Tech News: New Deloitte practice incorporates open source AI models

Published September 4, 2026 12:54 PM

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New Deloitte practice incorporates open source AI models; LogicGate 2026 release include GRC agents, lifecycle management solution; Deel launches retirement solution; and other accounting tech news.

New Deloitte practice incorporates open source AI models

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Big Four firm Deloitte announced the launch of its Open Model Engineering practice in Deloitte firms around the globe, with an initial focus in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. It aims to help organizations design, engineer, deploy and operate AI solutions using open models and full stack open-source engineering. Deloitte's Open Model Engineering practice will initially focus on developing enterprise AI applications built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NIM microservices. Deloitte firms will also help clients build Sovereign AI stacks using open-source AI frameworks, fine tune open models, and enhance cyber defenses with open harnesses. As part of this practice, Deloitte firms will leverage the Zora AI™ digital workforce platform, with agentic harness capabilities built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NIM. This gives clients a path to deploy, continuously optimize and govern AI agents using open models within their own environments. To support this new practice, Deloitte plans to hire, train, and certify forward deployed engineers globally certified in open models. These specialists will work directly alongside Deloitte firm clients to implement open model solutions and will serve as the operational foundation of the new practice.

LogicGate 2026 release include GRC agents, lifecycle management solution

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Governance, risk and compliance platform LogicGate announced its summer 2026 release which includes a bevy of new enhancements and features. This includes LogicGate's GRC Agents, which are now generally available to support critical use cases across third-party risk management, enterprise risk management, AI governance and business continuity management. This is on top of upgrades such as enhanced search that now extends beyond individual records to applications, reports and dashboards; expanded customization options for things like color palette as well as the ability to send automated emails from the user's own domain; as well as integrations with SmartSheet, IronClad, Box, and Microsoft Planner. The company also plans to eventually release MCP server access that will let teams query Risk Cloud data through natural language prompts in the LLM of their choice. It also released GRC Lifecycle Management, a solution that helps customers sync their live production instance to their development environment, where they can safely test and build new workflows without disrupting processes that others rely on. LogicGate also announced it has entered a Joint Business Relationship with PwC to deliver AI-powered GRC solutions to global enterprises.

Deel launches retirement solution

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Deel, an HR and payroll platform, announced the launch of Deel Retirement, bringing retirement plan enrollment, contributions, and reconciliation directly inside the Deel platform. The first phase of the launch goes live in the US, in partnership with Human Interest and Basic Capital, with a UK rollout to follow in the coming months. Deel Retirement facilitates enrollment inside Deel, on the same record as payroll, rather than through a file-based connection between two separate systems. For employers, set-up takes under five minutes, with no broker required. Retirement appears as part of entity setup, alongside payroll configuration, and every deduction and transmission lands on one ledger, removing the reconciliation step that used to generate support tickets. For employees, enrollment happens in the Deel platform, the same place they already access their payslip. Because retirement lives alongside pay, adjusting a contribution rate when a bonus or commission lands is as easy as checking a payslip, rather than something that gets reviewed annually. Employees choose how to invest, set a contribution rate, add beneficiaries, and update their savings at any time, without a separate login. The provider remains fully visible and reachable via single sign-on. Deel Retirement launches in the US with two providers, Human Interest and Basic Capital, giving customers a choice of competitive plans right inside the platform. Deel provides the platform through which retirement plans, provided and administered by either provider, are offered. Human Interest has been a longstanding Deel partner and now brings that relationship directly into Deel Retirement, while Basic Capital's open architecture offers thousands of additional options, including individual stocks, ETFs, and commodities, for employees who want a more tailored portfolio. Choosing between the two comes down to which structure best fits a company's workforce.

Bizora expands into audit with Audit Research

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AI tax research platform Bizora has now expanded into audit with the launch of Bizora Audit Research. Users ask a question the way they would ask a colleague. Bizora identifies which authorities govern the answer, pulls the relevant guidance, and returns an answer with the specific standard, section, and paragraph cited. There is no mode to switch and no separate product to open. If someone asks about section 174 amortization, their router sends it to tax research. If someone asks about documentation requirements under AS 1215, it goes to Audit Research. The same is true through their API and MCP server, so if someone has already built Bizora into their own workflow, audit questions work without any change on their end. The AI will reference US GAAP and SEC standards, updates, regulations, bulletins, and guidance; PCAOB standards, staff guidance, rulemaking, and inspection reports; AICPA Statements on Auditing Standards; the Code of Professional Conduct; open PEEC project activity; COSO for internal control frameworks; global internal audit standards from the IIA; GASB Codification; The GAO Yellow Book, Green Book, and Red Book; FASAB for federal financial reporting; the Treasury Financial Manual, the USSGL, and the FAST Book; OMB Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR 200 and the Compliance Supplement, including archived supplements through the Federal Audit Clearinghouse for prior year single audits; FAR, DFARS, and Cost Accounting Standards at 48 CFR Chapter 99; The DCAA Contract Audit Manual, audit guidance memoranda, the Selected Area of Cost Guidebook, and the directory of audit programs; The DoD Financial Management Regulation; DOL and EBSA guidance for employee benefit plan audits, including ERISA reporting requirements at 29 CFR 2520, field assistance bulletins, and advisory opinions; NAIC statutory accounting for insurance. FFIEC for bank regulatory reporting; IFRS standards; IAASB International Standards on Auditing; The IESBA Code of Ethics; ISSB sustainability standards; IPSASB public sector standards; EFRAG and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards; as well as relevant portions of the US Code, including the Sarbanes Oxley provisions on internal control over financial reporting, Title 31 on money and finance, and Title 29 on labor. Audit Research is included with Pinnacle subscriptions on the web app. Through the API and MCP server, Audit Research queries are billed at $0.65 per query. Routing is automatic, so an existing integration does not need code changes to start handling audit questions. One query means one charge, regardless of how many authorities Bizora had to consult to answer it.

Genpact announces general availability of Record-to-Report Suite

AI-focused finance operations company Genpact announced the general availability of the Genpact Record-to-Report Suite, which applies agentic AI to journal entry, reconciliation, and intercompany processes, enabling finance teams to move from reactive close activities toward more predictive, insight-driven operations. Genpact's agents investigate exceptions in the last mile, resolve the root causes, and carry that learning into the next close. The suite includes three independent modules on a shared agentic intelligence layer that can be deployed individually or together, based on a client's operating model, process maturity, and transformation priorities. The Genpact Record-to-Report Journal Entry orchestrates ingestion, validation, anomaly detection, and posting; the Genpact Record-to-Report Reconciliation resolves transaction matching and evidence validation; and the Genpact Record-to-Report Intercompany detects mismatches, classifies root causes, orchestrates resolution, automates accruals, and reconciles balances before close.

Campfire touts migration agent

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Accounting automation solutions provider Campfire announced the launch of its new Migration Agent, which moves a company's general ledger into Campfire in minutes rather than months, and produces a reconciliation workbook that proves every account tied out. Campfire's Migration Agent handles the general ledger end to end. It connects to the source system directly where a connection exists and works from exported files everywhere else, which means unusual, legacy, and home-built systems are a normal case rather than an exception. It maintains a runbook for each source system it has seen, and when it encounters a format it hasn't, it derives the mapping and proposes it for review. It is not autonomous, by design. Every write requires human approval. When the agent encounters something ambiguous, a duplicate account, a mapping conflict, it stops and asks rather than guessing. An accounting team supervises every migration, because the judgment calls in a migration are accounting decisions, not data decisions. Every migration produces a reconciliation workbook. Your old balance sheet sits beside your new one, account by account, month by month, with a variance column between them. Every figure in it is a live formula tracing back to your own source export, so any number can be clicked and followed to its origin. The balances are verified two independent ways, once programmatically and once through the workbook's formulas, and the two methods are then reconciled against each other. The workbook goes to the customer. A controller can hand it to an auditor

Impactful Advisor moving to Universal Accounting Center platform

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Advisory training platform Impactful Advisor announced a new affiliation with the Universal Accounting Center (UAC). As part of the partnership, The Impactful Advisor's training programs, including the Mentor Plus Level 5 Certified Advisor course and the Tool Time webinar series, are moving to UAC's learning platform at uacourses.com. The move gives current and future students a significantly expanded learning experience. In addition to the more than 100 advisory tools that have always been part of Mentor Plus training, students will now have access to UAC's broader course library, covering topics well beyond advisory services. New bundled offerings will make it easy for students to combine Mentor Plus's advisory training with UAC's other certifications, coaching, and courses, all through a single platform. Current subscribers will not lose any progress or access as part of the transition. Existing enrollment dates and completed coursework will be honored at no additional cost, and students will be guided through a personally supported transition to their new accounts. The two organizations will also begin offering joint presentations and webinars, combining The Impactful Advisor's advisory training with UAC's broader curriculum, as part of a shared mission to elevate the accounting and bookkeeping profession. Students already enrolled in Mentor Plus training can find details about the transition at uacourses.com/bundles/l5plus-bundle, or by contacting The Impactful Advisor directly.

Talent Formula launches AI-driven practice management platform

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Offshore accounting and AI platform Talent Formula launched TFX, a new AI platform built specifically for accountants and designed around the way accounting firms work. TFX brings together leading models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with accounting-specific workflows, automation and Digital Employees in one secure platform. Touted as an AI workspace for accountants, practical use cases include drafting and reviewing internal documentation, assisting with analysis and research, supporting reporting and summarization, improving consistency across written outputs, and reducing time spent on repetitive cognitive tasks.

FinRCA-Bench tests AI for record retrieval and evidence completeness

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FinRCA-Bench, a deterministic, synthetic benchmark for evaluating AI-based financial reconciliation and root-cause-analysis systems, is available on Github. The benchmark is a repository of over 2,200 controlled financial reconciliation cases built from linked records across invoices, payments, allocations, GL entries, and bank transactions. Since these cases are static, it is known exactly what happened in each case, and so users can test not only whether an AI gives the right answer, but whether it can actually find the financial evidence needed to support that answer. While most benchmarks test whether a conclusion is correct, this one focuses on whether the AI shows the invoice, payment, GL, and bank records that prove it. Python 3.11 or newer is required to run this.

Partnerships and integrations

Numbersgame, a Claude MCP provider that works with QBO, has announced that it now also supports functionality with Xero. Xero support is now live alongside QuickBooks Online. Numbers Game gives an accounting firm one controlled MCP for the client books it manages, rather than a separate connection with an all-or-nothing permission model for each client. … Enterprise data and AI security solutions provider Fortanix announced it has joined NVIDIA and industry leaders in the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry effort led by NVIDIA to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools for protecting the entire AI stack, from the models themselves to the agent frameworks built on top of them. The Open Secure AI Alliance advances that goal by pooling research and building shared, open infrastructure across a multi-vendor ecosystem. In other news, Fortanix also announced a partnership with CrowdStrike to help organizations secure AI across the entire lifecycle. By combining the Falcon® platform with Fortanix Confidential AI, the integrated solution will deliver end-to-end AI security, from threat detection and response, to protecting AI workloads, sensitive data, and proprietary models while actively running in memory. … Timekeeping and insights platform Laurel announced the availability of Laurel in the Microsoft Marketplace. Alongside its Marketplace listing, Laurel has achieved Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) eligible status, allowing firms to purchase Laurel through Microsoft Marketplace and apply the cost toward their existing MACC—accelerating deployment and unifying invoicing within a single Azure agreement. … Financial data connection solutions provider Amalgam announced new integrations with PayPal via Rilet allowing users to connect PayPal directly to Amalgam and download transaction data into Excel or Google Sheets for reporting, reconciliation, and revenue analysis, as well as a Microsoft 365 integration. The company also announced a NetSuite Transaction Reclassifier which lets users review, edit, and reclassify transactions in bulk. … Intuit announced a strategic partnership with frontier AI platform Perplexity, bringing the capabilities of QuickBooks and Mailchimp directly into Perplexity Computer. The partnership uses MCP connectors to enable secure access to QuickBooks and Mailchimp within Perplexity Computer workflows for seamless execution of business tasks. Through the power of the Intuit business platform and Perplexity Computer, new capabilities include managing cash flow by following up on overdue invoices, setting up recurring invoices, and sending payment links; managing workforce needs by retrieving payslips and accessing payroll employee information; and improving marketing campaigns by tracking performance and identifying high-impact actions that drive revenue. … Spend management solutions provider Expensify announced a native integration with ERP provider Rillet. Businesses running Rillet can now connect to Expensify in minutes for an automatic, two-way sync: Rillet categories, dimensions, and tax rates sync into Expensify, so every expense is coded correctly at the point of spend; Out-of-pocket expenses post back to Rillet as vendor bills; Company card spend posts as credit card charges to the right accounts; Reimbursements and card transactions stay in sync automatically. … Multi-entity workflow solutions provider GATHER.nexus announced the launch of Complex Consolidations for QBO and Xero users. For finance teams using Xero and QuickBooks Online as their general ledger solution, GATHER.nexus's Complex Consolidations can automate group-level accounting for scenarios such as acquisitions and disposals, goodwill accounting, fair value adjustments, partial acquisitions and non-controlling interests (NCI), step acquisitions and disposals, and multi-level group hierarchies (chain holdings). Every group-level adjustment is supported by a comprehensive audit trail, transparent backing calculations and full drill-down visibility. This release adds on to current capacities that range from day-to-day intercompany operations and reconciliations through to group consolidations for complex ownership structures and transactions.

Other news

Spend management platform Emburse will be launching in Australia on September 15. … PieterPost, a physical mail conversion solutions provider, now lets anyone send USPS Certified Mail from a browser. A sender writes or uploads a letter, adds a U.S. address, previews the letter, and pays online. We print it in the United States, hand it to USPS, and return the tracking and recipient signature. A one-page letter costs $16.50, including printing, the envelope, postage, Certified Mail, tracking, and the electronic return receipt. No account or printer is needed. For accounting firms, it is touted as a simple way to send important correspondence with tracking and proof of delivery, without manual mail preparation. … Top 50 firm Schellman announced the appointment of Marshall Lux to its board of directors. Lux spent more than 20 years at McKinsey & Company, where he became a Senior Partner and led large parts of its Private Equity, Financial Services, Technology, and Risk practices, before serving as Global Chief Risk Officer for all consumer products at JPMorgan Chase. He later joined Boston Consulting Group as a Senior Partner.