Cherry Bekaert, a top 20 accounting and advisory firm, today announced it has selected Fieldguide, a leading AI-native platform for audit and advisory, as its strategic AI partner for financial audit. Building on an existing deployment within the Firm’s Risk and Cybersecurity practice, the expanded agreement consolidates audit and advisory engagement delivery across SOC, Financial Audit and Internal Audit onto a single AI-native platform, marking one of the most expansive commitments to agentic AI in the profession to date.
Cherry Bekaert will centralize planning, testing, review and reporting on Fieldguide across its Financial Audit, Internal Audit, and SOC practices, with a roadmap to extend further. Open APIs allow Fieldguide to integrate with the Firm's broader innovation infrastructure, supporting Cherry Bekaert's enterprise transformation agenda.
"Modernizing how audits are performed is core to our strategy, and Fieldguide gives us the platform to bring that vision firm-wide," said John Jobe, Assurance Services Leader and CEO at Cherry Bekaert LLP. "Our hands-on experience with Fieldguide in Risk and Cybersecurity gave us real confidence in the platform at scale. Expanding across audit and advisory services enhances how our teams collaborate, strengthens our ability to serve as trusted advisors to our clients, and sharpens our competitive positioning in advancing the use of AI."
Fieldguide embeds professional-grade Field Agents across the engagement lifecycle, with full human oversight. Purpose-built for regulated environments, the platform enforces consistent application of firm methodology and provides end-to-end traceability. As the first audit and advisory platform to earn AIUC-1 certification for agentic AI and to achieve ISO 42001 certification, Fieldguide meets the governance and trust standards required as the profession moves from experimentation to enterprise deployment.
"The talent math doesn't get better. The operating model has to," said Jin Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of Fieldguide. "With private capital pressing firms for credible AI strategies and the CPA pipeline at a 17-year low, leading firms are making foundational choices about how they operate, moving beyond point tools to firm-wide models where humans and agentic AI work together on every engagement. Cherry Bekaert is among the clearest examples to date of a top firm making that shift at scale."
As more firms make foundational choices about AI, partnerships like this one are emerging as the blueprint for how audit and advisory will be reshaped over the coming decade.
About Fieldguide
Fieldguide is the leading AI-native platform transforming how audit, advisory, and assurance work gets done. Purpose-built for regulated environments, Fieldguide brings professionals and agentic AI together to modernize engagement delivery from planning through close, enabling audit and advisory practitioners to deliver higher-quality work, strengthen client experiences, and unlock growth for the decade ahead. The first audit and advisory platform to earn AIUC-1 certification for agentic AI and ISO 42001 certified, Fieldguide is committed to the highest standards of AI governance, security, and trust.
Fieldguide is also the recipient of multiple Accounting Today Top New Products Awards as well as a five-time winner of the CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award.
Fieldguide is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, and other leading investors. Learn more at fieldguide.io.