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Diligent Put the Board Book on an iPad. Now It Wants the Whole Risk Business
The board portal pioneer survived an accounting-control stumble, a $624 million take-private and a decade of acquisitions. Its next trick is turning every risk signal into something a director can use before the meeting starts.
The Company Quietly Rewiring the Business of Accounting
CPA.com does not merely sell accountants software. It helps decide which tools, methods and business models become part of the profession's next operating system.
Punchcard
Punchcard (formerly Agentive) is a Provo, Utah startup building an AI-powered operating system for financial audits and assurance work. Its platform uses assertion-driven AI agents that read documents, run testing procedures from natural language instructions, and draft cited workpapers - collapsing audit planning, client document requests, evidence testing, and documentation into one workspace so CPA firms can move through substantive testing far faster.
Ease.io
Ease.io is an Irvine, California software company that makes EASE, a cloud-based audit and inspection platform for manufacturers. The platform digitizes and automates plant-floor workflows - layered process audits, safety inspections, 5S evaluations, Gemba walks and custom audits - along with scheduling, task assignment, data collection, corrective actions and reporting. What began as an on-premises work-instructions tool has become a native SaaS platform used by leading manufacturers such as Dana, Tenneco, Eaton, 3M, Bosch and Aston Martin across 50+ countries, helping quality and operations teams turn plant-floor data into real-time insight and closed-loop issue resolution.