The CPA industry is about to lose the people it can least afford to lose.
Not the partners. The 3rd and 4th year seniors who were supposed to become partners.
AI ate their training ground. Nobody's talking about that yet.
Selling AI into a conservative industry is different. Folks aren't afraid of the tech. They're afraid of being the firm that bet on the wrong thing in front of their clients. That's not a product problem. That's a trust problem: you don't solve trust problems with better demos.
The industries AI is going to hit hardest aren't the ones talking about it the most. They're the ones that built their entire margin structure on the assumption that human hours are the only way to deliver the work.