iscover Xero offers expertise for accounting firms’ AI transformations
TechnologyThe tech firm has launched Xforce, an initiative connecting forward-deployed engineers and partner consultants to assist accounting firms in putting AI and automation into practice.
Xero has announced its new offering of forward-deployed engineers and partner consultants for users to design workflows in their accounting firms for the AI era on Xero platforms.
The expertise offering will leverage XeroForce, Xero’s APIs, and Xero OS; the team will integrate with other Xero technology to “automate workflows end-to-end”.
With the tech company’s custom AI agent builder, XeroForce, being announced in May, the company said that this initiative will provide the expertise to allow firms to streamline manual tasks, add efficiency, develop workflows that can scale, and free up more time to support their clients.
Xforce is currently in beta, with one of its firm design partners, Australian accounting firm Liston Newton Advisory, involved in the initiative along with Nexia Christchurch and Shepherd Hensman in New Zealand and Azets and Sumer in the UK.
Xero president of product and technology, Diya Jolly, said that the idea for the initiative was hatched following XeroForce’s development.
“Building on positive feedback on XeroForce in beta, Xforce by Xero puts experienced experts in the field with firms, helping them embed trusted, repeatable and scalable AI workflows that deliver greater consistency and efficiency, and give them time back to reinvest in growing their practice,” Jolly said.
The tech company’s leader highlighted the current state of the profession.
“Accountants and bookkeepers are being asked to do more with fewer people, and fewer are entering the profession,” said Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, chief executive of Xero.
“AI can help, but to scale it, firms need hands-on support to build it into the way they work. Our partner consultants provided that support when thousands of firms moved from desktop to cloud, and now Xforce is designed to do the same for AI, with every firm deciding what gets automated on a trusted platform they control,” Cassidy said.
This follows the tech firm connecting live financial data to Google Gemini through a connected app released in October.
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