agents and MCP Are Now Live
QuickBooks AI agents for accounting firms went live in August 2026. Here's what Intuit Intelligence does and what to turn on first.
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QuickBooks AI agents for accounting firms went live in August 2026. Here's what Intuit Intelligence does and what to turn on first.
Read issue →Claude Memory now retains client confidentiality details by default for personal plan users. CPAs and attorneys need to audit and clear their accounts now.
Read issue →What accounting firm AI conversations at Boomer Circle Summit 2026 revealed — and what the takeaways mean for your 5–30 person CPA firm's AI strategy.
Read issue →Boomer Circle Summit 2026 ran August 17–20 in Kansas City. What accounting firm owners — attending or not — need to know about the AI decisions made there.
Read issue →NY's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act is in effect. Here's how to know if your professional services firm is in scope and what to do.
Read issue →87% of accounting firms are expanding into advisory services as AI handles data work. Here's the specific shift — what AI takes over and what CPAs do instead.
Read issue →88% of workers use AI regularly. Only 39% report improved profitability. The gap isn't the tool — it's how firms deploy it. Here's the mechanism and the fix.
Read issue →CLA grew from 3 to 100 citizen developers using existing staff — no engineers hired. Here's how to apply their model at a 10-30 person accounting firm in 2026.
Read issue →Crosby AI grew from $30M to $1B in contracts in 12 months with 45 attorneys. How the AI native law firm model works and what it means for your practice.
Read issue →ETAAC 2026 recommends Congress give IRS authority to regulate all paid tax preparers. For credentialed CPA firms, that's a competitive moat in the making.
Read issue →EY embedded Microsoft engineers in client delivery. Here's what that model means — and the boutique version of it — for smaller PS firms competing in 2026.
Read issue →Harvey is training AI on firm workflows, not just legal text. What the shift to firm-owned models means for practices under 50 attorneys in 2026.
Read issue →KPMG embedded Claude into its 276,000-employee platform in May 2026. Tax & Legal is live. What the Big Four AI alliance means for independent accounting firms.
Read issue →M365 Copilot's June 30 deadline is now a legal AI platform decision — Harvey is a native M365 agent. What law and accounting firms should do before July 1.
Read issue →Microsoft Work IQ APIs went GA June 16 — 10 MCP tools that let any AI agent query your M365 data. No new subscription. Here's what it means.
Read issue →Holland & Knight closed 17 law firm PE deals in 2026 with 100 more in the pipeline. Here's what the MSO deal wave means for independent law firms in 2026.
Read issue →Ron Baker — the godfather of value pricing — told 3,000 accountants at SNH 2026 that value pricing is no longer the answer. Here's what he recommends instead.
Read issue →July 6 is the last day to amend 2022-2024 returns under the OBBBA Section 174 reversal. CPAs have 17 days to screen clients and file. Here's the framework.
Read issue →SPI's 2026 benchmark of 509 PS firms confirms a 2x revenue growth gap. High-AI-maturity firms outperform on every metric. The #1 barrier isn't the software.
Read issue →Enterprise firms are folding AI revenue into their totals. Here's the four-step framework your firm should use to track AI's actual financial contribution.
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