
Where to Place Your First AI Agent in Accounting
Your first agent shouldn't live inside your accounting platform. Start where the door is already open.
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Your first agent shouldn't live inside your accounting platform. Start where the door is already open.

Accenture just cut 11,000 and trained 70,000 in AI — what CEO Julie Sweet called "exiting people where reskilling isn't viable." McKinsey's data says only 14% of firms have leaders like that. If your practice's AI investment isn't producing results, the bottleneck isn't your tools or your team. It's you.

Most CAS practices are using AI to solve a cost problem. PwC's April research shows that's the 80% position — and it caps your upside. Here's what the 20% are doing instead, and why your niche is the prerequisite for getting there.

PwC and Accenture both restructured around AI this week. Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 and quietly moved enterprise billing to per-token pricing. OpenAI bought its way into personal finance. Here's what a week like this means if you're running a CAS practice.