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IRS Draws a Hard AI Line
The I R S Office of Professional Responsibility just told tax pros to treat AI output as draft work that must be verified before it reaches a client or filing. That shifts AI from a productivity experiment into a compliance process.
Use a one-page scorecard to decide whether to buy, build, or ignore each AI use case in your firm. Score time saved, data sensitivity, accuracy risk, and whether your current stack already covers it.
The real shift is not that AI can do more work. It is that owners now have to decide what work deserves automation, what needs review, and what should disappear entirely.
The trap is testing too many AI tools at once without rules for client data or ownership. Pick one workflow, one owner, and one metric before you expand.
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Hi, I'm Damian — I built DayLift.
I'm not a CPA — I'm the person who reads the AI firehose so you don't have to. Every morning I pull the one development that actually touches a tax or advisory practice, cut the hype, and turn it into a five-minute briefing.
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