The AI Lab for Accountants

Get real accounting work done with AI.

The workflows, prompts, and hands-on labs to move faster, with the compliance side handled honestly so you can use it on real client work.

⚖️ Built by licensed CPAs 📚 Primary-source verified
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What you can get done.

Copy-paste workflows for the work you already do, built from what 300+ accountants told us they actually use AI for. Each one is skimmable in five minutes and usable the same day.

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Client communication & email drafting

The most common use, ~39% of accountants.

Draft client emails, follow-ups, and plain-English explanations in seconds, in your voice.

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Tax research

~31% of accountants.

Structure the question, organize the analysis, and draft the memo, with every citation verified against primary source.

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Writing, memos & deliverables

~28% of accountants.

Turn rough notes into clean internal memos and client-ready deliverables.

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4

Workflow automation & building skills

~17% of accountants.

Automate the repetitive steps and package them into reusable skills you run again and again.

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Data cleanup & extraction

~15% of accountants.

Pull and tidy data out of messy statements, PDFs, and spreadsheets.

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Go hands-on

Labs you can run end to end.

Practice on realistic (synthetic) data and feel where AI helps and where your judgment is non-negotiable. The principle throughout: code computes, AI drafts, you decide.

Stuck on something

Bring your hardest AI question.

Tap Ask the Lab in the corner any time. Answers are grounded in the research below and cited, so you get a straight read instead of vibes, even when the rule itself is still unsettled.

Honest about the rules

Where the rules actually stand.

No one has the final word on AI in tax and accounting yet. So we did the research: here is what is settled, what is not, and exactly what we do in the meantime. The goal is not to be the authority, it is to be the place that is transparent about it.

What we know

The Regulatory Foundation

The cited bedrock: IRC §7216/§6713, the FTC Safeguards Rule and the WISP, the AICPA Code, SSTS, and Circular 230.

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The §7216 Decision Framework

When AI use needs written client consent, broken down component by component, with every cite verified against the regulation.

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7 compliance myths

The "but I heard…" claims about AI and §7216 that practitioners get wrong, each checked against the primary source.

See what people get wrong
What we still need guidance on
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The open questions

There is no AI-specific §7216 ruling yet, and the proposed Circular 230 change is not final. Here is exactly what is unsettled, and why the conservative read is the safe one until the bodies that govern us weigh in.

See what is still open
What we can do in the meantime

The five Guardrails

The plain-English rules that keep AI use defensible: anonymize or use an approved tool, verify before you rely, and you sign.

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The Redactor

Strip a client's identity from a note before any of it goes to AI, entirely in your browser.

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§7216 written-consent template

Ready-to-adapt consent language for when taxpayer information goes to a third party, including an AI service.

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What about security?

The honest, cited answer to the question every firm asks before touching AI, written first-person by a practicing CPA.

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What is your firm doing?

Soon: share the protocols you use and what you are hearing back from your state board, and see how other firms are handling the same gray areas. For now, bring it to Ask the Lab.

Want the deep version? The 12-lesson Regulatory Study Guide walks the full stack: §7216, FTC/WISP, AICPA, Circular 230, state law, and local models.

Do it safely

Your safety tools.

The community

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A weekly community of accountants building with AI, out in the open. Share what you are building, see what others are, and work the compliance side out together.

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