A message for every practice owner

Sell your practice before AI makes it worthless.

Bookkeeping is already automated. Tax is next. The buyers still paying a multiple of your recurring fees have not noticed yet. That is your window. It is closing.

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00:00:00THE CLOCK IS RUNNING
PRACTICE MULTIPLE ~1.0× RECURRING FEES
STATUS STILL BEING PAID
VALID UNTIL AI PARITY
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01 / 04  —  THE PIPELINE AI × ACCOUNTANCY
01 — WHAT YOU ARE

You run a pipeline.

Receipts in, returns out. Every step is a rule. Every rule can be written down. Everything that can be written down can now be done by a model that never sleeps and never bills by the hour.

02 — WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING

The junior's job is gone.

Bank feeds, receipt capture, auto-categorisation, draft accounts. Bookkeeping was the first to fall. Tax computations are being done by language models today, not in some vague future.

03 — WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR FEES

£900 becomes a conversation.

When the software files the return for the price of a coffee, every client meeting starts with the same question. You will not enjoy answering it.

04 — WHAT YOU DO ABOUT IT

Sell while “recurring” still means something.

Buyers are still paying a multiple of recurring fees. That word has a shelf life. The practices that sell before parity get the old price. The ones that wait get the new one.

The numbers

The numbers are not subtle.

Oxford researchers ranked 702 occupations by how exposed they were to automation. Accountancy sat at the very top of the list. That was 2013, a decade before anyone had typed a prompt.

0%
Accountants and auditors
Probability of computerisation
0%
Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks
Probability of computerisation
0%
Tax preparers
Probability of computerisation
SOURCE: FREY & OSBORNE, “THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT”, OXFORD MARTIN SCHOOL, 2013. THE ESTIMATES PRE-DATE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ENTIRELY. THE MODELS ARRIVED ANYWAY.
RECURRING FEES ARE THE NUMBER EVERY BUYER STARTS FROM. THE MULTIPLE THEY PAY ASSUMES THOSE FEES KEEP RECURRING. THAT ASSUMPTION IS NOW THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING YOU OWN.
Why sell now, not later

Six reasons the window is now.

None of these get better with time. Every one of them gets worse.

  1. 01

    Valuations are priced on yesterday's model.

    Practices still trade at roughly one times recurring fees. That multiple assumes the fees keep recurring. AI is the biggest threat to that assumption in the history of the profession, and the price has not adjusted yet.

  2. 02

    The consolidators are buying now.

    Private equity has discovered accountancy. Roll-ups are paying to bolt on client lists while the arithmetic still works. When the arithmetic stops working, so do the cheques.

  3. 03

    Compliance is your moat. Compliance is code.

    Real-time digital tax reporting, e-invoicing, open banking. Every mandate that makes your work more structured makes it easier to automate. The regulators are building the runway.

  4. 04

    Your clients will find out.

    Once an AI does the year-end for the price of a coffee, every renewal starts with “why am I paying you this?”. Fee compression does not arrive gradually. It arrives at renewal.

  5. 05

    Nobody is coming to buy in five years.

    Succession was already a crisis. Add a shrinking fee base and the buyer pool evaporates. The exit window is open today. It is not open indefinitely.

  6. 06

    You cannot out-work a model.

    It does not sleep, it does not bill by the hour, and it has read every page of legislation released this morning. Compete with it, or cash out ahead of it.

The curve

Where you are on the curve.

PRACTICE VALUE × TIME
NOW

The top of the multiple.

Today, buyers pay a full multiple for your recurring fees. Every year of fees is worth roughly a year of price. This is as good as the maths gets.

SOON

AI parity.

The model does the compliance work as well as you do. Fees compress first. The multiple compresses with them, because a multiple of a smaller number is a smaller number.

THEN

Sell at the top, not on the slope.

The buyers writing cheques today stop writing them. The window that felt permanent closes inside a single cycle. Nobody rings a bell at the top. This page is the bell.

How it works

Three steps. Weeks, not years.

No brochure, no six-month beauty parade. A realistic number, vetted buyers, a managed process from first call to handover.

STEP 01

Confidential valuation

Tell us about the practice: fee income, client mix, staff, location. We come back within 48 hours with a realistic range, not a flattering one.

48 hours · No fee · No obligation
STEP 02

Matched with vetted buyers

Consolidators, PE-backed groups and ambitious firms that are actively acquiring right now. Funded, motivated and pre-qualified. No tyre-kickers.

Funded buyers only
STEP 03

Complete in weeks

We run the process end to end: heads of terms, due diligence, handover. Your clients stay looked after and your reputation stays intact.

Managed end to end
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