The useful question about AI in a firm is not which tool is best. It is what the work is worth once a machine can draft it, what you are now responsible for when a client connects their books to one, and which jobs you should keep doing by hand.
This hub is The Firm’s reading on those questions, written for the people who run practices: what practitioners are actually building, where AI helps and where to hold back, and what it does to your fees.
Updated 11 November 2026 · 24 pieces
The firms that win with AI will feel more human, not less 30 April 2026 
Mastering AI in practice: Michael Wood's straight-talking guide 29 November 2025 
When AI replaces your work… but gets it completely wrong 29 November 2025 
To double its clients, Praevo is automating the back office 11 November 2026 
What "AI native" actually means for a small accounting firm 10 November 2026 
How firms build a Xero Practice Manager dashboard with Claude 10 November 2026 
Training your team on AI in 30 days: a week-by-week plan 10 November 2026 
Vibe coding your first app: a practical guide for accountants 29 September 2026 
AI client onboarding for accounting firms: what to hand off 27 September 2026 
ChatGPT prompts for bookkeepers: 15 for work the ledger can't do 27 September 2026 
10 MCP servers accountants can connect to AI today 27 September 2026 
How to assess a new AI model without losing a week to it 4 September 2026 
Why I built our AI systems in-house instead of buying them 7 August 2026 
How I built a tax intake tool in forty minutes with eleven prompts 31 July 2026 
How to scope an AI project so it actually ships 31 July 2026 
Real firms, real builds: what accountants are creating with AI vibe coding right now 24 July 2026 
The AI month-end close, step by step 22 July 2026 
The Python scripts accountants are quietly writing (and how AI writes them for you) 22 July 2026 
Speech-to-text for accountants: talk three times faster than you type 22 July 2026 
Agentic AI in accounting, explained (before a vendor explains it to you) 22 July 2026 
AI meeting assistants for accountants and bookkeepers: what works 22 July 2026 %20scale(1.45)'%2F%3E%3Cpolygon%20points%3D'136.43%200%20136.43%2041.13%20113.69%2041.13%20113.69%2082.27%2090.95%2082.27%2090.95%20123.4%2022.74%20123.4%2022.74%2061.7%200%2061.7%200%200'%20fill%3D'%23161515'%20transform%3D'translate(42%2030)%20scale(0.28)'%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E)
AI for accountants: what actually works Which tools work in a firm, plus an adoption playbook. %20scale(1.45)'%2F%3E%3Cpolygon%20points%3D'136.43%200%20136.43%2041.13%20113.69%2041.13%20113.69%2082.27%2090.95%2082.27%2090.95%20123.4%2022.74%20123.4%2022.74%2061.7%200%2061.7%200%200'%20fill%3D'%23ADC2E1'%20transform%3D'translate(560%2030)%20scale(0.28)'%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E)
AI in Practice Summit, June 2026 All 17 June sessions: summaries, key lessons and transcripts. %20scale(1.45)'%2F%3E%3Cpolygon%20points%3D'136.43%200%20136.43%2041.13%20113.69%2041.13%20113.69%2082.27%2090.95%2082.27%2090.95%20123.4%2022.74%20123.4%2022.74%2061.7%200%2061.7%200%200'%20fill%3D'%23161515'%20transform%3D'translate(42%2030)%20scale(0.28)'%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E)
AI in Practice Summit, November 2026 The next one, online, on 11 and 12 November. Got a question this hub doesn’t answer? Ask The Firm and a practitioner will answer it in the newsletter.
