XU Podcast

XU caught up with Gavin Sneddon, Director at The Dot HQ, an outsourced accounting firm that helps accountancy firms and SMEs scale by building dedicated offshore teams across bookkeeping, accounting, audit, and admin.

XU caught up with Meryl Johnston, chartered accountant and co-founder of Bean Ninjas and TeamUp. They talk about growing Bean Ninjas from a single Australian Xero firm into a business spanning Australia, the US, and the UK, and how that experience led her into TeamUp, which recruits accountants and bookkeepers in the Philippines through what she calls ethical, offshore (not outsourced) hiring.

XU sit down with Damien Greathead. Known from Receipt Bank (Dext), Practice Ignition (Ignition), and Intuit QuickBooks and about life after leaving corporate and the three ventures he's running now: consulting for firms and tech companies, MoneyPenny, and Pre-Flight Labs.

XU sat down with Joanna Modugno, GM of Dext for the US and Canada. We dive into the differences between Dext's Canada and US markets, how Dext is evolving beyond its receipt-capture roots into AI-assisted workflow automation, and what's coming next with payments.

XU caught up with Jeff Seibert, founder and CEO of Digits, to talk about building an AI-native accounting platform from the ground up. They cover why Digits uses deterministic machine learning rather than LLMs, how it auto-books 95%+ of transactions, and what sets it apart from Xero, QuickBooks, and MYOB as they bolt AI onto older architectures.

XU caught up with Genie, CEO and founder of Levvy, a practice management tool built out of her own experience running an accounting firm for creatives in New York for 20 years. They talk about the visibility gaps in existing practice management tools, why capturing client context and "human touch" details matters, and how her firm's advisory-first culture shaped Levvy's design.