News
Latest AI and industry news, with EDNA's take
Microsoft Web IQ Gives AI Agents Real-Time Web Intelligence
Microsoft Web IQ Gives AI Agents Real-Time Web Intelligence
Microsoft's Web IQ APIs give enterprise AI agents structured, cited web evidence from the live web in 164ms, cutting hallucinations without bloating context.
Bland AI Raises $50M for High-Stakes Enterprise Calls
Bland AI Raises $50M for High-Stakes Enterprise Calls
Voice AI startup Bland raised $50M Series C to automate high-stakes calls in healthcare and finance. 3.5M calls/week. What it signals for the market.
Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026: The Actual Announcements
Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026: The Actual Announcements
Agent Bricks hits 100k+ deployed agents and 1+ quadrillion tokens per year. Catalog Federation goes enterprise. Here's what Day 1-2 delivered.
Blog
Insights on data, AI, and building modern businesses
Stop Losing Billable Hours to Admin Work
Accounting firms leak 30-40% of staff capacity to file management, email sorting, and document chasing. Here's how AI agents reclaim that time.
Best Way to Cut Data Entry Time in Bookkeeping Firms
Compare OCR, bank feeds, and AI categorization with time-savings benchmarks and ROI math for accounting firms billing hourly.
Best Way to Manage Agency Capacity Planning
Stop guessing who's free next week. AI agents forecast project hours, match skills to demand, and keep your team booked without burning out.
Guides
Step-by-step guides on data, AI, and our platform
Managing Multiple Client Portals Without the Login Chaos
Stop wasting 90 minutes a day on portal logins. AI aggregation gives accounting firms one dashboard for all client bank feeds and documents.
How to Automate Receipt and Invoice Data Entry
Stop keying receipts and invoices by hand. OCR and AI extraction tools save 40-60 hours per month and cut month-end close time in half.
Cut Client Follow-Up Email Time by 70% in Accounting
Stop chasing missing documents and status updates. AI-powered email automation and templating strategies for accounting and bookkeeping firms.
Insights
Thought leadership from Sam McKay on the future of business
How AI Closes Your Books While You Sleep
Month-end close eats 40% of your staff's time in four brutal weeks. Here's how accounting firms use AI agents to reclaim those hours.
SAP Confirms Human Review Is the Bridge to Production AI
SAP says human-in-the-loop approval is what moves enterprise AI agents from pilot to production. Here's how accounting firms should build checkpoints into close and reconciliation workflows.
Microsoft's AI Agent Can Run Your Next Client Project
Microsoft's pay-as-you-go AI agent now handles full projects. Agencies can test automation on monthly reports and standard builds without enterprise contracts.