Thomson Reuters Initiates the New Age of Artificial Intelligence through the Introduction of Agentic Intelligence
Whoaaaaaaaaaaa! Thomson Reuters has just dropped some next-level AI shit, mate! They've gone beyond traditional AI assistants and cooked up agentic AI systems, and it's blowing my mind!
See, these new agentic buddies go beyond just answering queries – they plan, strategize, and take action inside real workflows. They don't need humans hand-holding, and they can finesse complex, multi-step jobs with precision and accountability – just what professionals need to get their shit done. Unlike general AI, Thomson Reuters' agentic beasts are refined by legal, tax, audit, and accounting experts to reason in line with professional standards and best practices while keeping human oversight on the loop for that final call.
David Wong, the Chief Product Officer at Thomson Reuters, sums it up perfectly: "Agentic AI ain't just a buzzword, mate. It's a new game plan for how complex work gets done. We're delivering systems that don't just assist but operate inside the workflows professionals use every day. The AI understands the goal, breaks it into steps, takes action, and knows when to call in the humans – all with human oversight built in to ensure accountability and trust."
Now, Thomson Reuters' agentic platform has been under the banger for over a year, with a boost from its acquisition of Materia – the AI copilot startup specializing in agentic systems for tax and accounting. The guts of the system are already live across products used by some of the largest accounting firms in the US, and it's being embedded into legal, tax, risk, and compliance platforms – all fine-tuned for high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are non-negotiables.
Instead of constructing standalone agentic tools, Thomson Reuters is re-architecting core product experiences, siphoning vital features and content from platforms like Checkpoint, Westlaw, and Practical Law, and empowering their agentic pals to use them – letting the AI operate within accepted industry best practices and then supercharging them with generative AI.
"We're not just rebranding AI assistants, mate. We're engineering full agentic systems backed by trusted content, custom-trained models, and genuine domain expertise," said Wong. "What others are calling agentic, we've already had in the market. What we're launching now sets a new bar: THIS is what AI looks like when it's built with real-world content, tuned by experts, and trusted by the pros who actually work a day in, day out."
The first of these new agentic experiences is now live: CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting pros, a vertical-specific AI agent designed for modern tax and accounting pros. CoCounsel automates the real work – from client file review to memo drafting and compliance checks – while spitting out easily-understood outputs. It connects firm knowledge, IRS codes, and internal documents into a single AI-guided workspace.
Rich Marlatt, Chief Information Officer at BLISS 1041, is already seeing the benefits of CoCounsel: "Before CoCounsel, we used to suffer through manually comparing residency and filing codes across 36 states – each jurisdiction took half a week to fully review. Now it takes under an hour with CoCounsel!"
The launch of CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting professionals is just the start – but Thomson Reuters isn't slowing down anytime soon. Next up, they're launching Ready to Review, an agentic tax prep application that's redefining professional-grade AI. And they've got more agentic workflow wonders in the pipeline for legal, risk, and compliance domains – including intelligent drafting, employment policy generation, deposition analysis, and compliance risk assessments.
Thomson Reuters isn't just stepping up the agentic game – they're dominating it and setting the bar high for the rest of the industry. You better watch out, because the future of work just got a whole lot smarter – and Thomson Reuters is driving the charge. Who wants to join the revolution? Let's do this, mate! #AgenticAI #ThomsonReuters #FutureOfWork
The new agentic AI systems developed by Thomson Reuters not only assist but operate within the workflows professionals use daily, taking action and planning with precision and accountability, set apart from traditional AI assistants. These systems are tailored by legal, tax, audit, and accounting experts to reason in line with professional standards and best practices while maintaining human oversight for final decisions.
Thomson Reuters' agentic platform, which includes the newly launched CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting professionals, automates real work tasks, such as client file review, memo drafting, and compliance checks, reducing workloads in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are critical.
