Xero has one of the most interesting questions this former accountant has heard all year: What’s the price of never having to do a bank reconciliation again?

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, the $20 billion software company’s chief executive, is due to drop the AI price hammer. Her developers have come up with all sorts of AI-based features inside Xero’s software, have had customers test them and use them for free, and will shortly ask customers to start paying for them.