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75% of CPAs are nearing retirement. AI capability compression is bifurcating firm valuations into a K-shaped market — encoded knowledge and advisory capacity drive premiums, while compliance-heavy practices with knowledge locked in people's heads face a buyer pool that can now build from scratch for less.
During a webinar on AI-powered client coaching, a colleague shared a 25-question diagnostic survey in Excel. It was ugly, had scoring errors, and looked like what it was — a spreadsheet pretending to be a tool. Thirty seconds of prompting later, it was a polished interactive HTML page that captured, scored, and analysed responses. The quality ceiling on what you hand your clients just disappeared.
