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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...
Firm Models, Big Budgets and Nobody checking || In The Loop
Almost half of UK firms say they plan to spend up to £100,000 on AI this year. John Toon runs the numbers on what that actually buys and does not believe a word of it. Indi, John Toon and Eriona Bajrakurtaj work through a month where the same question keeps surfacing from different directions. If so...
Xero's C-Suite Churn, FreeAgent x Joiin and Vibe Coding the Ledger || In The Loop
John Toon is joined by Ian Gregory of Advancetrack and Billie McLoughlin to work through July’s accounting tech news, and it turns into a run of arguments about what a general ledger is actually for. Billie opens on the batch newly certified for the Xero App Store. Garfield, the UK’s first SRA-regul...
Starling Expense Cards, Copilot Skills in Excel, Pilot Meridian and Puzzle AI Close || In The Loop
Ryan Pearcy is joined by Kevin Fitzgerald and Leigh Stallard for a bumper week of accounting tech news, and a period close nobody can stop talking about. Starling has rolled out expense cards, ringfenced spending spaces and read-only access for bookkeepers and accountants. Kevin sees a bank pulling ...