AI and Your Industry: Accountants × Engineers
An accountant opens a client's file and just knows something's off — before a single number flags it. She can't say exactly how. That instinct is the most valuable thing in the firm, and the hardest to hand to software.
Across town, an engineer ships a tool to "automate accounting" — and it misses everything that matters, because nobody told it what she actually looks for.
Two halves of the same problem. For Session #4, Practical Playbooks Club puts them in the same room — accountants who know the work, and the people who build AI — to work through four honest questions:
The four honest questions
Where is the industry heading with AI?
What can AI actually do for it?
What can AI not do for it?
What should we become — the human role from here?
Who this is for
Accountants / finance — curious or worried about where AI is taking their work
Engineers / builders — who want real industry problems, not toy demos
Anyone close to a real workflow, comparing notes across the domain ↔ tech line
What you'll walk away with
A hype-free read on what AI can (and can't) do in accounting
Notes compared with peers on what's actually working
AI engineers answering your real questions, live
A one-page "where accounting is heading with AI" map to take home
Format
Short opening frame (10 min)
Small-group discussion — mixed tables of accountants + engineers, so everyone speaks
Whole-room discussion on the strongest threads, with core takeaways at the end
Bring 2 examples (2 minutes, no prep)
One task you wish AI would just do for you — and how you handle it today.
One moment you just knew something was off before you could explain why — the gut-call AI can't replicate.
Room rules
no pitches, no sales — pure discussion
challenge the idea, not the person — clashing views welcome
come to contribute, not just to watch
When and where
📅 Thursday, August 20, 2026
⏰ RSVP by Sunday, August 17
🕕 6:00 – 7:30 PM
🍕 $5 at the door (pizza included)
📍 Perth CBD
Exact venue details will only be shared with approved guests.
Practical Playbooks Club — a Perth community for engineers, builders, and practitioners who share what actually works.