The tedious 70% of accounting is very automatable now. Transaction categorization, reconciliation, invoice processing. AI is great at rules. - Expense and receipt processing: snap, categorize, done. - Reconciliation tools that flag anomalies: finding the one wrong transaction in ten thousand is exactly what machines are for. - Client reporting: raw numbers into readable summaries clients actually understand. A short monthly paragraph beats a perfect ledger nobody opens. - Keep the human on anything with liability: tax positions, audit responses. AI drafts, you decide. - Map your AI tool stack to who does what so bookkeeping, payroll, and reporting AI stop overlapping. I compare AI tools for accountants and 40+ professions, and PrivateLLM deploy sets up a private LLM on AWS for $50 plus usage for firms that want client data on their own servers.