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Most practices have a good idea of what their people cost. It is much harder to know how much valuable professional time is being absorbed by small pieces of friction scattered throughout the working day. Multiply them across hundreds of clients and an entire year and the picture can look very different. AI can help identify where the same interruptions recur, where hand-offs repeatedly fail and where supposedly exceptional intervention has quietly become part of the normal workflow. The important question is not simply where does our time go? It is, is that where we want our professional time to go?

Volume 1 Edition 7 | by DATAFORT Founder Marcie D. Terman | 21 September 2026 The clock is ticking, and the next Making Tax Digital (MTD) quarterly...

EACH SYSTEM NEEDS ITS OWN SECURITY STRATEGY
There is no reason every use of AI within an accountancy practice should have exactly the same security architecture. For many business processes, the combination of a leading frontier model and an appropriately configured commercial/API arrangement may provide the capability and controls required. Other applications may justify a much more isolated environment. Organisations with particularly sensitive information can use models that can be deployed within infrastructure they control, whether on their own hardware or inside a tightly controlled private-cloud environment.