076 2023 New Tech For Accountants Roundup - Part 2

We are back to pillage your bank account with even more tech that you don't need. We're doing the second part of a.

Roundup of the new tech that was most engaged with most clicked on from my newsletter for the past six months.

So that whole newsletter you've been reading for the last six months, absolute waste of your time.

I've been giving you the Cliff Notes version now of the most interesting things.

Let's do it.

Let's get nerdy.

App overload. I feel ya. I feel you, dawg. It's getting worse these days and it's never gonna keep getting better.

And it is one I don't know.

Aspect of what I do where I'm like, hey, this is a place that I can help. I think is I can weed through a lot of the stuff that doesn't.

Matter and the stuff just like double down on the stuff that I think is most relevant because there's just like.

Hundreds of things coming out every single day. So let's do it. Inkle.

IO. I'm sorry, I said that twice. The chat based CPA for hundreds of.

Us cross border companies. Pardon me. So this is an accounting firm, but it looks like a product which honestly there's a big market for right now.

Like they found a way to communicate.

What they do differently.

And we talked about the other day with like marketing around AI, there's a growing number of companies doing this, like slapping AI on the stuff that we do and framing it as this sort of new novel thing, which maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

But we just got to get out of the, out of the rut of.

Calling ourselves old timey accounting firms.

Like be anything but that for a.

Specific type of person and people will.

Pay you more and get more excited. Ply, ply, ply IO man, this one is supes cool. So this is. It lets you build features into the.

Apps that you already use. I know, I know. Get excited.

So it's a Chrome extension and the Chrome extension will like inject things into.

The app and then when you click on that button or something like that, you can customize that activity. So like for example Gmail, when you're authoring an email in Gmail, you have all those buttons that are already there. You can add buttons that do custom things like kick off some other workflow or something like that.

And this works anywhere in any of.

The apps that you use.

So is there an annoying thing that your practice management system doesn't do that.

You wish it would do apply? Could be a Way to get you there in a newsletter.

Earlier this year, after Canopy launched their.

Generative AI thing inside of email authoring, I showed people how to create a ply button that could ping OpenAI and generate an email the same way that Canopy does. So are there any apps that you use? I mean, I guess I didn't say QuickBooks or Xero, like man, our accounting systems, there's probably a bunch of this stuff. What are the features that you wish that they would add? It's possible that ply is a way to get you there. Okay, recall.

Recall is like a personal knowledge storing thing and they added a browser extension.

That will let you add anything on the page you're looking at into your kind of personal encyclopedia. That could be articles on the page, could be the transcripts of YouTube videos.

But interestingly, like as we're talking about.

What the future of AI enabled things look like, the secret sauce is ultimately what's the context underneath that chatbot or whatever? And building your own customized body of context that could be your own proprietary expertise about what you do, that could be the client's data and giving them ways to interact with that. That gets really interesting, particularly in how.

The boundaries are drawn around those different bodies of context.

If I made a chat bot for my team and I'm a manager, that would be one body of context about like the sops for our company and how I approach certain problems, great. But I as a person am a lot more than that.

And recall is an interesting way to.

Like build this personal kind of encyclopedia of all of the things that you know and the way that then becomes searchable and accessible. So maybe a different like chat experience is one that has like consumed the people you most respect and the folks that you want to learn from. And that body of context kind of becomes then like your personalized advisor. Right? So anytime there's like that really interesting thing that you read and you're like, man, this is such a helpful framing that I need to remember. You add that to this kind of body of knowledge and that informs the way that you interact with it down the road. Like as we're thinking about AI personal assistance, which are here today in some very basic forms, but will ultimately be really helpful down the road and do a lot of our work for us too. Making those useful will be about the management of the underlying information. So what was interesting to me with here with recall, it makes it super easy to just capture things within that context so that then you've got it. Okay, Raycast, if you're A Mac nerd. You need to be using Raycast. It is a quick switcher, kind of like Alfred. If you've used Alfred, a quick switcher at the desktop level that works across like all of your apps. I would absolutely kill for something like this on Windows. I wish it would be built into.

Windows, but it isn't.

Anyways Ray Cash just got a big old upgrade by doing some new AI stuff. By the way, all this stuff links to all this stuff are in the show notes.

Google announced generative email with AI. Not sure if they've actually shipped this yet.

They only actually announced it for like workplace plans. So that is your business version, not your general free Gmail accounts.

And it's actually pretty much exactly what.

Canopy shipped where you can provide it with a prompt and say write an email that tells Steve his invoice is overdue. Be polite, just give him something like that and it will write like a you know, email based on the prompt that you provide it. You, you can also select bits of text and and ask it to make it like more friendly or more stern or kind of those modifiers. So basically the same thing that can.

Be did but now built into Gmail. True Wind this is another accounting firm.

That is like doing this kind of like AI marketing spin. So the header is AI powered bookkeeping and finance. For startups using AI to power bookkeeping and finance means less errors, more transparency. Transparency and faster monthly close. Get peace of mind with TrueWind.

They may be doing some cool unique tech stuff. The end of the day they're an accounting firm.

Like the value of what we're providing is the accountability of the output and that it is correct. And if right now your landing page just says I'm an accounting firm and we've been here for 70 years or we really help our clients sleep at.

Night, it's not enough anymore because that's.

The same thing that's on everybody else's landing page. Think about what would be attractive to the type of client that you want. Like if they are tech folks, if they value someone who is forward looking man, this is a good time to be talking about AI chat thing.

This is what I am using for.

All of my chatbots right now. You've probably seen me talk about it. The main issue with the custom chatbot builders that you run into right now is they are built on GPT 3.5.

That is the old model of GPT. For these to be worthwhile and for a chatbot to stick to a specific bit of context you provide that is.

For it to not fall back to its general knowledge like chat GPT uses, it has to be on GPT4. GPT 3.5 will not do that reliably. So chat thing, there's like a $50 a month tier where you can build like up to six bots and they work on GPT4. That is the important distinction. Stop using 3.5. It is old tech at this point. It has a lot of limitations. Hallucination is like 85% better with GPT4. That is it does it 85% less. If you are interested in building a custom chatbot, if I did it today, I would use chat thing. That being said, both Microsoft and Google have announced their own version of kind of sort of the same thing. So this will become commonplace. The main thing to be thinking about right now is what context should I be capturing today that will ultimately live behind a chatbot that could be meeting transcripts like that could be a rationale to be recording meetings. Ultimately if, if you don't want to use this yet, you want to wait till Microsoft launches their own version. The day that launches. That's only going to be as good as all the context that you can put behind it. So the thing to be thinking about today is, is there anything I should be capturing that would be useful when that day comes? Are there blog posts that I should be writing so that when that day comes I can connect all those blog posts to it? Should I be making videos? Chat thing, you can point to a URL of a video and it will pull the transcript in. Is there a daily podcast you should be running that will ensure that you have a huge amount of context when that day does come.

Okay, up next, translucent IO. It is like a multi entity layer.

Over your vanilla accounting file.

So age old problem. You got to go up to a.

Mid market tool like you know, Netsuite or Intact or something like that for it to really have like built in. Multi entity handling, right?

This is kind of an in betweener.

You put it on top of your zero, your QuickBooks files, that sort of thing and it will serve as that kind of multi company layer. Let you do eliminations, let you search.

Across those different company files, do like.

Group reporting, you even like some roll up analytic type of stuff. That's the idea is it's like this light consolidation layer so that you don't have to sell your soul and go up into that mid market tool.

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There's no other way around it. That's just exactly what it is.

If you like notion or if you're a Microsoft nerd and you've been considering.

Exploring notion and you usually go to the Microsoft version first, this will be like, you know, a sixth grader drawing notion with a crayon.

Kind of like how Teams was when.

It first copied Slack. Right. I'm being mean. That's just how these things usually go. It's like a feature like version of the Real Sauce.

But the value of keeping it in.

Microsoft now ultimately is we have Microsoft 365 around the corner, which is going to be like a very interconnected kind of AI fabric across all of your Microsoft stuff. So I can understand, like, I've never been a Microsoft guy, but there's never been a more compelling reason than there is today to keep things all Microsoft because Microsoft 3, 6, no Microsoft, what is it? Copilot will like be able to interconnect all those things in a really meaningful way. So for example, if you're responding to a client email and you just had something in your Microsoft loop that was some note to yourself, and those things are somehow related, it could even use that to inform how you reply to an email. And that's only possible if all those things live in the same system. So I think that one's actually out now. I think you can actually start using Loop.

But this is the Biggie Windows Copilot. That is Copilot like as a side.

Panel on your Windows desktop. And this actually just came out in like Early Access 2 or 3.

3.

No less than that, like a week ago. So if, if you are one of the brave souls that runs like this super early Windows builds, you can get this right now. And it is a side panel on the right hand side of Windows 11. And it's basically the same as the little chat assistant that you get in like Bing, but it can access some local system stuff. So. So for example, if you're running Microsoft Edge, that side discussion can like summarize and chat about the stuff that is open in Microsoft Edge. But you can, you can actually do that just inside of Edge right now, not even with this Microsoft Copilot. So the thing built into. Sorry, Windows Copilot. So the thing built into Windows will be just like the Bing chat thing, but it will access today. It accesses like your window setting, Windows Windows settings. So finding like how to change a thing in your system settings in Windows is a nightmare. So like the example they give is like you just say turn on dark mode or turn off, turn off dark mode, turn on power saving mode, pause notifications for three hours, stuff like that. Like those are good examples. Like I think that's fundamentally better to do through a chat assistant than to have to find the exact setting. My understanding is it will also do some stuff with Microsoft apps that you have open. So like Word, Excel, that sort of thing. But the real meat here, where I ultimately hope that they get to, is this can have visibility ultimately into the stuff that is on your desktop.

I'm looking at you stinky old tax software or any other program that you have open.

Like the holy Grail is like ChatGPT on your desktop, an assistant that can see the stuff on your desktop and.

Then eventually click and type on the.

Things on your desktop. We've talked about this on the show in the past. This will be a huge unlock. GPT4 already has built in capabilities to.

Be able to see things, to see.

Images, to understand all the UI elements on your screen. And it is not outlandish to think that you could pair a chat assistant with like the help docs for a piece of software and, and it would be capable of itself logicing its way through doing something on a program. So you think about QuickBooks. It can see all the options, you can tell it what you want it to do. It can see all the source documentation, like help documentation for that app. And out of the box it seems like it ought to be able to do some pretty helpful things. But then the step beyond that is like, with just a little bit of training of like, here's how you do bank reconciliation, here's a PDF, here's QuickBooks. I don't think we're that far from agents being able to help us to do that stuff. There will be like plugins for Windows Copilot that is kind of similar to like ChatGPT's plugins, where developers can make things specifically for it to do specific tasks. But the holy grail is when it can just see what is on your desktop. There doesn't have to be a custom plugin built for it. It can see this stuff on your desktop, it can reference the help documentation and it can do tasks according to your instructions. It can ultimately like learn and get.

Better at specific tasks.

Like imagine, you know, the way that we share prompts for Chat GPT right now imagine sharing a prompt and that could be 100 page prompt, could be a huge prompt. But imagine sharing a prompt that will instruct your Windows Copilot thing that's right there on your desktop on how to reconcile a QuickBooks bank account using a bank statement, right? I mean like we're pretty close. Like that's like next 24 months, I'd probably say, like we're going to have that stuff and that will fundamentally change the way that we work. And it is really exciting. So the Fact that that assistant that is built into Windows just came out in early access like a week ago. It is a big deal and I'm very excited for it.

Okay, Zero Tax AI One Stop Shop.

I'm reading here One Stop Shop for AI Assisted Tax Help.

Hashtag Tax GPT. Somebody was going to do it. You're mad, but somebody was going to do it. Interesting. This is an accounting firm. Interesting how they frame this. You can chat with a bot or you can call and chat with an AI assistant.

So you can call and it will take your voice and it will create a transcript and it will query that language model and then it will generate a voice and reply and you can do that over the phone.

You can also talk to an expert because you know what it is, is an accounting firm.

And this is how they get you. They have a 100 free Q A bot and then for $5 per question.

A tax pro will review the answer. But ultimately like they want, they're trying.

To get you to come in and be a client.

And I think the knee jerk reaction here is just, it feels slimy, but I don't at the end of the.

Day, like I, I'm kind of over that. Like I understand we are in a fight for people's attention these days and that's just how it is. I think ERC actually helped me get over this. And we've seen, you know, obviously ERC so non us folks. Like this was a pandemic era tax incentive that put a lot of money in people's pockets, some of whom were the people they intended. And it was a great way to get clients like to, to open up access to this for them. The right way was a big opportunity. But now we have, now this whole system is being like mega, mega scammed and it's awful. And I get a voicemail almost every single day saying I'm entitled to, you know, 26,000 per employee or something like that. But that doesn't like devalue the ERC and what it is. Like it is really valuable and if you do it the right way, you need to be doing it for your clients. But we're stuck between like this scummy narrative, right? And AI is totally going to be the same thing. There's going to be companies that come out and they say, hey, good news, we figured out how to completely do a tax return with AI.

And in reality there may be nothing.

Behind the scenes there. There may be something cool behind the scenes there, but in reality there's probably a bunch of offshore Tax pros. Like it's probably just a productized model of getting stuff done at a higher volume. But you raise money and you, you rustle up PR around like something that is sexy and that is, you know, an AI version of this. And I used to just see this stuff and get mad.

I think the reality is like we.

Need to acknowledge like this gets people's attention.

So find the non scummy way to do it.

Like we talked about marketing for your niche around AI. Like give them a few practical ways that they can truly use AI today in a helpful way and then you're not leaning into the scum, you're like actually helping people. Right.

Okay. Puzzle. Puzzle is an accounting ledger and they've.

Raised a good amount of money. Actually a couple of weeks ago they launched quote unquote fully autonomous accounting. And it's some more like AI sorcery to help with classification in kind of.

The accounting ledger landscape. Puzzle is probably the leader, you know.

After QuickBooks and Xero. If there's anybody in the last five years that has picked up momentum, probably depends who you ask. FreshBooks is kind of doubling down on their product and on accountants. But FreshBooks have been around for a long time, but they are like newly reinvesting and being a good tool for accountants. Puzzle in terms of new tools is probably the one with the most momentum right now that could, you know, maybe take some market share from QuickBooks and Xero. They're dabbling a bit in supporting accountants. If you have clients who are like forward looking, like modern tech Stack could be worth checking out Puzzle as a potential solution.

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Your clients with a modern, easy to use portal that helps you get the info you need when you need it. That is Canopy. Check out the link in the Show Notes to learn more. This episode is sponsored in part by Client Hub. Come on in. Recently on Tails from the Hub, the team at super smart accounting firm adopted Client Hub. And recently I talked about the trade offs of optimizing for the firm experience versus the client experience.

You may have seen some discussion on.

That super smart accounting firm.

They were thinking along the same lines.

What they ultimately decided they needed an option that optimized the client experience, that exchange of information. They chose Client Hub because it was designed for an amazing client experience and their clients love it. They love the mobile app, they love the intuitive interface. Even better, client communications no longer scattered all around and siloed email inbox. It's all in one place. Everyone describes Client Hub as simple, intuitive and efficient.

Everyone Ask anyone.

That's what they say. That's the magic client hub. And it transformed this firm, buddy. This year they are raising prices because that client experience is off the charts.

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Right?

Hey, that's it for this week's tales from the hub. Check out ClientHub ClientHub app or the link in the Show Notes receipt. Cat. I'll tell you why this was exciting.

To me and evidently exciting other people. Cause a lot of folks clicked on.

It is just really simple, low cost receipt management systems.

Like I just have a hard time finding good ones and this is like a modern solution for getting that stuff done. I just find myself in situations where I have to give clients like a low lift way to do this stuff. You'll always have like in my mind the way this stuff has always been is you have Dext, which is like this huge, really sweaty, really powerful solution, but overkill for a lot of stuff. And then you have Google Drive or Dropbox on the other end of the spectrum, right? Where it's like all manual and better than nothing but like somebody give me.

Something in the middle.

And some products do a version of this. Like Ramp does a version of this. But I don't want the price of my receipt management solution. To be credit like needing to have a card or something like that. Right. Like I just want a no frills like thing that will do this stuff well for me. Receipt cat's a new one that I don't know could tick that box.

Scan Straight Teehee.

Okay, I made this app but people got excited about it. It was a lot of people clicked on it. The problem that it solves is people sending you smartphone pics of documents.

And yes, they shouldn't be doing this.

In the first place. They should be uploading stuff to your portal. They should be sending it to you the approved way. But sometimes that just doesn't happen and you don't feel like being the a hole that's going to make them go back and take pictures of 45 pages of things again. So Scan Straight is an elegant solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Basically you just chuck all of your image files at it. It will crop so it'll crop the image down to just show the like the actual document in the picture. It will like do the de skewing and make it higher contrast. So like to compare this to going into Acrobat with an image you have to like manually kind of try to shrink it on all the boundaries the right way and then rotate it. But then it doesn't do any contrast stuff and then you run into the problem of all these images being different sizes in a PDF. So like you scroll from page to page and you get to what was a smartphone pick and it's like humongous right? Like 100 times the size Scan Straight.

It runs locally on your machine.

So none of your client goodies are going to the cloud. It is a one time buy. You download it Windows only and you can chuck as many images into it that you want until the end of time. And it will do its best to give you tidied up PDFs of just the document works reasonably well. There's situations where like it just won't work. Like if you have a white paper on a super white background and it can't find the boundaries generally works pretty well. And it is 40 bucks that is it. I like I have spent entire afternoons on this stuff in my day. I've made exactly no money on this. I'm just trying to be helpful. Okay?

Speaking of people being helpful, 30 days of AI.

Ashley Francis, a CPA is like developed this course that will help accountants get up to speed on AI. All of their they are all sold out right now she limits how many people get in each month, but I'll put the link in the show notes. Pay attention to it. We all need to be investing a bit in AI. This could be a good way to get members of your team up to be up to speed also, and I don't know how many people are helping accountants learn AI right now. Right.

Like Ashley myself, we need more gay digits AI. We talked about this one a week or two ago.

They just launched their chat assistant product. In fact, if you just go to the digits homepage now like that is kind of the core of how they present their product. You connect digits to your accounting ledger and then you can chat with can.

Do some pretty cool stuff out of the box.

Will be very interesting to see how this develops longer term because ultimately there are a lot of very smart people that think that the future of software is not user interfaces, it's just chat and voice. And I get why that's hard to kind of get your head around right now. How will I do all the things that I do today just with chat and voice? But if we start training in that direction, it's important to think about like what does the accounting ledger look like now? Like what is, like how do we get things in and out of it? This is kind of a really interesting, you know, very early first look at what chat with an accounting ledger looks like.

Cash warden. Bookkeeping has never been so easy. Bookkeeping like a chat. So this is an accounting firm that.

Just created a novel interface for clients to interact with them. So like everything is over chat or over a telegram bot or over sms. I would rather right now be like the accounting firm that works on WhatsApp than just vanilla accounting firm. Right. Like that. I think this is novel. Like they found an interesting angle on specialization that will resonate with a specific type of person and that's really cool. That's what we all need to be striving for. That's better than just, I don't know, the vanilla accounting firm. Right. So like what's a cool, like interesting specialization angle that will get you in front of the people that you want to work with?

Simply automate as a company doing RPA.

Automation, that is robotic process automation for accounting firms. So the stuff they talk about is like how to automate, you know, filing a bunch of extensions with your tax software and that sort of thing. The beauty of RPA is those are desktop based bots that can do anything you can see and touch with your, your peepers and fingers on your screen which make them perfectly suited for automating. Stuff like in your tax software that doesn't have an API and there's no other way to automate it. Growing number of vendors in this space, like specialists that will come in and build stuff for you makes a ton of sense in high volume situations I think where there's a single process that gets repeated a lot. Think about stuff like filing extensions, pulling reporting every single day, maybe syncing information like client information to a tax app that doesn't integrate with anything else. This is a company that has experience doing just that if that's something you want to explore.

Carbon AI so shortly after Canopy launched.

Their generative AI stuff, Carbon rolled out with theirs some really cool stuff. Summarizing emails and comments. You can compose an email with AI from scratch. Really cool.

It will auto prioritize your inbox based on the perceived spiciness of an email's contents.

So without having to drill into each email it will automatically flag things high importance to pull your attention to that. It'll also help you do stuff like adjust your tone if you need something to sound more friendly or direct. And honestly maybe the biggest thing here is they are the first one that supports replies, generative email replies. And that means the thread previous thread of the email is going to a language model to inform that response. And the easy application that we're seeing more now is composing something new from scratch. The harder one is to take into account more context in the reply. But that's ultimately the really valuable thing is the generative email replies that take into account the email thread, the files in the file system where their projects are at all these different things. And this is a, this is a significant technical hurdle. So like for example, they are using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service rather than just the OpenAI APIs to enable a greater level of security. And this is kind of a first step to like really intelligent generative replies, which may be the very most valuable thing we get out of AI for us in the next five years is like the super, super intelligent suggested reply that like attaches all the files that it thinks the client needs and generates a bank letter that it thinks will answer the question based on the hundred other bank letters that you have in the file system that you've already sent out in the past. Like that stuff's going to be gold, especially as accountants right now. Like if you pull accountants and ask them what is the one thing that you want a bot to do for you? Like 50% of them say email. So this was a killer update from Carbon. Congrats to the team on getting that one out.

Two more. We got charcoal desk here and it is a sexy, sexy stand up desk.

With like a little pulsating light when it's telling you to stop being lazy and get up off your butt. I geek on really fancy desks. I've shown a few of them and.

My stuff and I've still just got this like kind of vanilla fully desk and it's okay but man, sometimes you.

See like the super nice metal one there was like a concrete one going.

Around for a while. Ones with like embedded little displays in the desk. I don't know, I may need to.

Do an upgrade soon but charcoal, this is a pretty cool one. Appstream.

Last one. So the nerds at Growth Lab, which.

Is that's an accounting practice now have.

A service for accounting firms.

They call it Fully Managed Automations for.

Accountants where they come in, they do a lot of the stuff that we.

Talk about here like building, you know, API connectors to sync data from A to B.

They come in, they process map that.

Stuff for you and they help you develop those automations within your firm so that you don't just have to keep listening to me about it and wonder but can actually like get some of that stuff done for you like execute on it for you.

Oh they've got some pre built Automations automatically accept QBO0 invites Bank2FA code rerouting to your team chat.

Oh baby.

So yeah, they're an accounting firm that.

Like went big on automating stuff for themselves. Now they're automating that stuff for other firms to.

Pretty cool.

I like to see that.

Okay, that was part two.

I promise.

We're done.

That's it.

No more shiny object.

Like I get it.

This was probably hard to get through your bank account. Might be taking a toll now. I may have just derailed your entire afternoon.

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