The Growth Minded Accountant · 2026-07-22 · 34 min
Time Saved Is Only the Starting Point Artificial intelligence can draft an email in seconds, summarize a meeting, organize client information and reduce the time required to complete routine work. But does that mean the firm’s AI investment is succeeding? Not necessarily. The AI conversation in tax and accounting is increasingly divided between two competing visions. Silicon Valley sees the opportunity to rebuild firms around AI-native systems and autonomous agents. Professionals working inside real firms see clients, deadlines, compliance obligations, established workflows and decades of processes that cannot simply be removed overnight. The future will likely exist somewhere between those two extremes. In this episode of The Growth Minded Accountant , Lee Reams explains why AI success should not be measured by software demonstrations, licenses purchased or minutes theoretically saved. The more important question is whether professionals trust the technology enough to use it and whether that adoption makes the firm more capable.
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