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Why Your AI Is Confidently Wrong — And What To Do About It

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Why Your AI Is Confidently Wrong — And What To Do About It

In our most recent AI webinar, we showed you just how powerful everyday AI tools can be. But there's a catch every practitioner has felt: the moment you need a binary, accurate, reliable answer, AI's usefulness starts to wobble.

So how do you work with AI safely, accurately, and predictably, every single day, in a real practice?

We're bringing together two of the sharpest minds in the profession to pull back the curtain on how AI errors actually happen - and more importantly, how the right prompting techniques and "context farming" can fundamentally change the way you use and trust AI in your work.

Join Alastair Barlow and Sebastian Trif leading experts in the applying AI within accountancy - for an hour packed with practical, usable insight. You'll learn:

  • Why AI gets things wrong - the real reason models fail the "how many R's in strawberry" test, and what that reveals about their limits
  • AI vs. generative AI vs. machine learning, the difference that actually matters for how you use these tools day to day
  • Why context is everything, how AI infers answers, and how to feed it the context it needs to get them right
  • Prompt engineering that works, practical techniques you can apply immediately for sharper, more reliable results

If you're using AI in your practice (who isn’t?) this is the session that turns uncertainty into control.



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    Alastair Barlow Former CEO @ Flinder

    Chartered accountant turned founder, speaker and mentor. I co-founded flinder and pioneered the smart finance function®, scaling it to 40 people before its acquisition by Ascendant in 2024. I remain a shareholder, supporting M&A strategy and revenue growth. I'm now building Numbrs, an AI-native operating system for modern finance firms. I care about the future of the profession and how we can better serve clients to help them deliver their strategy. I write The Naked Accountant - an unfiltered take on building, scaling and exiting in an AI-shaped world - and run Finance Takes The Piste.

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    Sebastian Trif AI Engineer

    Full-stack engineer turned repeat founder. Originally a game developer, I built mobile apps, currency corridors and game mechanics at Chase UK and WISE before founding Aurelia. I'm now building Numbrs, an AI-native operating system for modern finance firms, bringing 12 years of software craft to the challenge of reimagining finance infrastructure. I care about interfaces that work, systems that scale, and products people actually want to use. Together with Alastair, I run the AI Exchange - an informal roundtable for accountants to share their practical uses of AI in accounting.

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