For the person at the firm who has been told to look into AI
Become the most valuable person at your firm.
AI in Accounting 101 · $25
There is a job open at almost every firm in America and nobody has been given it: the person who can tell whether the AI is working. Not the person who uses it — that role filled itself. The person who can look at what came out and say that number is wrong, and here is how I know. This is twenty-one pages and a working kit that makes you that person.
What’s inside
- What you are actually learningA model answers, an agent acts — and why “did it do the task” and “did it do it correctly” are two different questions with two different answers.
- Why control comes before capabilityThe arithmetic that explains why these systems return tidy, confident, plausible wrongness, and the one question to ask any vendor quoting an accuracy number.
- How to practise without touching client dataBuild a sandbox in about a minute, run one task twenty times, and find out what these systems actually do on your kind of work.
- How to tell good from badGrading in four buckets, only one of which can hurt you, and how to end up with a real accuracy number that is yours rather than a vendor’s.
- The six layers, and which one to ask aboutSix questions, what a real answer sounds like, and what a dodge sounds like.
- The write-upThe one page you hand a partner, and the sentence at the bottom that gets it acted on.
It ships with three things you fill in. A prompt that generates a safe practice set in about a minute, the grading sheet, and the one-page write-up template. That is what makes it a kit rather than a read.
What this is not. It will not teach you to build anything. There is no code in it, nothing connects to your ledger, and no client data goes anywhere near it. If you want to build, that is the four-live-week cohort or the files — both are linked at the end of the guide.
$25 one payment
The PDF downloads the moment you pay. And there is no refund — it is a PDF and you will have it in about thirty seconds. If it is not what you expected, tell me and I will fix the page.
Get the 101 — $25Not sure yet? The AI Readiness Diagnostic is free and takes about six minutes.
Written by Owen Byram, who ran the close in private equity finance before building agents that draft to client ledgers in production.