
Sequoia Capital just called your accounting practice a market opportunity. They're not wrong.
Sequoia Capital named accounting a $50–80B disruption target. Their framework shows where CAS practices are exposed — and what's still defensible.
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Sequoia Capital named accounting a $50–80B disruption target. Their framework shows where CAS practices are exposed — and what's still defensible.

The traditional CAS org chart — juniors execute, seniors review, managers review the reviewers — was built for manual workflows. When AI collapses execution costs, those layers become drag, not quality control. Teams moving to single-owner systems see 40–70% cycle time reductions.
A viral video pitched "clarity as a service" as a brand-new business model. CAS practices have been sitting on this opportunity for years — you already have the data, the trust, and the relationship. Two AI tools make advisory deliverables practical right now.
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.
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.
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.