wilson

semper prorsus. computer guy @rivettax (prev founder @ lobby, acq)

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

Some news!

We’re joining forces with @RivetTax.

Over the last two years running Lobby, we launched four products at the cutting edge of AI, all focused on helping teams customize and fine-tune these models to make them go from good to great

What excited me about joining Rivet was the idea of putting our code into the hands of hundreds of clients and tax preparers on Day 1 – tax season is right around the corner, we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on

PS. My mom is actually a CPA in Georgia – peaches don’t fall far from the tree, after all

[Nick Abouzeid, EA @nickabouzeid]

It’s Day 329 at Rivet, but today is just the beginning

Proud to announce – we've acquired @LobbySo to power the future of AI-empowered tax prep, with Lobby's founder @WiLSONSACCOUNT joining Rivet as our founding engineer to drive our AI efforts internally

Tax prep is both art and science. The art is in interpreting IRS guidance and guiding clients through their own interpretations of their financial realities.

The science is a set of tasks that need to be completed to furnish a completed tax return to a client, most of which involve finding some specific string of numbers or letters, a needle in a haystack of emails, PDFs, Zoom transcripts, and Slack conversations.

The art of tax preparation cannot and should not be automated. But the tedium of trawling 1000s of pages of PDFs for a specific cost basis for a secondary sale, or thumbing through a transcript for the name of a subsidiary entity mentioned once, that absolutely should be. The meat of tax preparation isn’t just converting a single W-2 or K-1 into a data packet that Drake or CCH can interpret, but knowing where to find needles in client-provided haystacks.

Wilson and the rest of the Lobby team spent the last three years focused on reliably pulling specific answers from reams of unstructured data. And just in the last month of working together, we know we’ve made the right call having Wilson join the team.

Personally, I’m just excited for next tax season when we can put all of his & the rest of the team’s hard work all to good use! 🥂

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

a significant portion of gen z will be trying to recreate the feeling of 2016

everyone i know in my age cohort feels this epochsaudade for a culture that can never exist again

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

“Men don’t wear shorts,” said the man who has never before experienced an 85° day.

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

this aged poorly

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

you know who isn’t down right now? @RivetTax

you know why? because we use @Railway

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

come work w me!!

[Rivet @RivetTax]

We're hiring a Platform Engineer at Rivet.

We've only been building for 860 days, and already are working with 1000+ of the fastest-growing companines in the world, but there's so much more to build.

Custom mods on top of tax softwares, PDF-to-CSV pipelines, and helping our internal agents push up against the limits of what they're capable of on TaxBench – the problems are specific, the constraints are real and come directly from our tax practice, and the solutions ship in days, not quarters. Unglamorous in the best way.

The bar's high because the companies we work with move fast, and we have to move faster.

If that's the kind of work you want to be doing, the role is open. Apply on our site.

[Nick Abouzeid, EA @nickabouzeid]

It's the little things, sometimes

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@2irl4u @alexisohanian amie

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@JohnnyNel_ @betterhelp that's fucking profound bro thank you

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

it’s a shame i don’t work for @betterhelp GTM because i’d be getting so many leads right now at the embarcadero clawdbot lobster rave

[Nick Abouzeid, EA @nickabouzeid]

https://t.co/Hba72pLcD3

[Nicholas Raphael @nick_araph]

Most evals measure what an AI system can do not what it can do reliably.

At Rivet, we focus on metrics that better capture reliability, because real progress at the frontier of AI is about consistency, trust, and repeatable performance.

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

A client was literally pricing moving trucks to leave NY because three chatbots confidently told him NY doesn't conform to federal QSBS.

It does.

He had screenshots. They were just wrong.

This is why we built TaxBench.

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@nickabouzeid @RivetTax If you're building agents and not measuring pass^k you're shipping a demo, not a product. idk how else to say it.

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

A client was literally pricing moving trucks to leave NY because three chatbots confidently told him NY doesn't conform to federal QSBS.

It does.

He had screenshots. They were just wrong.

This is why we built TaxBench.

[Nick Abouzeid, EA @nickabouzeid]

Introducing TaxBench: a reliability-first benchmark for tax AI from @RivetTax.

We are an AI-enabled accounting firm. We file returns for Cursor, Cognition & 100s more.

Everyone here seems certain LLMs can do our job. We built TaxBench to actually measure it.

Not yet. 👇 https://t.co/Fwml4aoiu9

[Nick Abouzeid, EA @nickabouzeid]

Introducing TaxBench: a reliability-first benchmark for tax AI from @RivetTax.

We are an AI-enabled accounting firm. We file returns for Cursor, Cognition & 100s more.

Everyone here seems certain LLMs can do our job. We built TaxBench to actually measure it.

Not yet. 👇 https://t.co/Fwml4aoiu9

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

the only chinese peptide I am interested in

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@dakeenekid i tried talking about ai in sf, ended up tarred and feathered

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

this is what the internet was supposed to be

[Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal]

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors.

Out now, enjoy :)

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@ngeloxyz can you explain like i’m illiterate

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@202accepted quite the modus ponens. now i’m sitting here trying to figure out if i’m the modus tollens or if i just don’t talk to enough people

[wilson @wilsonsaccount]

@_ssaammo_o Time to consult 30 Rock S7E3