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The Accounting Disruptors Podcast

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Candid conversations with the tech founders and accounting firm leaders reshaping the profession through AI, automation, and bold strategy. Hosted by Paul Peterson, CEO of Wiss. We go beyond accounting software to explore how AI is transforming firm operations, how accountants work, and how businesses access financial insights — with real guests building the future right now. Topics: AI in accounting | CPA technology | Accounting automation | ERP disruption | CFO leadership | Accounting firm strategy | Future of work New episodes monthly. Learn more at wiss.com

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The Accounting Disruptors: Episode 6 | The Data Bottleneck — AI Tax Automation w/ Abacus 12.05.2026 1:04:57

Cody Sugarman, co-founder of Abacus, joins Wiss CEO Paul Peterson and Tech Practice Partner Matt Barbieri to discuss how artificial intelligence is tackling the most overlooked bottleneck in tax practice — data ingestion. In this conversation, Cody shares how two brothers with zero accounting background built a product that's now selling into nearly 10 of the top 100 firms, and why the mid-market...

The Accounting Disruptors: Stop Calling It Back Office: Why AI Is Moving Accounting to the Front 24.03.2026 1:04:57

The Accounting Disruptors Podcast: Episode 5 | The Grind Is Gone: An Inside Look at AI-Powered Accounting with Basis 20.03.2026 34:51

What does it actually take to bring AI into a live accounting practice? In Episode 5, Wiss CEO Paul Peterson and Tech Practice Partner Matt Barbieri sit down with Transformation Lead Nick Buccelli to talk about the reality of AI adoption; what broke, what worked, and what changed everything. From early days working directly with the Basis founders to 18 months of live deployment, this is an unfilt...

The Accounting Disruptors Podcast: Episode 4 | Transforming Revenue Operations with AI 16.01.2026 48:28

Your invoices go out late. Collections drag on for weeks. And 70% of your finance team is stuck doing billing instead of strategic work. Sound familiar? Here's the kicker: Most finance leaders think the problem is collections. It's not. The real issue happens way before that, and it's finally fixable. In this episode of the Accounting Disruptors Podcast, Paul Peterson sits down with Ali Hussain, F...

The Accounting Disruptors Podcast: Episode 3 | From 15-Day Close to 3-Day Close 11.12.2025 31:02

Legacy ERPs have held finance teams hostage for decades. Clunky systems. Manual processes. 15-day closes that should take 3. Finance teams kept throwing more bodies at the problem because what else could they do? That era is over. In this episode of The Accounting Disruptors, Paul Peterson (CEO of Wiss) sits down with Stephen Hedlund (Head of Finance at Rillet) to discuss how AI-native ERPs are fi...

The Accounting Disruptors Podcast: Episode 2 | Building the Firm of the Future 13.11.2025 52:28

📺 WATCH THE FULL SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu3WbduSvu9Rcw9yCikvO-z3k8JQKp0Kn 🔔 Subscribe for more conversations with accounting innovators: @wisscompanyllp In Part 2 of this conversation, Basis AI co-founder Matt Harpe gets tactical about how accounting firms can successfully navigate the AI transformation. Wiss CEO Paul Peterson and Matt discuss the practical roadmap for ad...

The Accounting Disruptors Podcast: Episode 1 | The AI Revolution in Accounting 05.11.2025 14:49

Matt Harpe, co-founder of Basis AI, joins Wiss CEO Paul Peterson to discuss how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the accounting profession. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Matt reveals the dual mission driving Basis: eliminating manual workflows that cause accountant burnout while enabling the depth of financial insights businesses have never had access to before. In...