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GenAI in practice - How firms use AI, featuring Rob Collings

AI can't do rules-based accounting work - but it can build automated workflows to boost efficiency and accuracy. Here’s how Rob Collings is creating and running an ‘AI-native finance team’ using GenAI.

Alastair Barlow

GenAI in practice - How firms use AI, featuring Dave Sellick

Dave Sellick’s building a client-facing data and insights app. Six months in, with no engineering background, he’s got his first clients trialling the MVP. Here’s how he’s done it.

Alastair Barlow

AI is probabilistic, but so are humans - and that’s a risk we’ve always been okay with

Measured risk isn’t reckless; in AI, it’s essential, and the firms who realise that are already striding ahead. They know that a little controlled risk will propel them forward and position them for future success.

Alastair Barlow

Is AI forcing accountants into the role of ‘system designer’?

As firms adopt AI, some become ‘builders’ while others simply ‘buy’. But is it just a matter of time before all accountants have to know how to build systems with AI?

Alastair Barlow

From AI-curious to AI-centric: where’s the value for firms that are serious about AI?

Apparently, 70% of firms are using AI, according to AccountancyAge. But how many of these firms have an AI strategy, rather than a scattergun approach? Strategy = returns. So let’s talk about how firms can get serious about AI.

Alastair Barlow

The business case for advisory as AI adoption grows

If AI is a “threat” to traditional accounting. What next? Advisory relies on human intelligence, but AI can help support and improve your delivery.

Alastair Barlow

12 AI tools and how accountants are using them today (part 2)

Frustrated by the lack of AI in accounting software? Here’s a list of other AI tools to use in your practice instead, and an example use case for each.

Alastair Barlow

12 AI tools and how accountants are using them today (part 1)

Frustrated by the lack of AI in accounting software? Here’s a list of other AI tools to use in your practice instead, and an example use case for each.

Alastair Barlow

How to become the top 1% of AI users in accounting in 30 minutes

Sebastian Trif, AI engineer and my cofounder at the AI Exchange, says accountants should “Be hyped on what you can do [with AI] in half an hour”. Here’s a list of ways to spend 30 minutes advancing your AI.

Alastair Barlow

AI’s not getting any smarter, so how can accountants get more value?

In accounting and finance, making gains with AI will come from breakthroughs in how we use the tech - not what the tech evolves to do.

Alastair Barlow

Is AI really any riskier than the platforms (and people) we work with today?

AI is a new frontier in accounting but you don’t need to be ‘brave’ to benefit. With the right guardrails, adopting AI is really no riskier than how you’re already working today.

Alastair Barlow

This chart will change the way your firm views AI

AI is a flexible, scalable tool. Any firm, big or small, can use it - no in-house tech teams required.

Alastair Barlow