around this time last year i was telling my coworkers (mostly CPAs) that AI could probably do most of our job in the near future and they looked at me like i was nuts
so glad i pivoted. best decision of my life
It's OVER for accountants? Look at these numbers.
Mercor put 12 licensed CPAs, averaging 5.5 years of experience, up against frontier AI on four accounting tasks. The humans averaged 37%. Claude Opus 5 scored 100% across all 20 attempts, finishing each in under 10 minutes. Most human attempts took 30โ180 minutes.
Just 18 months ago, the best AI couldn't beat the average accountant on these tasks. Now it beats even the best participant. Mercor wanted to measure how much AI could help accountants. But AI alone scored perfectly, leaving no room for improvement.