Law was one of the most obvious early verticals for LLMs:

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Law was one of the most obvious early verticals for LLMs: expensive labor, lots of text, document-heavy workflows, and customers paying $000s per seat. GPT-4 (2023) was an inflection point for legal AI, & Harvey and Legora have shown how big that category can become. That inflection point took longer for accounting, looks like it happened around o3 (2025). AI has advanced enough now that accounting should be a great vertical for agents. The work seems particularly well-suited to AI: they use…

aden_barton@aden_barton22h ago

New research: we hired 12 CPAs to complete four realistic accounting tasks, then had AI models from the past few years complete the same work. As of May 2025, accountants outperformed AI. Now they lose out to today's frontier models, which are near perfect on these tasks. 🧵 https://t.co/Skev4BeH2G