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MindBridge A global leader in financial risk discovery and anomaly detection.

AI is increasingly involved in preparing, analyzing, and reviewing financial information, raising harder questions for f...
10/23/2026

AI is increasingly involved in preparing, analyzing, and reviewing financial information, raising harder questions for finance and audit: What can be trusted? What needs to be challenged? And who remains accountable for the outcome?

As AI becomes more embedded in financial and audit workflows, those questions extend beyond the technology itself. They affect the evidence professionals rely on, where human judgment remains essential, and how organizations think about governance, responsibility, and assurance.

On November 17, Christina Ho, Chief Assurance Officer at Oath CPAs and former PCAOB Board Member, and Wenzel Ryan Reyes, CPA, CA, Head of AI Governance at MindBridge, will explore how AI is reshaping audit and what it means for the future of the profession.

The conversation will cover the distinction between auditing with AI, auditing AI, and providing assurance over AI-generated outputs, along with how standards, professional skills, and expectations around accountability may need to evolve.

⏰ November 17 | 1:00–2:00 PM ET
🎓 1 CPE Credit available

Register through the link in bio.

10/21/2026

Our customers are Priority Zero. 💙

That means listening, learning, and giving them a direct voice in what comes next.

This August, we brought our Audit & Assurance Customer Advisory Board together in Ottawa to challenge ideas, discuss priorities, and help shape our roadmap.

Here’s another look at the people and moments that made it happen.

To our CAB members: thank you for your candor, collaboration, and trust.

The NYCPA Leadership Listening Tour kicks off this week in Long Island.Over the next two months, accounting professional...
10/20/2026

The NYCPA Leadership Listening Tour kicks off this week in Long Island.

Over the next two months, accounting professionals and NYCPA leadership will come together across five stops to connect, exchange ideas, and discuss what’s shaping the profession.

MindBridge is proud to sponsor the tour. As audit firms navigate increasingly complex client environments, staying connected to peers and professional leadership matters.

📍 First stop: Long Island (Melville)
📅 October 22 | 6:00–7:30 PM ET

See all five tour stops and event details at the link in bio.

10/17/2026

AI is changing more than how accounting work gets done. It is changing how accountants learn.

For decades, junior professionals developed judgment through repetition, review, mistakes, and feedback from more experienced colleagues. As AI takes on more of that foundational work, firms face a bigger talent question:

If the work changes, where will the experience come from?

In this Vision 2026 conversation, Calvin Harris, CEO of NYCPA, argues that the skills that make accountants valuable still matter. What needs to change is how firms develop them.

The opportunity is not to preserve repetitive work for its own sake. It is to rethink professional development so accountants still build technical judgment, skepticism, communication skills, and the experience required to lead.

Our latest article explores what that means for firms as AI adoption and talent strategy become increasingly connected.

Read: AI Is Changing How Accountants Learn. Firms Need to Adapt. Link in bio.

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10/16/2026

**As finance becomes more automated, where does financial risk detection fit?**

AI agents and automated workflows are taking on more financial tasks, from processing invoices to preparing journal entries.

But the systems executing financial transactions aren’t necessarily the same systems evaluating risk across the business.

That’s the idea behind the **Autonomous Finance Stack**: four distinct responsibilities that work together to support financial integrity.

📊 **1. Systems of record** capture financial transactions and maintain financial data.

⚙️ **2. Autonomous ex*****on** processes transactions and performs financial tasks through automation and AI agents.

🔍 **3. Autonomous Financial Oversight** independently analyzes financial activity across systems to detect anomalies, explain potential risks, and support investigation.

👥 **4. CFO and board accountability** ensures people remain responsible for financial decisions and outcomes.

**Why separate these responsibilities?**

Because a transaction can follow every programmed rule and still be part of an unusual pattern. Independent oversight helps finance teams identify risks that individual workflows may not reveal.

MindBridge provides that oversight layer, helping organizations detect financial risks across connected systems of record without replacing existing controls or human judgment.

📖 Explore the full article, *The Autonomous Finance Stack: Four Layers of Financial Accountability*, through the link in our bio.

10/15/2026

**Just because a financial transaction passes every check doesn’t mean there’s no risk.**

An invoice may meet approval requirements. A journal entry may be balanced. A payment may follow every programmed rule.

But when thousands of transactions are examined together, unusual patterns can emerge.

Duplicate payments. Unexpected journal adjustments. Unusual vendor activity. Potential financial leakage.

As AI agents and automated workflows process more financial activity, these risks can develop faster than finance teams can identify them through manual reviews.

This is the **Governance Gap**: the growing difference between how much financial work an organization can automate and how much it can independently verify.

Closing that gap requires more than adding approval rules or reviewing more transactions manually.

Finance teams need independent oversight that can analyze financial activity across systems, detect anomalies, explain findings, and help people investigate potential risks.

That’s where Autonomous Financial Oversight (AFO) comes in.

MindBridge helps finance teams identify unusual financial activity across connected systems of record, so they can focus their attention on transactions and patterns that warrant investigation.

**The goal isn’t to slow down automation. It’s to make sure financial risk doesn’t go unnoticed as automation expands.**

📖 Read our full blog, *The Governance Gap: Where Financial Risk Grows as AI Ex*****on Accelerates*, through the link in our bio.

What is Autonomous Financial Oversight, and why does finance need it?Finance teams are automating more work, from invoic...
10/13/2026

What is Autonomous Financial Oversight, and why does finance need it?

Finance teams are automating more work, from invoice processing and payments to reconciliations and journal entries.

But automation doesn’t eliminate financial risk. Duplicate payments, unusual transactions, accounting errors, and potential fraud can still go undetected, especially when financial activity is spread across multiple systems.

Autonomous Financial Oversight (AFO) addresses this by independently analyzing financial activity across systems of record to identify risks, explain findings, and support action.

It’s built on five pillars:

1. Full-Population Monitoring: Analyze 100% of financial transactions rather than relying on samples.

2. Continuous Risk Detection: Identify unusual activity and potential financial risks earlier.

3. Explainable Outputs: Show why transactions are flagged so finance teams can investigate and make informed decisions.

4. Governed Intervention: Give the right people the information needed to investigate, act, and verify that issues have been addressed.

5. Independence from Ex*****on: Evaluate financial activity separately from the systems processing it, providing a broader view of risk.

Together, these capabilities help finance teams detect issues that individual workflows and controls may miss, without replacing those controls or removing human accountability.

That’s the role of Autonomous Financial Oversight, and why it matters as financial operations become more automated.

📖 For a deeper explanation of the five pillars, read our AFO blog through the link in our bio.

09/24/2026

Vision 2026 wrapped up at home in Ottawa, where the MindBridge story began. ❤️

Last night, we brought together the MindBridge community and members of Ottawa’s business and technology community to celebrate Vision 2026 and the people who have helped shape MindBridge over the past 11 years.

Mayor Mark Sutcliffe joined us and called MindBridge “a great Ottawa story,” reflecting on the impact a growing technology company can have on the people, partnerships, and community around it.

That connection runs deep. MindBridge grew with early support from Invest Ottawa and the vision of founder Eli Fathi C.M. From the beginning, Ottawa’s finance, technology, and AI community has helped shape our story.

A special thank-you to The Globe and Mail and Ottawa Business Journal for joining us and continuing to follow the MindBridge story, and to Oh My Doughnuts! and Misto Fine Foods for keeping everyone very well fed. 🍩🙌

And thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with us. What a way to close out Vision 2026.

As financial operations become faster and more automated, the challenge isn’t just keeping pace. It’s maintaining govern...
08/25/2026

As financial operations become faster and more automated, the challenge isn’t just keeping pace. It’s maintaining governance, accountability, and trust as the way financial work gets done changes.

And as those environments change, audit firms have to evolve how they deliver assurance over them.

That’s what we’re bringing to the stage at MindBridge Vision Conference 2026.

On September 22, finance leaders, audit professionals, customers, and industry experts are coming together for a full day focused on what’s next: from governing AI and strengthening financial oversight to modernizing audit and assurance.

Expect candid conversations, real customer experiences, new perspectives from industry leaders, and a first look at what’s ahead for MindBridge.

📅 September 22
💻 Virtual + free to attend
🎓 CPE credits available

Save your spot — link in bio.

🏆 Big congratulations to our CTO, Rachel Kirkham, on being shortlisted for Technology Leader of the Year at the Women in...
07/14/2026

🏆 Big congratulations to our CTO, Rachel Kirkham, on being shortlisted for Technology Leader of the Year at the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2026!

Rachel leads our Engineering, Data Science, and Platform teams, helping shape the technology behind MindBridge’s continued innovation while advancing AI organizations can trust in critical financial environments.

She’s also a passionate advocate for responsible AI and greater representation in technology, championing diversity in STEM and helping shape conversations around AI assurance.

We’re incredibly proud to see Rachel recognized for her leadership. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement!

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