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AI marketing for accounting firms
Accounting marketing works best as useful reminders: deadline calendars, short updates when a rule changes, and guides for the kinds of businesses you serve. AI can draft these quickly. A CPA must check each one, since tax details differ by year, state and situation, and a wrong tip with your name on it costs trust.
Map your firm: see what could run on its own
Enter your website. The Brain reads it and shows every step of your accounting firm that could run on its own, and what we would build first. Free, about 20 seconds, no sign-up.
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The calendar is your best content
Owners forget deadlines. A simple email before each quarterly estimate, sales tax date and payroll filing earns attention all year, not just in spring.
Your clients do not read tax newsletters. They read a three-line email that tells them what to do and by when.
Guides for one kind of client
A guide for freelancers, another for landlords, another for dentists. Each answers the questions you already hear in the first meeting.
Record the answer you give to the most common question this month, and have AI turn it into a draft you then fix.
Accuracy beats volume
Rules change. Date every article, say who reviewed it, and update it. Never promise a specific tax saving.
If you are not sure a statement is current, take it out. The audience for a wrong tax tip is your own client list.
Picture this
Examples of what it can look like in a accounting firm. Illustrations, not clients.
A short note before the next estimated-payment date lists what freelancers should have ready.
A guide for rental property owners covers records to keep during the year, in plain words.
When a rule changes, a one-page update goes to clients it affects, and only those clients.
Map your firm in Westward’s Brain
Enter your website. The Brain reads it and shows every step of your accounting firm that could run on its own, and what we would build first. Free, about 20 seconds, no sign-up.
Not ready? See an example map
Questions
Can AI explain tax law?
It can summarize, but it can be wrong or out of date. A professional checks every claim.
How often should I email clients?
Often enough to be useful, not so often to be ignored. Tie messages to real dates.
Can I use client stories?
Not without clear written permission, and usually not at all. Use anonymous, general situations instead.
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