Learning to Learn Again
My education taught me to learn. The knowledge it gave me is already obsolete. If AI handles the output, the question isn't what you know—it's whether you know how to steer the machine that knows everything.
AI in Internal Audit
A knowledge worker watching their own profession get disrupted—and documenting it.
Notes on AI, automation, and the future of knowledge professions. By Mike Broekhof.
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The Governance Gap
AI adoption is accelerating so fast that providers are throttling access and companies are building token leaderboards. Inside every organization, two cohorts are forming. And nobody has written the governance rulebook yet.
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Your First AI Week
The big firms have already made their bet. Here's a practical workflow to make yours — one hour a day, go hard, and stop being polite to the machines.
The Fee Is Falling
KPMG just demanded a 14% fee cut from its own auditor—citing AI. A law firm replaced a departing associate with AI tools and saw costs drop 27%. The economics of professional services are being rewritten in real time.
When Your Auditee Doesn't Need You Anymore
The SaaSpocalypse wasn't about one product. It was the market recognizing that middlemen get eliminated when knowledge becomes abundant. Here's what that means for audit—and every knowledge profession.
About
I'm Mike Broekhof—a Chartered Accountant and Certified Internal Auditor based in the Netherlands, experimenting with what happens when AI meets a profession built on judgment, skepticism, and documentation.
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Automated audit workflows, continuous control monitoring agents, and AI governance frameworks. The goal isn't to replace auditors—it's to understand what parts of the profession can be automated.
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