Monday I started my journey as Head of Engineering at Tellen, the world’s first Agentic AI platform built specifically for audit.

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As I think about where this is all headed, I keep coming back to the same feeling:The future of work is more uncertain than it’s ever been.None of us really know if, in 20 years, we’ll be operating business as usual.. or all-hands-on-deck building paperclips.

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But one thing feels increasingly inevitable: agents, and the workflows they enable, will be a fundamental part of how work gets done.

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I’ve been thinking about AI and audit for a long time.

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My career started at Workiva, where I helped build their operational audit solution and later led development of their public API for external audit partners. That led to a string of startups, a master’s degree in AI/ML from UIUC, and eventually, back into the audit space at AuditBoard.

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There, I had the chance to help lead engineering on both the SOX audit and API/integration platforms. I also became, as anyone on my team will tell you, a relentless AI shill. I joined just as ChatGPT hit the mainstream, and to me, the implications for audit were immediately clear.

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The future of audit is automated.The future of audit is human review of AI (now we call them agentic) workflows.

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That’s what pulled me to Tellen.

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I’m not totally sure what software looks like when so much of the busywork can be handled by agents. None of us are, really. Do firms still need rigid point solutions that force them to reshape their process around someone else’s model and UI? Or can we meet users where they are, automate the complexity, and elevate them into reviewer mode?

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What stood out to me about Tellen wasn’t just the technology, but the clarity of the vision. This isn’t about replacing auditors or upending firms. It’s about giving teams more leverage. It’s about removing the grind, automating the tedious, and letting professionals focus on the parts of the job that actually require judgment.

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When I saw what the team had built, it felt like something I’d been circling around for years. A platform that doesn’t just layer on more tooling, but fundamentally rethinks how work flows. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to reimagine work from the beginning, and exactly the kind of problem I’m excited to solve.

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If you’re an engineer, designer, founder, or investor excited about the future of agentic software — we should talk.

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We’re just getting started.