{"podcast":{"title":"Growing Your Firm | Strategies for Accountants, CPA's, Bookkeepers , and Tax Professionals","slug":"growing-your-firm-strategies-for-accountants-cpa-s-bookkeepers-and-tax-professionals-504625","podcast_index_feed_id":504625,"rss_url":"https://jetpackworkflow.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://jetpackworkflow.com/growing-your-firm-podcast/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/c/d/8/ecd8e36858941b3427a2322813b393ee/jpw-podcast-logo.png","author":"David Cristello","episode_count":387,"summary":"Growing Your Firm is the top podcast for ambitious firm owners to find tips, tactics, and strategies on how to grow their firm (or practice). In this podcast we'll be interviewing unique thought leaders in accounting, tax, and bookkeeping about topics including: practice management, marketing, social media, succession planning, partner relations, hiring, pricing, and much more.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-your-firm-strategies-for-accountants-cpa-s-bookkeepers-and-tax-professionals-504625"},"episode":{"title":"How to Build a 90% Automated Accounting Firm","slug":"how-to-build-a-90-automated-accounting-firm","published_at":"2026-04-25T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-your-firm-strategies-for-accountants-cpa-s-bookkeepers-and-tax-professionals-504625/how-to-build-a-90-automated-accounting-firm","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-your-firm-strategies-for-accountants-cpa-s-bookkeepers-and-tax-professionals-504625","url":"https://jetpackworkflow.libsyn.com/how-to-build-a-90-automated-accounting-firm","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/jetpackworkflow/Jeff_Seibert.mp3?dest-id=219588","summary":"Is the traditional general ledger dead? As small businesses and startups demand real-time data, the standard \"wait two weeks for a black-and-white P&L\" model is becoming obsolete. In this episode of Growing Your Firm, host David Cristello sits down with Jeff Seibert , co-founder and CEO of Digits and former Head of Consumer Product at Twitter (now X). Jeff reveals why he spent over five years and $100M in venture capital to rebuild accounting software from the ground up to be AI-native. Whether you're a firm owner looking to scale or a tech-forward CPA, this conversation explores how \"Agentic Accounting\" is moving the profession from manual data entry to high-level advisory. In this episode, we discuss: The Genesis of Digits: How Jeff's experience scaling Twitter exposed the massive data gap between engineering and finance. What is an Agentic General Ledger? Moving beyond \"bolt-on\" AI to a vector-graph data model where the intelligence is baked into the ledger itself. Automating the Month-End Close: Why Jeff predicts 90% of bookkeeping, reconciliation, and schedules will be automated by the end of 2026. Classification Accuracy: Why LLMs (like ChatGPT) fail at bookkeeping and how Digits achieved 97% accuracy using custom predictive models. The Future of Firm Competition: Why the gap between AI-adopting firms and traditional firms will create a \"margin opportunity\" that reshapes the industry. Jeff's Top AI Tools for Founders: Insights into Whispr Flow (for voice dictation) and Granola (for frictionless meeting notes).","meta_description":"Is the traditional general ledger dead? As small businesses and startups demand real-time data, the standard \"wait two weeks for a black-and-white P&L…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1915,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growing-your-firm-strategies-for-accountants-cpa-s-bookkeepers-and-tax-professionals-504625/episodes/how-to-build-a-90-automated-accounting-firm/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-your-firm-strategies-for-accountants-cpa-s-bookkeepers-and-tax-professionals-504625/how-to-build-a-90-automated-accounting-firm.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}