In 2023, our speakers predicted AI wouldn't really impact the profession until 2035. In 2024, they said 2030. In 2025, 2027. The reality? It's happening now.
In part 3 of AI & Accountants 2026, Chris Easton, CEO of Applied Logic, unpacks:
• New Gemini and Claude models almost monthly, and his engineers about three times more productive with AI in their workflow
• Why vertical AI is the only defensible place for app builders while hyperscalers spend billions on the models
• How Jannie Wentzel's idea became Ketelo, an AI platform for governance, risk and compliance — kicked off late January, minimum viable product by April, customer deployment in May, launched in August
• Why the AI model is a small part of the build — the infrastructure around it supports governance, grounding AI in your data and keeping decisions auditable
• AI agents guiding third-party risk processes of as many as 200 tasks, and MCP servers that plug AI into your ERP or Gmail
• From reactive to proactive risk: continuous control monitoring, and the interest-rate signal that should have flagged trouble at Silicon Valley Bank a year before it collapsed
Essential listening for accountants seeking the niche where AI is an opportunity, not a threat.
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