Ashley Francis

Ashley Francis is a CPA with 24 years of experience. She specializes in large trusts and estate tax compliance and consulting. She has been an eager advocate for AI and the accounting profession since she started working with ChatGPT in November, 2022. She is now a Microsoft MVP due to her work with Copilot and has been featured in a Microsoft blog article and spoken at the 2023 Microsoft Power Platform Conference. 

She spoke at over 8 conferences in 2023 alone on GenAI and accounting, including the AICPA's 2023 ENGAGE conference and 2023 Global Women's Leadership Summit. She was the Runner Up for CPA.com's 2023 'Innovative Practitioner Award' and is the founder of 'Kitchen Table Automations' - a newsletter and series of classes dedicated to making AI and Automation as friendly as possible for tax and accounting professionals.