Xforce by Xero: Team of Forward-Deployed Engineers and Partner Consultants to Help Accounting Firms Put AI to Work

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 11, 2026--

Xero (ASX: XRO), the global small business platform, today announced Xforce by Xero (Xforce), which will provide accounting firms with a team of forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) and partner consultants to work with them to design their workflows for the AI era, on a trusted platform they control. The team will leverage XeroForce, Xero’s APIs and Xero OS, and integrate with other software in a practice’s technology stack to automate workflows end-to-end.

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XeroForce, announced in May, helps practices turn manual tasks into durable, scalable workflows. Xforce brings the expertise - FDEs and partner consultants - to help firms put it to work for their practice, their employees, and their small business clients.

“Building on positive feedback on XeroForce in beta, Xforce by Xero puts experienced experts in the field with firms, helping them embed trusted, repeatable and scalable AI workflows that deliver greater consistency and efficiency, and give them time back to reinvest in growing their practice,” said Diya Jolly, President of Product and Technology at Xero.

Xforce is in beta and is initially being developed with a handful of design partners in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, including Liston Newton Advisory in Australia, Nexia Christchurch and Shepherd Hensman in New Zealand and Azets and Sumer in the UK.

"Xero is excited to be working with these firms as our first design partners for Xforce by Xero. Together, we’ll explore how AI and automation can make everyday accounting simpler, giving their people more time to support their clients. Our shared ambition is to champion clients’ success, combining great technology with the personal advice and support that help their businesses thrive," said Jolly.

Xero brings 20 years of proprietary data and infrastructure trusted by more than 5 million customers around the world, along with a deep understanding of the workflows that matter to accountants and bookkeepers. All of Xero’s AI innovations, including JAX, its agentic platform, are grounded in Accountable Intelligence and sit within the AI-native Xero OS.

“Accountants and bookkeepers are being asked to do more with fewer people, and fewer are entering the profession,” said Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, CEO of Xero. “AI can help, but to scale it firms need hands-on support to build it into the way they work. Our partner consultants provided that support when thousands of firms moved from desktop to cloud, and now Xforce is designed to do the same for AI, with every firm deciding what gets automated on a trusted platform they control.”

With Xforce firms decide which clients and data the workflows touch.

About Xero

Xero is a global small business platform and a trusted financial operating system for the AI era. Xero’s purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors and communities around the world. By unifying core financial operations (including accounting, payroll and payments) underpinned by insights and a robust ecosystem into autonomous workflows, we empower more than five million small businesses and accountants and bookkeepers across 180+ countries to move from managing records to making informed decisions. For further information, please visit xero.com.

Xforce by Xero provides team of forward-deployed engineers & partner consultants to help accountants put AI to work

NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site Wednesday afternoon, killing at least two people and trapping others beneath the wreckage.

News helicopter footage showed scores of firefighters scouring the debris in the borough’s Flatbush section, clambering over the rubble pile and using their hands and power saws to get through the ruins.

At least 10 people were rushed to a hospital with injuries, including four in critical condition, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a news conference. Fire officials said their search and rescue operations would continue for several days.

“We do not know how many people were missing overall,” said New York City Fire’s chief of department, John Esposito.

At around 6:30 p.m., firefighters pulled a dust-covered person — still alive and moving — out of a hole they had dug into the rubble pile, hoisting them up on a stretcher and rushing them to a waiting ambulance.

The building that collapsed — a mixed-use structure with apartments sitting atop businesses — had been perched at the edge of a lot where another one-story building had been torn down for a construction project. The site was being excavated, and the building that fell down filled the construction pit with bricks and wood.

Another building that shared a wall with the collapsed structure remained standing, but its wall was shorn off, exposing the rooms inside, including a bedroom and closets filled with clothing.

A drone hovered over the site as firefighters dug by hand, tossing chunks of rubble aside. Rescuers also used dogs to sniff for survivors. As darkness fell, firefighters used flashlights to illuminate the area where they worked.

“As emergency operations continue, please join me in holding our neighbors and the members of this community in our hearts,” Mamdani said in a statement posted to social media.

Phone and email messages seeking comment were left with the architect, property owner and general contractor listed in city records as being associated with the construction project.

One resident of the collapsed building, Anderson Velez, told the New York Post he was at work when his wife called and said she and their two kids, ages 7 and 2, were trapped in the wreckage.

“She called me when the building collapsed while she was inside with rubble on top of her. She was screaming for someone to help get my son out and then the call cut off,” he said.

Velez later learned that his family had been pulled from the rubble alive, he added.

First responders rescue a person after a building collapsed after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

This screengrab taken from video provided by WABC-TV shows authorities responding to a building collapse Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (WABC-TV via AP)