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Briefcase Ledger, Sage Period Review and Intuit's job cuts || In The Loop
Billie McLoughlin, Eriona Bajrakurtaj and John Toon go a little AI heavy this week, with an MCP for AML checks, a decision-making model from TypeSafe and a new AI-native ledger from Briefcase, plus a chat with its co-founder Reuben Steenkamp. Billie welcomes Sage’s free Period Review for MTD for Inc...
The Disruptor Awards winners, plus the week's accounting tech news
Indi Tatla, John Toon and Ryan Pearcy are back together for another OGs episode, with two lots of Apron news, a big raise in Germany and the full run-down of this year’s Disruptor Awards. Xero has renamed Files to Documents and moved it into the Accounting menu, which John Toon calls the least contr...
Who trains the juniors if the bots do the prep? || Be In The Loop
Indi Tatla, John Toon and Ryan Pearcy are on the show together for the first time in months, and this week the AI conversation finally gets a bit more nuanced. Airwallex has launched T:0, an AI accounting platform for US startups that builds the chart of accounts as the business grows and reports bu...
Influencer Gate, the Rule of 40 and the Xero AGM || Be In The Loop
Ryan Pearcy is back in the chair, joined by Heather Smith and Indi Tatla for a bumper news episode, most of it about Xero and none of it comfortable. It starts with the reel. A paid influencer told her followers she had fed her Xero data into Claude and no longer needed the 800 pounds a month she sp...
When Accounting Becomes Someone Else's Feature || In The Loop
John Toon is joined by Kendrick Hair of Fishbowl and Leigh Stallard for a news episode about who ends up owning the client. Leigh opens on a LinkedIn post from Joshua at Reva, written after Starling took heat for putting books next to the current account. The more interesting move is embedding the s...
Xero Tax Errors, OpenAI Roll-Ups and Active Accounts Production | Be In The Loop
Eriona Bajrakurtaj, Alastair Barlow and John Toon go through the accounting tech week, and most of it comes back to the same question: is the thing being announced the thing that actually works? The headline everyone shared was OpenAI buying accounting firms. It has not. OpenAI took an equity positi...
The big AI companies do not use AI to do their own accounts. So why should you?
Indi Tatla is joined by Lara Manton and Billie McLoughlin for a run through the month’s accounting tech updates, most of which nobody would call exciting and all of which somebody will end up using. Two from Xero. The bills page gets the same full-page treatment invoices and quotes already had, with...
Intuit AI Write-Back, ApprovalMax Pricing and Telleroo Interest || Be In The Loop
Indi Tatla, Lara Manton and Robbie White on a week where almost every story turned out to be about payments. Intuit has taken its QuickBooks connectors in Claude and ChatGPT past read-only, so a business owner can raise and send an invoice from inside a chat window. Robbie calls the direction of tra...