Would you hire a $200/month employee?
Perplexity launched a $200/month AI agent that operates your existing software autonomously. The cost of a digital employee just collapsed — and your staffing math just changed with it.
What's Getting Automated
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1 person. 43 cars. Your practice still has a 1:8 ratio.
Waymo runs 3,000 autonomous vehicles with 70 human overseers — a 1:43 ratio. Your practice still runs at 1:8. The firms that redesign around a fundamentally different human-to-client ratio will set the economics everyone else has to match.
Google Cloud just validated the CAS AI playbook
Google Cloud launched an AI agent framework that mirrors the exact playbook forward-thinking CAS firms are already building — context engineering, multi-agent orchestration, and human-in-the-loop oversight. The enterprise validation is here.
A tech CEO woke up and realized AI had replaced him. Your practice is next.
A tech CEO's viral post — 80 million views — described the moment AI did his job better than he could. That same week, five companies launched autonomous bookkeeping products. The shift from 'helpful tool' to 'does the work' happened faster than anyone expected.
KPMG just showed your clients how to cut your fees
KPMG pressured Grant Thornton to cut audit fees by 14% — using AI as the negotiating lever. Your clients don't need to use AI themselves to deploy this playbook. They just need to know it exists.
The SaaSpocalypse just told CAS firms exactly what's coming
200 lines of markdown helped catalyze a $285 billion sell-off across enterprise software. The SaaSpocalypse wasn't a tech story — it was a pricing model story. And it's the same pricing model most CAS firms are running on.
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