Featured in The Georgia Society of CPAs · Current Accountants · May/June 2026 · pages 34 and 35
I have a piece in this issue's GSCPA Current Accountants , a personal narrative about how I ended up here.
I spent the first six years of my career at a traditional accounting firm doing things the way they've always been done: tax returns, workpapers, review notes and everything in between. It was solid work, and I learned the fundamentals that still guide everything I do today. But somewhere along the way, I started feeling a gap between what the profession could be and what I was experiencing day, to, day. So I left.
What followed was a circuitous path: government, then a SaaS company building tax tools, then a billion, dollar fintech where I led a team of AI agents delivering personalized planning at scale. Along the way I watched AI capability shift in ways that surprised me, and I came back to public accounting to build a firm intentionally designed around it.
The piece walks through three moments I keep coming back to:
February 2025 , the realization. A new model release made the AI workflow I'd been struggling with for months simply work overnight. "I wasn't watching a novelty. I was watching a fundamental shift in what could be accomplished."
August 2025 , the shift. A recruiter from a San Francisco AI, tax startup gave me a front, row seat to how engineers and accountants were learning each other's languages , and how coding agents could turn tasks that once took hours into ones that took minutes, "not because the thinking disappeared, but because the mechanics did."
January 2026 , the launch. Barmore CPA, with AI embedded into the foundation of how the firm operates. Built deliberately around the bodies of work where these tools genuinely help, with the duties and responsibilities of the credential still squarely at the center.
The piece closes with a question I think every CPA in our profession should be sitting with:
The question isn't whether AI will change public accounting. It's whether we'll be the ones shaping how it happens. I intend to be intentional about that. I hope more of us will be.
→ Read the full piece in GSCPA Current Accountants, May/June 2026 (PDF)