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Written by someone who's watched accounting offices work up close for 20 years.

Most AI coverage is written for people who build AI. Count On AI is written for people who use it — specifically, the accounting profession deciding what tools to adopt, what to ignore, and what to put off until next year.

Quinn Ashford spent two decades in IT inside accounting firms — public CPA shops, advisory practices, and bookkeeping operations. Not as a CPA — as the person watching practitioners work. That's the perspective every issue brings.

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