EP511: Spotlight - Tommy Vincent - How AI Is Changing Analytics For Bookkeepers

Michael Palmer: But it scans everything and it takes a couple of seconds so the bookkeeper can come in, scan, double-check that the bookkeeping was done right. And once it checks out, they can go to their customer and say, hey, your data's good to go. Customer comes into Hub Analytics and starts chatting with the chatbot to ask questions about the data, get visualized charts and graphs, and really have kind of this virtual CFO experience, which is cool. You're listening to the Spotlight Edition of The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Louie Prosperi. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm Louie Prosperi. Our returning guest is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Hub Analytics, Tommy Vincent. Welcome to the show. Thanks, Louie. It's always good to be back and to see your face as always, and excited to talk with your audience. Well, this is great because I love this topic that we're going to cover tonight, or today, and it's really interesting. I think it's called AI. And Hub Analytics and how those two are being merged. And I know that you guys are really working on— you've always been in the AI part. I know that Hub Analytics started there before anybody else was, but I know that recently you've added some more programs and some more releases to take it to the next level. So let's first talk about AI in general, how AI is important to Hub Analytics and why it's integrated into your system.

Spotlight: Yeah, absolutely. Well, you know, I like starting with AI honestly, because for two, you know, it's funny with AI, I think a lot of people almost feel a little burned out. It's like, oh my God, are we talking about AI again? But the reality is that it is real. It's not like Bitcoin, you know, and nothing against Bitcoin. Like I think that it's going to have its time too. Don't worry. It already has, I suppose. And if you're an investor, But you know, we're not ordering our pizza with Bitcoin yet, like on an everyday basis. Right. But AI is real. It's very, I mean, it's the application of AI. I use it every day. You know, of course it's ChatGPT, this or that, but it's also being baked into software as a service, you know, SaaS applications out