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Intuit makes financial software including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma and Mailchimp for consumers and small businesses.
Intuit is buying London-founded Sequence to add billing and revenue recognition to QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite. The Times put the price near $200 million, Tech.eu reported, about five times the roughly $40 million Sequence raised.
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Intuit signed an agreement to buy Sequence, a New York Series A revenue management startup, and did not disclose terms. Intuit says the product lets it price, bill and collect on usage, seat and milestone revenue.
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Intuit switched on Intuit Intelligence in Australia on 14 October, in beta for QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Advanced customers. iTWire reports that Xero and MYOB have spent the past year wiring AI agents into their own ledgers.
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Apollo's GraphOS Agent Services sets access rules on each API field an AI agent can reach and enforces them in policy outside the model. For companies already on GraphOS, agent access becomes a rule the API layer applies to every agent at once.
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Intuit added Meta's Muse to its QuickBooks connector, so small businesses can run payroll, close books and file taxes from Meta's assistant. Muse joins OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity as partners, and each one works from permissioned ledger data that Intuit controls.
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Meta launched Muse for Small Business on Tuesday, pitching the AI agent at the 200 million small business owners it says use its platforms. How much cash it brings in depends on how many owners pay for higher limits and how much ad spend comes from the campaigns it drafts.
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Intuit retires the ProAdvisor program in early 2027 for firm-level ProPartner tiers scored on client software spend, with US revenue share stretching from 12 months at 10 percent to three years at up to 25 percent.
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Google's Agent Payments Protocol makes an agent's authority to pay a cryptographically signed mandate holding price limits, timing and other conditions. Whoever drafts those conditions is setting spend policy.
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Intermezzo, founded by two former Intuit leaders, sells a white-label payroll API to platforms that would otherwise add a vendor per country. Two of its backers are corporate venture arms from payroll and workforce software.
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Fiscal 2027 guidance misses consensus by 1.4% at the midpoint, and the after-hours drop was 10%, roughly seven times the shortfall. The admission about price explains the gap.
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Its first standalone forecast for the product is minus 1% to zero, in a year the company as a whole grew 14%. Intuit never published what Mailchimp actually made.
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There was never a disaster quarter. Six years of decelerating growth and a fee that ignored merchant volume did the work, and a smaller rival now sets the price.
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Nine broken IIF files produced nine identical success dialogs on QuickBooks Mac. Two of those runs posted nothing, and one still created accounts of the wrong type.
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A doubled quarterly revenue rate and 600-plus customers bought a $1B valuation. What nobody has tested is whether an agent-booked ledger survives a public-company audit.
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The round closed in 48 hours without a process. The harder question is whether 600 customers taken off Intuit and NetSuite prove ERP stopped being sticky, or only that it never was at the small end.
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ClickHouse has acquired Langfuse, folding the leading open-source LLM observability project into the database it already ran on. Teams that standardized on it inherit a lock-in decision.
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