The 3 phases of AI Maturity in accounting

Name: The 3 phases of AI maturity in accounting
Start: 2026-06-18

Jun

18

12

PM ET

9

AM PT

About

“But how are people actually using AI?” is the question on everyone’s mind.

Maybe you've been trying to figure out where AI fits in your day-to-day. Maybe you've already started experimenting—a custom GPT for journal entries, ChatGPT for variance commentary, a homegrown script or two. Either way, you're probably wondering where this actually leads, what comes next, and how to plan your team and skills for what's ahead.

This session will break down the 3 phases of AI Maturity for Accounting along with the pros and cons of each.

Armen Aklian, CPA and Controller at Kinter, sits at the intersection of accounting practice and the AI agents Kinter is building for finance teams. In this forward-looking session, he shares an honest, practitioner-first view of AI use in accounting.

You’ll leave with a clearer picture of how people are using AI and which phase of adoption is right for you.

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When

June 18th, 2026

At

12

PM ET

9

AM PT

What we'll cover

PHASE 1: HOMEGROWN AI

Teams building their own workflows with Claude Code, custom GPTs, and homegrown scripts. Fast to spin up, impressive to demo, until the person who built it leaves or the script posts something wrong with no audit trail. Where homegrown stalls: fragility, missing controls, and no trustworthy write-back to the G/L.

PHASE 2: AI COPILOT

Where most teams "using AI" actually sit today. FloQast, Numeric, Blackline, Brex, Ramp, plus ChatGPT for commentary. These tools surface anomalies and orchestrate the close, but humans still own every write-back. Where copilot helps, where it stalls, and how to tell when you've outgrown it.

PHASE 3: AUTONOMOUS AI EMPLOYEE

AI agents that own bank rec, accruals, and credit card rec end-to-end. Analysis and auditable write-back. You arrive at month-end and the books are already clean. What it takes to get there: trust in the system, real change management, and choosing an AI employee that actually writes back to your G/L.

Speaker

Armen Aklian, CPA

Controller, Kinter.ai

Accounting is a position of trust.

The future isn’t about replacing accountants.
It’s about giving them leverage—without asking them to compromise standards.

Kinter was built for the teams who carry that responsibility every day.

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