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Leroy Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Filed, the AI tax preparation platform designed to boost offshore team quality and free onshore teams for higher-value work. With a background in SaaS startups and fintech, Leroy built Filed to address urgent labor shortages in the accounting profession. Filed automates the most tedious aspects of return prep, helping firms deliver faster, higher-quality service and adapt to evolving staffing challenges. Filed's technology slots directly into firms’ existing workflows, using AI trained specifically for tax work to read documents, apply company-specific strategies, and manage data entry. Leroy's vision for Filed is long-term transformation: to become the foundational AI infrastructure for the tax industry, supporting everything from client collaboration to document management and audit preparation.