Spring Street AI — AI advisory for CPA firms in Los Angeles

The shift

AI in CPA firms went from experimental to mainstream in twelve months.

Three numbers from the 2025 industry research that frame why this conversation matters now.

9% → 41%

AI adoption among accounting firms, 2024 → 2025. The early-adopter window is closing.

62%

of accounting professionals are now using generative AI daily — a profession-wide tipping point.

7.5 days

faster month-end close for firms using AI — roughly one full work-week of capacity recovered every month.

Sources: CPA.com 2025 AI in Accounting Report; Journal of Accountancy, August 2025.

Where we work

Five workflows where AI is doing real work today.

Each is a focused, contained problem with measurable outcomes — not a vendor pitch about transformation.

Tax-notice triage

Drop in any IRS, FTB, or sales-tax notice; get a one-page summary plus a draft response in 60 seconds. Partner reviews and signs.

Document intake

Extract structured data from messy 1099s, W-2s, and K-1s with greater than 95% accuracy. 90% reduction in manual keying.

Bookkeeping close

AI-assisted categorization, anomaly detection, and pre-built close — 7.5 days faster month-end with the same headcount.

Client email triage

Long client threads summarized into briefs; replies drafted in your firm's voice; partner only sees what needs partner judgment.

Tax research

Plain-English question to cited authority in 15 minutes instead of three to five hours. Answers grounded in source documents.

Internal knowledge

Capture the firm's institutional memory — partner judgment, prior engagements, working style — into an internal assistant.

The engagement

90-day pilots. One workflow. Real ROI.

Engagements are intentionally small and focused — proof through one workflow, not promise through a hundred.

A typical pilot

One workflow. Two trained staff. Measurable outcome.

We work with you to pick the single highest-leverage workflow in your firm, build it, train two of your people on it, document it, and prove ROI — all in 90 days, with no commitment beyond that.

Fee

$5,000 / month

$15,000 over the 90-day pilot. Below market for AI advisory engagements; deliberately small for proof.

Time commitment

8–10 hours / week

On-site or remote, weekly working sessions with your designated leads.

Day 90 deliverable

Working workflow + ROI report

Two trained staff, written ROI report, and a roadmap of the next three workflows to tackle.

Commitment

90 days, then stop or continue

If the value is not clear at day 90, we end clean. If it is, we continue at the same rate.

The principal

Sanjeev Chowdhry — engineer, operator, AI student.

Electrical engineer · 1979
Forty years operating businesses
Twelve months focused on AI in professional services
California-based · Old Bank District, DTLA

Sanjeev is an electrical engineer who graduated in 1979 from one of India's top-ranked technical universities. He has spent the last forty years running operating businesses across multiple industries — the kind of work that teaches you how a real organization adopts new technology, where the friction lives, and why most "transformation" engagements fail at the last mile.

For the last twelve months he has been studying AI deliberately, and specifically as it applies inside professional-services firms. Spring Street AI is the result: a small practice operated through Micro Web Systems, Inc., focused on a handful of CPA firms in Southern California where the engagement can be hands-on rather than hands-off. Engineer's mind, operator's judgment, no consulting-firm overhead, no software-vendor agenda.

The practice is not for everyone. It is for firms whose leaders already sense that the next two years will matter — and who would rather work with a peer who has done the homework than a vendor with a deck.