The Nexairi Dispatch · Friday, June 5, 2026 · Issue #23
Your firm uses AI. It has no policy for it.
Thomson Reuters surveyed 1,700 accounting pros. Most use AI daily. Most firms have no written rule about any of it.
Good morning, friends. Thomson Reuters surveyed 1,700 accounting pros: 77% use AI for tax research, but 70% of their firms have no written policy for it. AI led US job cut reasons in May for the third straight month, and two platforms built for accounting firms shipped this week. Make it a good Friday.
📊 ACCOUNTING — Where accounting firms actually use GenAI right now
What happened: Thomson Reuters surveyed 1,700 tax and accounting professionals in early 2025 on GenAI adoption across six job categories. Tax research led at 77%. Document review, client communication drafts and data entry all cleared 50%.
Why it matters: Seventy percent of those same firms have no written AI policy. Staff feed client data into tools with no guidance on what's OK to share, no review requirements and no documentation trail. For practices handling tax returns and financial statements, that's not a future compliance problem. It's a client data exposure happening right now.
What to watch: Watch whether state CPA boards or the AICPA move first on minimum AI policy requirements. That 70% number is a peer benchmark. When most of your peers haven't acted yet, the benchmark makes waiting feel safer, not more urgent.
⚡ ACCOUNTING — Ramp just shipped an AI system built for the monthly close
What happened: Ramp launched Stack on June 3, an AI operating system built for accounting firms. It automates the monthly close and was tested on more than 200 accounting tasks by working accountants before launch. Every decision it makes is reviewable and auditable. Free through August 2026.
Why it matters: Most AI tools that reach accounting firms were built for something else. Stack was built for the monthly close from the ground up. That's a different starting point than asking Copilot or ChatGPT to help with reconciliations — and a harder one to dismiss.
What to watch: Whether an AI system built specifically for the accounting close holds up under real firm conditions, and whether the free window through August is long enough for firms to actually evaluate it.
Outside Nexairi
Open accounting positions jumped from 5 to 17 per company — Accounting Today
A new survey shows accounting talent shortages got worse year over year. The average firm now carries 17 open accounting roles, up from five. That gap gets harder to close when AI is changing what the entry-level job actually looks like.
Wolters Kluwer and OpenAI expand their enterprise AI deal — CPA Practice Advisor
The two companies are expanding their deal to push AI into Wolters Kluwer's professional tools. Wolters Kluwer serves more than 6 million accounting and legal professionals. When their software gets an AI upgrade, it reaches a lot of practitioners at once.
Suralink launches AI platform for accounting firms with Claude and Copilot built in — CPA Practice Advisor
Suralink shipped a platform with five dedicated agents and integrations for both Claude and Microsoft Copilot. If your firm's client engagement workflow is still mostly email threads and shared drives, this is worth a look.
Verizon CEO says AI will replace a large share of customer service roles — Bloomberg
Verizon's CEO said AI will handle a large share of customer service positions while keeping overall satisfaction up. He's one of several executives this year willing to say specifically what AI will do to headcount.
AI-assisted self-represented legal filings have doubled since 2023 — MIT Technology Review
Chatbots have doubled the number of self-represented legal filings since 2023. Courts say the documents are cleaner but win rates are unchanged. That raises a real question about liability when AI legal advice goes wrong.
Tool Worth Knowing: Basedash Semantic Layer (basedash.com)
Basedash launched a semantic layer that lets teams define a business metric once and use it everywhere. If your revenue number means something different in your CRM than it does in your close report, this fixes that.
Deeper Read
How small businesses can leverage AI — MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review looks at how small business owners are using AI for invoicing, meeting summaries and content creation. The piece is specific about where it works and where a human still does better.
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes — The Daily Californian
A Berkeley data science course found that students using AI submitted cleaner work but bombed exams. Worth reading if you lead a team that's been using AI for routine work and haven't tested what happens when you take it away.
Anthropic President cites high computing costs as driver for IPO — Bloomberg
Anthropic's co-founder explains why building frontier AI costs more than any private lab can sustain alone. Worth reading if you're evaluating which AI tools will still exist in three years.