Show Notes
Jack and Amy take you behind the 'tech' scenes at XeroCon. With over 3,500 attendees and enough tech news to crash your browser, it really is the Coachella of accounting. From the flashy product reveals to the quiet coffee chats that spark big ideas, we dig into all the latest. Xero’s new Partner Hub is aiming to be your one-stop dashboard dream, Jax AI is flexing some serious smarts thanks to a new OpenAI partnership, and Work Papers is teaming up with BGL to make compliance just that bit sm...
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