This year’s Intapp Amplify brought together more than 2,600 clients, partners, industry leaders, and Intapp team members for candid conversation, live product demonstrations, and our vision of agentic AI for professional and financial services firms.
The energy across both the New York and London events reflected something larger than a product launch. It reflected an industry at an inflection point — where the question is no longer whether AI will transform how firms operate, but whether your firm will lead that transformation or follow.
Here are the key themes that defined Amplify 2026.
Your AI should be as unique as your firm
Intapp CEO John Hall opened Amplify with the framework that set the tone for the rest of the day — specifically, that accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, private capital, and real assets firms aren’t like other businesses. Three things set them apart:
- Their people and their decision-making skills
- Their proprietary knowledge and relationships
- Their reputations, which rely on meeting some of the most demanding client and regulatory obligations in any industry
General-purpose AI tools don’t — and can’t — adequately address those differentiators and challenges. “When every firm has the same AI models trained on the same public data,” Hall said, “the firms that win will be the ones that put their own proprietary knowledge to work inside those models.”
That insight is the foundation of what Intapp calls Firm AI — a category of AI that goes beyond individual productivity to power the firmwide workflows that drive growth, ensure compliance, and protect client relationships.
The biggest announcement in Intapp’s history:
Intapp Celeste
The centerpiece of Amplify was the announcement of Intapp Celeste, our AI-native agentic platform built from the ground up for Firm AI.
Celeste is not a chatbot or copilot add-on. It’s a platform that runs expert AI agents through firm-defined playbooks — codified workflows that embed a firm’s own methodology, compliance logic, and institutional knowledge directly into the AI. Celeste connects proprietary data across clients, deals, relationships, and engagement history, and enforces ethical walls, insider lists, and independence rules automatically at the architecture level.
Intapp Chief Product Officer Thad Jampol described the shift this way:
This isn’t just about making individuals faster. This is about what your firm becomes when it can operate at the scale of its own ambition.
Thad Jampol, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Intapp
Live demonstrations showed Celeste in action across three business outcomes: growth, compliance, and profitability. We covered deal screening that compresses days of analyst work into minutes. Intake and conflicts workflows powered by AI agents that run continuously. Time and billing intelligence that surfaces revenue leakage. And AI adoption data that firms have never been able to see before.
Governance is the foundation, not the feature
One theme came through with striking consistency from clients, partners, and Intapp leadership alike: AI only creates value in professional services if it operates within the right boundaries.
Darren Cohen, Co-Head and CIO of Global Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs, noted that governance architecture matters as much as AI capabilities — and firms with deep compliance and regulatory expertise are uniquely positioned to lead.
David Buza, CTO of Solomon Partners, described Intapp’s domain expertise as “a force multiplier” in his firm’s AI strategy.
And Jonathan Boyers, Head of Corporate Finance at Alvarez & Marsal, clearly stated the stakes: Firms need AI that protects client data, verifies outputs, and earns the trust of regulators.
Intapp uniquely addresses this need with Intapp Walls for AI — the industry standard for professional compliance that extends ethical walls, MNPI controls, independence rules, and other professional compliance needs across a firm’s entire AI ecosystem. We also announced that Harvey — one of the fastest-growing AI platforms for the practice of law — is standardizing on Walls for AI to power its confidentiality controls. This announcement underscored just how central governance has become to AI adoption in this space.
The ecosystem approach is winning
Microsoft and Anthropic took the stage at Amplify to discuss how they’re working with Intapp, and both companies made the same essential point: No single company can deliver the full depth that professional and financial services firms require.
Uli Homann, Corporate Vice President of Cloud and AI at Microsoft, described the partnership dynamic as one where “one plus one ought to be three” — with Microsoft providing enterprise-scale infrastructure, Anthropic providing frontier model intelligence and a focus on safety and trust, and Intapp providing the deep industry specialization that neither can replicate alone.
Eleanor Dorfman, Head of Industries at Anthropic, was candid about the limits of even a company of Anthropic’s scale: “We do not have the ability to be inside of all of these companies delivering the tailored experience that Intapp is focused on.” Anthropic’s strategy, she explained, is to build the underlying intelligence and work with ecosystem partners like Intapp to deliver that intelligence where it matters most: inside regulated enterprise environments.
We do not have the ability to be inside of all of these companies delivering the tailored experience that Intapp is focused on.
Eleanor Dorfman, Head of Industries, Anthropic
Clients are moving from experimentation to transformation
Perhaps the most grounding moments at Amplify came from the client voices on stage and in video.
Grant Thornton CEO Jim Peko described committing a billion dollars to AI and technology as part of a broader transformation — one built on a single data foundation, a unified operating model, and a belief that “responding incrementally had actually become our biggest risk.”