Indi, John Toon and Eriona Bajrakurtaj work through a month where the same question keeps surfacing from different directions. If software can file it, who checked it?
In the US, CLA has partnered with Digits to build and train its own model on its client base and workflows, which raises the question UK firms are starting to ask out loud about their own ledger. Sage put the review layer question in a room with a round table on embedded accounting, picking up the campaign Lucy Cohen has been running in public. And FreeAgent has enabled MTD quarterly filing from the mobile app, which is the right call for a mobile-first cohort and removes a piece of friction that was arguably doing a job.
Also in this one: Lord Vallance takes the chair of a new AI taskforce while funding comes out of other science, more than 120 millionaires ask to be taxed more, and the small business employment figures show a labour market that no longer looks national. Plus product updates from MIMO and Katana.
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Chapters
00:00 Welcome, and what is in this episode
03:17 CLA is training its own model rather than buying one
10:36 Lucy Cohen and the review layer nobody has built
17:55 What UK firms are actually spending their AI budget on
24:26 A new AI taskforce, and the models we do not own
29:24 More than 120 millionaires ask to be taxed more
37:43 Small business employment and twelve labour markets
42:52 Mimo launches VAT review
45:10 Katana MCP goes live, Amazon FBM arrives natively
46:14 FreeAgent brings MTD filing to mobile
49:08 Wrap