A few months ago, someone who isn't an accountant built the world's first AI accountancy firm.
Eleven AI "colleagues". Each with a name, a job title, and a workstream. And a managing partner called Grace Ledger.
I sat down with Alexis Kingsbury ... the man behind it, and author of the number one Amazon bestseller Accrual Intentions ... to find out what actually happened.
It's not a story about AI replacing accountants. It's far more useful than that.
In the conversation we get into:
- What "agentic AI" really means, and why it changed everything in 2026
- How his AI team built 108 files in 8 minutes ... and where that went badly wrong
- The moment the AI confidently pushed him to take paying clients with no AML registration
- Why you should never let AI do your calculations, and what to do instead
- Why confident, beautifully presented AI errors are harder to spot than a junior's
- What this all means for junior roles and the future of the profession
My honest take ... this was one of the most eye-opening chats I've had all year. Alexis is refreshingly straight about where AI is brilliant and where it's genuinely dangerous.
Have a watch, then tell me in the comments ... would you ever let AI loose on your own year-end accounts? 👇