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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.
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.
AI is eliminating the repetitive work that used to train junior accountants. That solves your staffing crisis today and hollows out your pipeline tomorrow. The firms that solve this first build an unassailable talent advantage.
