BDO partners with Fieldguide to advance AI-enabled risk advisory delivery

Brussels and San Francisco — [March 24, 2026] — BDO’s risk and advisory practice today announced a strategic collaboration with Fieldguide, a leading agentic AI platform for advisory. Fieldguide will work with BDO’s Risk Advisory Service (RAS) professionals across individual member firms worldwide to elevate engagement delivery through responsible, practitioner-led use of agentic AI in their daily work.

BDO’s initial implementation of Fieldguide is centred on RAS offerings, including internal audit and third-party assurance, with plans to expand use of the platform over time to additional advisory services. BDO Belgium is leading the initiative globally, with several other member firms already directly working with Fieldguide and adopting the platform, with significant further uptake expected.

Through this collaboration, BDO’s RAS practices are working with Fieldguide to develop bespoke solutions exclusive to the individual member firm and are advancing a new operating model that integrates AI agents into day-to-day service delivery, supporting time-intensive and administrative tasks across the engagement lifecycle. This relationship will allow professionals to focus more deeply on analysis and insight, ultimately enhancing client relationships and outcomes.

“BDO is making a strategic, long-term investment in our capability and delivery of risk services,” said Koen Claessens, Global Risk Advisory Leader at BDO. “Our relationship with Fieldguide not only helps improve efficiency and organisation; it also helps drive consistent quality, scalable capabilities, and delivery. By developing BDO bespoke solutions with Fieldguide and embedding AI in a way that enhances our ability to deliver greater value to our clients, we are positioning our teams to meet increasingly complex client needs while staying true to our people-centred culture.”

In 2025, BDO outlined a global digital and AI investment of US$1 billion over several years to enhance capabilities and solutions for clients. This long-term investment is part of BDO’s strategy to enhance digital and technology integration and collaboration across the network to better serve its worldwide client base.

“BDO is building the firm of the future by focusing on tools and innovation, whilst maintaining the heart of our business - our people.” Belinda Thompson, Global Head of IT at BDO.

“At BDO, AI isn’t about automation; it’s about amplification. By responsibly embedding AI into how we deliver high-value work, we give our people more time for insight, analysis, and client connection. This is how we innovate delivery while staying true to our people-centred culture.

“This human-centric approach ensures BDO is at the forefront in a new wave of innovation. Our collaboration with Fieldguide is an important step on this journey, opening new opportunities to scale capabilities across BDO service lines.”

Fieldguide’s platform embeds professional-grade AI agents across planning, testing, review, and reporting, with full human oversight. Purpose-built for regulated environments, the platform is configurable to enforce consistent application of firm methodologies and provide transparency and traceability throughout the engagement lifecycle.

This collaboration embeds agentic AI into engagement workflows to enhance consistency, quality, and professional trust. By combining practitioner expertise with AI-enabled execution, BDO’s Risk Advisory teams within member firms can significantly improve organisational efficiency and service delivery.

“The firms that will lead the next decade are those that effectively combine human judgment with AI execution,” said Jin Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of Fieldguide. “BDO’s Risk Advisory approach is using AI to elevate quality, consistency, and practitioner impact while keeping professionals firmly at the center of each engagement. We’re proud to team with BDO as they scale this model.”

 

About Fieldguide  

Fieldguide is a 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. 

Fieldguide is also the recipient of the Accounting Today Top New Products Award 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.