Basis's Matt Harpe: Why AI Won't Replace Accountants — It'll Make Them Richer
A crisis is happening in accounting that goes far beyond creative bookkeeping or lost receipts: we don't have enough people.
Enough work exists for 30 million accountants to prepare tax returns and audits, restructure data and improve how companies organize. The U.S. has just 3 million, says Basis co-founder and CEO Matt Harpe. "The number is rapidly declining," he says.
Founded in 2023 by Harpe and co-founder Mitchell Troyanovsky, Basis builds AI agents to help. Operating behind the scenes, Basis agents learn a firm's best practices and then automate much of the process, allowing its…
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