Event Moment: Naveen Agrawal on Building an ‘AI Everywhere’ Strategy for Tax Compliance

In this fireside chat with John Siefert, Naveen Agrawal, Director, Product Management, AI & Innovation at Avalara, outlined how Avalara is embedding AI agents across enterprise applications to make tax compliance more intelligent and proactive.

Key Takeaways

An “AI Everywhere” Strategy Brings Tax Intelligence into Daily Work: Rather than requiring users to switch applications, Avalara is embedding AI agents across browsers, email, spreadsheets, ERP systems, and business applications, allowing tax guidance to appear wherever work is happening.

AI Is Expanding Beyond Domestic Tax Compliance: Avalara is extending its AI capabilities to support increasingly complex global tax scenarios, including cross-border transactions, customs and duties, multi-jurisdiction calculations, and evolving e-invoicing requirements.

Purpose-Built Agents Keep Humans in Control: Instead of relying on a single general-purpose assistant, Avalara is developing specialized agents for different tax and finance tasks. These agents coordinate behind the scenes while accountants, controllers, and tax managers remain in control of final decisions.