Free skills training, industry research, and hands-on tools for a profession being rebuilt by AI — vendor-neutral, honest, and safe with client data. No catch.
Talent development for the AI-era practice: structured learning tracks and class modules for accountants and firm teams, paired with copy-paste prompt playbooks and browser tools. Start with the foundations, then work into the tasks that eat your week.
Five tracks from AI foundations to firm-wide rollout, each pairing short lessons with the prompts to apply them.
See the curriculum →What today's AI actually does in a practice, where it fails, and how to get output you can trust.
Open module 1 →The essential module: confidentiality, §7216, and how to use AI without risking client PII.
Open the module →The applied half of the Academy — copy-paste AI workflows for Claude & Gemini, reusable and PII-safe, aimed at the client comms, advisory, and judgment work your accounting software won't do.
Build a per-client AI that remembers the whole file and enforces quote-first, current-year, PII-safe rules.
Hand the AI both sides and make it hunt the difference — unmatched, timing, duplicates, oddities.
Generate a full friendly → firm → final escalation ladder in one go. Professional, never awkward.
Turn an IRS notice or jargon into a calm client email — and know what to ask for next.
Turn a P&L into a client-ready story: what moved, why, and what to ask — the advisory upsell.
Month-end close reviewer and a 1099 / contractor-classification check. Browse the full library.
Instant, no-signup calculators and utilities that run entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Fill it in, download a clean PDF. Logo, line items, tax, notes — totals do themselves.
Open →Add tax to a price, or reverse it to find the tax hiding inside a total.
Open →Net profit in, 2026 SE tax out — Social Security cap, Medicare, and your deductible half.
Open →1099 / self-employed? Estimate your 2026 quarterly estimated-tax payment.
Open →Find your margin and markup, or the price you need to hit a target margin.
Open →Log income and expenses, auto-total by category, then export CSV or print.
Open →Log trips and total your deduction with the official 2026 IRS mileage rates.
Open →Scan and redact client PII — SSNs, EINs, card & account numbers — before pasting into ChatGPT.
Open →Enter open invoices and get an instant aging report — buckets, totals, and percent past due.
Open →Debit AI's flagship, living list of the 100 AI startups reshaping accounting, bookkeeping, tax & audit — grouped into 13 categories with funding signals, plus a weekly "movers" radar.
All 100 companies, from autonomous ledgers and AI tax preparers to audit copilots and AI-native firms. Updated every Friday.
Explore the list →This week's movers: funding rounds, launches, and acquisitions across the 100.
See the movers →Who's buying accounting firms — and what those firms are buying next. Private equity, mergers, multiples, and the AI actually being deployed inside the profession. Updated every Monday.
Every major PE investment and firm merger, with terms, multiples, and the APS structure behind them. From TowerBrook–EisnerAmper to KKR–Crowe.
See the deals →The AI firms actually put into production — deployments, spend, equity stakes, and the pilots that quietly died. Weighted to the mid-market, not the Big Four.
See the moves →In the works: a directory of the small and mid-sized accounting firms modernizing with AI — who they are, what they run, and how they're growing. Subscribe to be first to see it.
A living directory of AI-forward SMB accounting firms. Want your firm considered, or want early access? Reply to any newsletter issue.
Coming soonEvery Friday: the week in AI + accounting tech, the ATS100 movers, and new Academy modules as they ship. Free.