Short, free reads on how professional-services firms are using AI in practice. The same editorial standard as our reports, none of the price tag. Each note points to the deeper report if you want the full picture.
The marketing oversells it. Here is the narrow, useful version: what AI takes off an accountant's desk, and what it still gets wrong.
The Nichetel research desk · 6 min read · Updated 2026-06-20
The category grew faster than the quality. What the tools do well, where the risk hides, and how to buy without getting burned.
6 min read · Updated 2026-06-16
Wide gap between the headlines and the daily reality. What is genuinely in use in firms, and what got switched off.
6 min read · Updated 2026-06-11
Can you prove, after the fact, that your AI behaved the way you said? The parts regulated firms have to get right.
5 min read · Updated 2026-06-05
Some of the back office automates cleanly; some hides judgement that breaks. Where the ROI is real.
5 min read · Updated 2026-05-29
NIST, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act. Which one fits the firm you actually run, without over-engineering it.
6 min read · Updated 2026-05-23
Most teams automate the wrong end first. A simple order of operations, from the safe wins to the parts that cost you placements.
5 min read · Updated 2026-05-15
Useful for the person, not a substitute for the firm. When an AI governance certificate earns its fee and when it is just a badge.
5 min read · Updated 2026-05-09
Plain-language version: the rules, checks, and records that put someone accountable for what your AI decides.
6 min read · Updated 2026-05-04
Easy win until a bot mishandles a frustrated customer in your brand's voice. Where to point it, and where not to.
5 min read · Updated 2026-04-25
A short, unglamorous list of questions that separates the tools you can defend to a regulator from the ones you can't.
6 min read · Updated 2026-04-18
The honest answer is: for some tasks, yes, and the firms that benefit most are the ones clear about which tasks those are.
5 min read · Updated 2026-04-10
Not the conference-keynote version. What partners at four-to-eight-attorney firms have running on a Tuesday, and what they quietly turned off.
6 min read · Updated 2026-04-03
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