AI Splits the Accounting Bundle: Bookkeeping Detaches From the General Ledger as Ramp, Canopy, and Intuit Ship Close-Automation Agents

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Ramp's Accounting Agent auto-codes transactions in real time at 90%+ accuracy and ~3.5x the rate of legacy tools, Canopy Bookkeeping moves to broader beta this summer, and Intuit embeds Assist into QuickBooks — each peeling the categorization-and-close grunt work away from the general-ledger bundle. The timing pressure is current: Brex's acquisition by Capital One is set to close this summer, reshaping the spend-management layer that feeds these agents. For builders, finance is following support and BI — the agent eats the workflow while the system-of-record keeps the data.