Thrive Holdings(@ThriveHoldings):In the early 1990s, the accounting firm RRBB owned four computers for a staff of around 30. They called them “lunch boxes”: 30-pound machines that auditors lugged through airports and into client offices. The New Jersey firm was founded more than 65 years ago and has adapted through each new wave of technological transformation, from writing tax returns on green ledger paper to asking software to auto-sort numbers. In 2024, they became the first firm to join our accounting platform, Current. The firm’s history is less a story of computers replacing practitioners than of practitioners repeatedly learning what a computer can’t do on its own. This is the first in a series about the people and firms rethinking professional services around AI. Here is RRBB’s story:

2026.09.02 14:00

In the early 1990s, the accounting firm RRBB owned four computers for a staff of around 30. They called them “lunch boxes”: 30-pound machines that auditors lugged through airports and into client offices. The New Jersey firm was founded more than 65 years ago and has adapted through each new wave of technological transformation, from writing tax returns on green ledger paper to asking software to auto-sort numbers. In 2024, they became the first firm to join our accounting platform, Current. The firm’s history is less a story of computers replacing practitioners than of practitioners repeatedly learning what a computer can’t do on its own. This is the first in a series about the people and firms rethinking professional services around AI. Here is RRBB’s story: