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Brian Lang
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Aug 24, 2026
Bottom Up or Top Down AI Adoption in Accounting Firms?
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4:19Rob BrownHOST
Question two is asking, what are firms getting wrong about AI? You can talk about your own firm or others, but nobody's charting a perfect course, are they?

Brian LangGUEST
No, I think, I think one of the biggest mistakes I see, and it's, it's one we've had to work on ourselves, is leadership deciding what AI tools the firm needs to be rolling out and trying to do it from a top-down standpoint.

Brian LangGUEST
We've had staff-led AI committees, mostly younger team members, bringing us what's actually useful.
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6:08Rob BrownHOST
Question three asks, what leadership decisions on AI are gonna matter most over the next couple of years?
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Brian LangGUEST
And if you take it in a little bit, listen, you can probably start to think how you can,

Brian LangGUEST
I would say the biggest opportunity too is one, designations allow for opportunity, right? And I think that's one of the things that we look at.
