Tech news: New Deloitte practice incorporates open source AI models

Published September 4, 2026 12:54 PM

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Updated September 4, 2026 4:10 PM

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New Deloitte practice incorporates open source AI models; LogicGate 2026 release include GRC agents, lifecycle management solution; Deel launches retirement solution; and other accounting tech news.

New Deloitte practice incorporates open source AI models

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Big Four firm Deloitte announced the launch of its Open Model Engineering practice in Deloitte firms around the globe, with an initial focus on North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. It aims to help organizations design, engineer, deploy and operate AI solutions using open models and full-stack open-source engineering. Deloitte's Open Model Engineering practice will initially focus on developing enterprise AI applications built on Nvidia Nemotron open models and NIM microservices. Deloitte firms will also help clients build Sovereign AI stacks using open-source AI frameworks, fine-tune open models and enhance cyber defenses with open harnesses. As part of this practice, Deloitte firms will leverage the Zora AI digital workforce platform, with agentic harness capabilities built on Nvidia Nemotron open models and NIM. This gives clients a path to deploy, continuously optimize and govern AI agents using open models within their own environments. To support this new practice, Deloitte plans to hire, train and certify forward-deployed engineers globally certified in open models. These specialists will work directly alongside Deloitte firm clients to implement open model solutions and will serve as the operational foundation of the new practice.

LogicGate 2026 release includes GRC agents, lifecycle management solution

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Governance, risk and compliance platform LogicGate announced its summer 2026 release, which includes a bevy of new enhancements and features. This includes LogicGate's GRC Agents, which are now generally available to support critical use cases across third-party risk management, enterprise risk management, AI governance and business continuity management. This is on top of upgrades such as enhanced search that now extends beyond individual records to applications, reports and dashboards; expanded customization options for the color palette and the ability to send automated emails from the user's own domain; as well as integrations with SmartSheet, IronClad, Box and Microsoft Planner. The company also plans to eventually release Model Context Protocol server access that will let teams query Risk Cloud data through natural language prompts in the Large Language Model of their choice. It also released GRC Lifecycle Management, a governance, risk and compliance solution that helps customers sync their live production instance to their development environment, where they can safely test and build new workflows without disrupting processes that others rely on. LogicGate also has entered into a joint business relationship with PwC to deliver AI-powered GRC solutions to global enterprises.

Deel launches retirement solution

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Deel, an HR and payroll platform, announced Deel Retirement, bringing retirement plan enrollment, contributions and reconciliation directly inside the Deel platform. The first phase of the launch goes live in the U.S., in partnership with Human Interest and Basic Capital, with a U.K. rollout to follow in the coming months. Deel Retirement facilitates enrollment inside Deel, on the same record as payroll, rather than through a file-based connection between two separate systems. For employers, Retirement appears as part of the entity setup, alongside payroll configuration, and every deduction and transmission lands on one ledger. For employees, enrollment happens in the Deel platform, the same place they already access their payslip. Deel Retirement launches in the U.S. with two providers: Human Interest and Basic Capital.

Bizora expands into audit with Audit Research

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AI tax research platform Bizora has expanded into audit with Bizora Audit Research. Users ask a question the way they would ask a colleague. Bizora identifies which authorities govern the answer, pulls the relevant guidance, and returns an answer with the specific standard, section and paragraph cited.

Genpact announces general availability of Record-to-Report Suite

AI-focused finance operations company Genpact announced the general availability of the Genpact Record-to-Report Suite, which applies agentic AI to journal entry, reconciliation, and intercompany processes. Genpact's agents investigate exceptions, resolve the root causes, and carry that learning into the next close. The suite includes three independent modules on a shared agentic intelligence layer that can be deployed individually or together. The Genpact Record-to-Report Journal Entry includes ingestion, validation, anomaly detection and posting. The Genpact Record-to-Report Reconciliation resolves transaction matching and evidence validation; and the Genpact Record-to-Report Intercompany detects mismatches, classifies root causes, orchestrates resolution, automates accruals, and reconciles balances before close.

Campfire offers migration agent

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Accounting automation solutions provider Campfire introduced its Migration Agent, which moves a company's general ledger into the system and produces a reconciliation workbook. Campfire's Migration Agent handles the general ledger end to end. It connects to the source system directly where a connection exists and works from exported files everywhere else. It maintains a runbook for each source system it has seen. When it encounters a format it hasn't seen, it derives the mapping and proposes it for review. When the agent encounters something ambiguous, such as a duplicate account or a mapping conflict, it stops and asks rather than guessing. An accounting team supervises every migration. Every migration produces a reconciliation workbook. The old balance sheet sits beside the new one, account by account, month by month, with a variance column between them. Every figure in it is a live formula tracing back to the source export, so any number can be clicked and followed to its origin.

Impactful Advisor moves to Universal Accounting Center platform

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Advisory training platform Impactful Advisor announced a new affiliation with the Universal Accounting Center. As part of the partnership, the Impactful Advisor's training programs, including the Mentor Plus Level 5 Certified Advisor course and the Tool Time webinar series, are moving to UAC's learning platform at uacourses.com. The move gives current and future students an expanded learning experience. In addition to the more than 100 advisory tools that have always been part of Mentor Plus training, students will now have access to UAC's broader course library, covering topics well beyond advisory services. The two organizations will also begin offering joint presentations and webinars, combining the Impactful Advisor's advisory training with UAC's broader curriculum. Students already enrolled in Mentor Plus training can find details about the transition at uacourses.com/bundles/l5plus-bundle, or by contacting the Impactful Advisor directly.

Talent Formula launches AI-driven practice management platform

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Offshore accounting and AI platform Talent Formula launched TFX, a new AI platform built for accountants and designed around the way accounting firms work. TFX brings together models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with accounting-specific workflows, automation and digital employees in one secure platform. Touted as an AI workspace for accountants, practical use cases include drafting and reviewing internal documentation, assisting with analysis and research, supporting reporting and summarization, improving consistency across written outputs, and reducing time spent on repetitive cognitive tasks.

FinRCA-Bench tests AI for record retrieval and evidence completeness

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FinRCA-Bench, a deterministic, synthetic benchmark for evaluating AI-based financial reconciliation and root-cause-analysis systems, is available on Github. The benchmark is a repository of over 2,200 controlled financial reconciliation cases built from linked records across invoices, payments, allocations, GL entries and bank transactions. Since these cases are static, it knows exactly what happened in each case, so users can test not only whether an AI gives the right answer, but whether it can actually find the financial evidence needed to support that answer. Python 3.11 or newer is required.

Partnerships and integrations

Numbersgame, a Claude MCP provider that works with QuickBooks Online, has announced that it now also supports functionality with Xero. Xero support is now live alongside QBO. Numbers Game gives an accounting firm one controlled MCP for the client books it manages, rather than a separate connection with an all-or-nothing permission model for each client. … Enterprise data and AI security solutions provider Fortanix has joined Nvidia and industry leaders in the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry effort led by Nvidia to develop and share open technologies, techniques and tools for protecting the entire AI stack, from the models themselves to the agent frameworks built on top of them. The Open Secure AI Alliance advances that goal by pooling research and building shared, open infrastructure across a multi-vendor ecosystem. In other news, Fortanix also announced a partnership with CrowdStrike to help organizations secure AI across the entire lifecycle. By combining the Falcon platform with Fortanix Confidential AI, the integrated solution will deliver AI security, from threat detection and response, to protecting AI workloads, sensitive data and proprietary models while actively running in memory. … Timekeeping and insights platform Laurel announced the availability of Laurel in the Microsoft Marketplace. Alongside its Marketplace listing, Laurel has achieved Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment eligible status, allowing firms to purchase Laurel through Microsoft Marketplace and apply the cost toward their existing MACC, accelerating deployment and unifying invoicing within a single Azure agreement. … Financial data connection solutions provider Amalgam announced new integrations with PayPal via Rilet, allowing users to connect PayPal directly to Amalgam and download transaction data into Excel or Google Sheets for reporting, reconciliation and revenue analysis, as well as a Microsoft 365 integration. The company also announced a NetSuite Transaction Reclassifier that lets users review, edit and reclassify transactions in bulk. … Intuit announced a strategic partnership with frontier AI platform Perplexity, bringing the capabilities of QuickBooks and Mailchimp directly into Perplexity Computer. The partnership uses MCP connectors to enable secure access to QuickBooks and Mailchimp within Perplexity Computer workflows for execution of business tasks. Through the Intuit business platform and Perplexity Computer, new capabilities include managing cash flow by following up on overdue invoices, setting up recurring invoices and sending payment links; managing workforce needs by retrieving payslips and accessing payroll employee information; and improving marketing campaigns by tracking performance and identifying actions that drive revenue. … Spend management solutions provider Expensify announced a native integration with ERP provider Rillet. Businesses running Rillet can now connect to Expensify for an automatic, two-way sync: Rillet categories, dimensions and tax rates sync into Expensify, so every expense is coded at the point of spend. Out-of-pocket expenses post back to Rillet as vendor bills. Company card spend posts as credit card charges to the right accounts; and reimbursements and card transactions stay in sync. … Multi-entity workflow solutions provider GATHER.nexus debuted Complex Consolidations for QBO and Xero users. For finance teams using Xero and QuickBooks Online as their general ledger solution, GATHER.nexus's Complex Consolidations can automate group-level accounting for scenarios such as acquisitions and disposals, goodwill accounting, fair value adjustments, partial acquisitions and non-controlling interests, step acquisitions and disposals, and multi-level group hierarchies (such as chain holdings). Every group-level adjustment is supported by an audit trail, backing calculation and drill-down visibility. This release adds to current capacities that range from day-to-day intercompany operations and reconciliations to group consolidations for complex ownership structures and transactions.

Other news

Spend management platform Emburse will be launching in Australia on Sept. 15. … PieterPost, a physical mail conversion solutions provider, now lets anyone send USPS Certified Mail from a browser. A sender writes or uploads a letter, adds a U.S. address, previews the letter and pays online. For accounting firms, it is marketed as a way to send important correspondence with tracking and proof of delivery, without manual mail preparation. … Top 50 firm Schellman announced the appointment of Marshall Lux to its board of directors. Lux spent more than 20 years at McKinsey & Company, where he became a senior partner and led large parts of its private equity, financial services, technology and risk practices, before serving as global chief risk officer for all consumer products at JPMorgan Chase. He later joined Boston Consulting Group as a senior partner.