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The AI Ledger Weekly: Dext Opens Practice Data to Claude and ChatGPT
Dext now lets practices query client data from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. Read-only, Advanced plan only: what to check first, plus BILL, Tipalti and more.
The AI Ledger Weekly: A quiet week, and Accrual's Arc asks firms to check the agents
A quiet week: Accrual launches Arc with 20 agents and a review step, and Financial Cents adds three file agents. We checked dates against primary sources.
The AI Ledger Weekly: An AI Agent Can Now Write to Your Xero Ledger, and It Is Free
Meridian's free connector lets AI agents write to Xero. Plus Avalara Aviator, Ramp AR, the AICPA's new tax AI council and the PCAOB on limits.
The AI Ledger Weekly: FloQast Hires the Person Who Wrote the AI Governance Rules
FloQast hires COSO's board chair and makes agent governance the product, Workiva ships Agent Studio, and Emburse enters accounts payable.
The AI Ledger Weekly: Paystand Publishes the Numbers Its Agents Must Hit
Paystand publishes the targets its AI agents are measured against, FinQuery opens a UK arm, and an open benchmark exposes the reconciliation evidence gap.
The AI Ledger Weekly: Xero's agentic roadmap arrives, mostly as a promise
Xerocon Denver promises agentic workflows that mostly are not shipping yet, the AICPA adopts SAS 151 on fraud, and vendor terms may licence client data.
The AI Ledger Weekly: Intuit's August release changes who can touch your clients' books
Intuit's August release changes who can undo a reconciliation, Luca IQ ships an IRS-approved tax engine, and EU AI Act transparency rules take effect.
The AI Ledger Weekly: KPMG and OpenAI bet your software goes headless
KPMG goes Elite with OpenAI's headless bet, Expensify's card lands in the UK, Paylocity ships six payroll agents, and QuickBooks US prices jump on 1 August.
The AI Ledger Weekly: Xero fires the starting gun on agentic bookkeeping
Xerocon moves reconciliation and capture inside the ledger, Puzzle's close agents go GA, Juno lands in Firm360, and 73% of UK leaders demand explainable AI.