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Thomson Reuters' 2026 report says 74% of tax clients want their firms using AI. Two-thirds have no idea if their firm is doing it. The fix is making the AI work you're already doing visible — one sentence at the start of your next client meeting.
For six weeks, the AI tool most CAS firms now run on was producing degraded output, and the vendor didn't know until customers complained. Three tests every CAS firm should build this month — drift detection, portability evaluation, and version trail accountability — to know when your AI vendor breaks something quietly.
KPMG cut 7% of its US audit partners. OpenAI reclaimed the model frontier with GPT-5.5 the same week Anthropic published a quality post-mortem on Claude Cowork, and Salesforce, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google all shipped agent-first infrastructure in five days. The pattern beneath the news: partner equity, vendor strategy, and per-seat pricing are no longer safe harbors.
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.
