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Outlook 2026: AI, Not Layoffs, Powers PE Valuations

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How CPAs are using AI to boost EBITDA multiples.

Ilya and Victor Radzinski, TaxDome co-founders

By CPA Trendlines

Private equity investors are paying higher prices for CPA firms that deploy artificial intelligence to expand capacity, deepen professional benches, and systematize growth—rather than cut headcount.

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“If AI were about to replace accountants and advisors, private equity wouldn’t be pouring billions into the sector,” TaxDome founders Ilya and Victor Radzinsky say in a public letter to stakeholders.

As dealmaking accelerates into 2026, the shift helps explain why valuation multiples for accounting firms continue to rise even as automation spreads through tax, audit, and advisory workflows. Private equity sponsors and strategic consolidators have completed hundreds of acquisitions of CPA firms since 2020, often at valuation multiples that would have been rare a decade ago.

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Clients Demand Niche Know-How, and They’re Willing to Pay for It

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Expertise is the new table stakes.
Brands matter: Clients rely on business or personal referrals to find their accountants.

By Rick Telberg
CPA Trendlines Research

U.S. business clients are willing to pay up to 25 percent more for specialized accounting services — and many are making niche expertise a non-negotiable.

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A TaxDome-commissioned survey of 353 small- and mid-sized business executives and owners across industries finds that as companies grow, they leave generalists behind in favor of firms that understand their vertical, speak their language and solve the high-stakes problems that come with scale.

Once they go niche, they rarely return.

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Haase, Radzinsky: Inside the TaxDome-Juno AI Alliance

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TaxDome and Juno Founders launch integrated end-to-end tax workflow.

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By CPA Trendlines Research

In the increasingly crowded and fast-evolving world of practice management software, two upstarts tell CPA Trendlines’ Rick Telberg they’ve found a way to change the game.

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“Clients demand a unified experience — they don’t want multiple portals and logins,” says Ilya Radzinsky, TaxDome’s co-founder, in an interview for CPA Trendlines. “At the same time, firms need complete tax workflows that actually work end to end. This launch delivers both: one seamless client experience paired with AI-powered tax preparation that removes manual data entry and increases firm productivity.”

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Alexion.ai Emerges from Stealth with Big-Name Leadership

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And a Big Vision for Accounting AI.

Lisa Griffith, Alexion.ai CEO and co-founder
AI Advisors: Clockwise from top right, Boomer, Smith, Casas

By CPA Trendlines Research

Alexion.ai is making its market debut with an ambitious goal: to decentralize, fortify and humanize artificial intelligence in tax and accounting firms by preserving the institutional knowledge firms lose when key people leave.

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The company is positioning itself as connective tissue for accounting practices, normalizing unstructured data, reconciling fragmented context and building AI-powered memory infrastructure. The platform, the company says, enables firm-specific agents to operate with trust, traceability and nuance.

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How TaxDome and Juno Just Changed the Tax Tech Game

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TaxDome unveils AI-driven workflow to Challenge Aiwyn, Canopy, Karbon.

Workflow warriors: Juno’s Haase, left, and TaxDome’s Radzinsky

 

By CPA Trendlines Research

TaxDome and Juno are launching the accounting industry’s first fully integrated, end-to-end tax workflow solution, an automation-powered platform uniting proposal to payment under a single login.

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The rollout lands at a pivotal moment in a fiercely competitive practice management software market, where venture capital, artificial intelligence and consolidation are redrawing the digital map for tax and accounting firms.

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