CPA-founded platform recognized for bringing governed, firm-defined AI to audit and accounting workflows, helping firms adopt AI with the controls and consistency their standards require.
HICKSVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- HKMP Technologies, LLC today announced that Amelio AI has been named a winner of the 2026 Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards from CPA Practice Advisor. Now in their 23rd year, the awards recognize new technologies that help tax and accounting professionals work more efficiently. An independent committee of technologists, thought leaders, and industry influencers selected the winners from a large field of nominees.
This year, most nominees had AI at their core, and Amelio AI was one of six winning products.
Founded and led by CPAs, Amelio is a workflow and methodology platform for accounting firms. It replaces standalone workflow tools and sits alongside the engagement, document, and practice management systems a firm already runs. Firms define their forms, workflows, and methodology in Amelio, and the platform enforces them on every engagement. Amelio AI is the intelligence layer inside that platform. The firm defines the rules, the standards, and the workpapers, not the software. Amelio AI works like well-trained staff, following the firm's methodology on every client, and a professional reviews and approves everything it prepares before its final.
"We built Amelio so firms could define their own process, and we built Amelio AI the same way. A firm's process is shaped by its staff, its clients, and its tools, and it works because it fits them. The firm sets the rules, Amelio AI does the work within them, and a professional sign off before anything is final," said Steve Barrett, President and co-founder of Amelio.
Amelio AI capabilities include:
- WorkPaperAi. The firm teaches it a skill once, using prior year workpapers and the firm's own rules for how that workpaper should be built. When that step comes up in the workflow, the skill is available: staff upload the client's PBC schedules, source documents, and prior-year workpapers, and WorkPaperAi prepares the current-year workpaper the way the firm taught it.
- Amelio Risk Assessment AI. Staff upload the client's source documents, and Amelio AI reviews them alongside the existing risk assessment and other engagement information. It suggests new risks and updates to existing ones, rates them, and fills in the risk assessment. The auditor reviews each suggestion and accepts or adjusts it before applying. Once applied, Amelio's workflow logic shows the audit procedures that follow from each audit area, assertion, and risk rating, and any WorkPaperAi skill tied to those procedures is ready to run.
- Alli. An assistant in Microsoft Teams. Staff ask it plain-language questions about deadlines, open work, and engagement status, and it answers from the firm's data in Amelio and flags items that need attention.
The full list of winners is available at CPA Practice Advisor.
About Amelio
Amelio is a workflow and methodology platform for accounting firms. It covers tax and audit workflows, engagement letters, client onboarding, and audit methodology, and sits alongside the engagement, document, and practice management systems a firm already runs. Firms can use one product or the full suite. With configurable templates, role-based controls, and extensive APIs, firms manage their processes their way.
Amelio AI is the intelligence layer built into the platform. It includes WorkPaperAi for workpaper preparation, Risk Assessment AI for audit planning, and Alli, an assistant in Microsoft Teams. Everything it prepares follows the firm's own rules and is reviewed and approved by a professional before it is final.
Learn more about Amelio at www.ameliosuite.com and follow us @ameliosoftware.
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Tom Bonaventura, HKMP Technologies, LLC, 1 (917) 768-8314, [email protected], https://www.ameliosuite.com/
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