What's Next For Accounting? - Issue #73

On the heels of last week's ChatGPT API release, we saw a glut of new ChatGPT experiences. If you missed it last week, here's why that's significant.

• Slack launched its own ChatGPT app

• You can look it in the eyes

• Get it in your MS automations

• In your Make automation

• In your mindmaps

• Your internal team documentation

• Even your bible

Initial implementations will simply be the vanilla ChatGPT model in a new place. But the more meaningful implementations will layer it with new skills. Bing has done this, combining web search results with ChatGPT. Copy.ai has layered in skills like scraping a website, or summarizing a YouTube video. The takeaway is vanilla ChatGPT is the new baseline, the version with no features, made more useful by integrations & custom skills.

• 78% of accountants agree: accountants leveraging AI will replace accountants not leveraging AI. If you're building a product, show us how you're planning to leverage AI

• I'm seeing more AI applications targeting attorneys than accountants for now - An AI legal assistant for advice & document drafting, and another for building contracts

• Digits with another AI-for-normies explainer of how they use GPT in their uncategorized transaction app

• I made a video about the accounting credential debate

• I was recently interviewed on the Tech4Accountants podcast

• Rebecca Driscoll has been sharing her experience of niching down her firm: thread 1 - thread 2

• Rulebricks is an interesting app to define the business logic of your company, and wire it up to your systems to automation decisions accordingly

• A searchable library of ChatGPT prompts

• An Airtable-like UI for your SQL databases

• “The first tax software built for web3” 🙄

• Graphy generates simple interactive charts

• Zapier now allows for API request action steps

• Upgrade your existing logo with AI

• AI watermark removal just created a lot of headaches

• Attio raises a $24M Series A, it's the CRM the cool kids are using now

• Were you to buy yourself an exoskeleton, how many horsepowers would you be looking for? If you answered one horsepowers, there's now a solution

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Mailing Stuff

You don't use a physical fax machine anymore, you use an online fax service. So why are we still printing & physically sending mail?

Let's take a look at online mailing service, Lob. There are a number of online mailing services, this one is cheap and easy to automate. It's free for up to 500 mailings per month, and postcard & letter mailings cost less than $1 each.

You get a host of customization options, from format, to the address window, to whether it should go out certified. Even build it into a Zap!

😵‍💫 But how do I trust it??

I get it, that's most people's first reaction. The reality is it's probably more reliable than the person you're handing the mail to at post office, or the plastic bin the mail carrier hauls out of the big blue mail box and tosses into the back of the mail truck. Companies like Gusto use these services to send millions of pieces of mail a year, payroll tax filings, that sort of thing.

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