About this episode

Gavin Nachbar discusses the complexities of building a modern tax engine and the role of AI in tax filing.

If AI is about to transform tax filing, why do 55% of Americans still trust a human to do it for them? In this episode, host Reggie Young sits down with Gavin Nachbar, founder of Column Tax and Chief Product Officer at Aiwyn, to unpack what it really takes to build in one of fintech’s most complex and overlooked spaces: tax filing. Gavin shares how Column Tax built the first modern embedded tax engine in the US, what AI is about to change for the 55% who still rely on a human preparer, and wh...

People in this episode

Host: Reggie Young

Guest: Gavin Nachbar

Topics covered

• tax filing
• AI in finance
• fintech
• embedded tax engine
• human tax preparers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Column Tax, Aiwyn

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