Every time tax season used to roll around, Montréal’s Nima Jalalvandi says it brought him nothing but stress. As the go-to person who did taxes for his family and friends, Jalalvandi said it was like “spring cleaning, with none of the benefits.”

Jalalvandi and his co-founders have responded by building Ready Plan Go , an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that aims to automate the grunt paperwork for accountants and let them spend more time giving clients tax and financial-planning advice.

“We want to increase satisfaction so accountants feel they can do meaningful work.”

Ready Plan Go calls its software an “AI-powered back office” for tax preparers. It’s meant to speed up document collection, data extraction from digital documents, and tax software form entry.

“We want to increase

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