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Professional Services AI: Who Pays, Who Checks, Who Signs

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Outside the accountability research anchoring this week's feature, UK finance leaders pushed AI optimism to 73% while rotating budget from cost cutting toward growth, the IRS mapped AI use onto the Circular 230 duties practitioners already carry, and two firms staked out opposite positions on who captures the savings.

Professional Services AI: Who Pays, Who Checks, Who Signs

Beyond the accountability research driving this week's feature article, the wider professional services cycle produced three separate stories: finance chiefs approving budget on a steepening curve, a regulator that has already answered the human-review question for one profession in writing, and two opposite bets on who ends up capturing the savings. Related: Professional Services AI Now Has to Show Its Work Finance Chiefs Stopped Playing Defense Deloitte's Q2 UK CFO Survey, reported by Consultancy.uk, found 73% of respondents optimistic that AI will materially enhance business performance, up from 59% at the end of 2025 and 39% in 2024. That curve is steep, and it reads differently alongside what else moved in the same quarter. Corporate priorities rotated between Q1 and Q2. Cost reduction fell from 68% to 53%, while new products, services and market expansion rose from 25% to 37%. Acquisition-led growth and cash flow both edged up behind them. Finance leadership is moving off balance-sheet defense and onto growth spending, which is a different buying posture than the one most artificial intelligence consulting engagements were sold into two years ago. Investment intent is close...

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