What's Next For Accounting? - Issue #98
Jason Staats
August 31, 2023
💡 Generate Marketing Video Clips
I recently did a roundup of the best ChatGPT plugin for accountants, and wanted to share an amazing new plugin for video editing app Capcut.
In ChatGPT, simply select the Capcut plugin and prompt it to create a video:
It takes you over to Capcut (free), and will export a 720p version. Here’s the raw output:
It gives you a video (just the gif shown above) with a voice over narration and background music. It didn’t get the jist of the robot apocalypse, but you’ve now got a project in Capcut you can modify to your liking.
This is a helpful starting point, but you could also layer in your own voice narration, replace images, etc.
For example, you can shoot a video of yourself with Loom, add it to the above, and cut back & forth between your Loom recording & the imagery Capcut generates to create a slightly less boring explainer 🎉
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📅 This Week
I launched a little in-person podcast with my bud Chad Davis called Accountant Support
If you liked last week’s newsletter with my 6 six most important strategic decisions for firms, there’s a video for it now - use it to persuade your boss/partner/team to bend to your will
OpenAI announced an Enterprise version of ChatGPT:
No prompts trained into the model, SOC 2
SSO & shareable chat templates across your org
Unlimited GPT-4 with 4x context limits (25k-ish words) at 2x the speed
FinancialCents is running a virtual conference this fall and I’ll be there talking AI
40k lawyers have signed up for this AI copilot
This podcast was an exploration of how I knew absolutely nothing 5 years ago and now people think I’m an expert
Lean Finance is an accounting firm disguised as a cool startup product
Airtable went live with some new AI functionality
Gusto showed off some really cool upcoming AI functionality, auto-reviewing employment agreements for local compliance
My thoughts on the 2023 NATP Tax Fee study
Content Snare will now let you generate client questions with a single AI prompt
Botkeeper is throwing an AI event in Boston
😍From The Community
My private peer networking community Realize for firm leaders, now capped at 500 members. We’ll be permanently raising the price for new members in a couple weeks.
09/01 🏫 Hall Pass - Live Coaching with Brandon Hall
09/05 💘 Swiping Right - Disengagements - Graceful Endings with Kellie Parks
09/07 💻 Demo Day - QuickFee with Jason Staats
09/22 💻 Demo Day - Instead with Jason Staats
09/25 🕸️ Into The Chadiverse with Chad Davis
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