Goldman Sachs Leads $75M Series C in Fieldguide to Scale Audit AI

Fieldguide announced a $75 million Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives to expand its agentic AI platform for audit and advisory. The San Francisco company said the financing, announced Feb. 2, 2026, brings total funding to $125 million and values Fieldguide at $700 million.

Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives was named lead investor, with new investor Geodesic and participation from existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, and Thomson Reuters among other leading investors. Fieldguide described its product as an "agentic AI-native platform for audit and advisory" that embeds AI agents alongside human professionals to execute high-volume, repeatable, and data-intensive work across the full lifecycle of an engagement.

Harris Pollack, Vice President, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, framed the investment as an industry-changing bet on blending human judgment with automated execution. "The future of audit and advisory depends on how effectively firms combine human judgment with AI-driven execution. Fieldguide embeds AI and agentic workflows directly into how engagements are delivered – helping firms move faster while maintaining the standards that the profession depends on. This establishes a new foundation for how the audit and advisory industry will operate," Pollack said.

Fieldguide CEO and co-founder Jin Chang, a former CPA, positioned the round as capital to scale a tested model. "We built Fieldguide to support the people doing this work and to solve a structural problem in the profession," Chang said. "This funding allows us to scale a proven model where agentic AI and human experts work together to increase capacity, elevate quality, and build a more sustainable future for audit and advisory."

The company said its platform is already in use across major firms. Fieldguide listed KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, CBIZ, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), CohnReznick, Wipfli LLP, Carr Riggs & Ingram, Cherry Bekaert, Aprio LLP, UHY Advisors Inc., Weaver, LBMC, Elliott Davis, Frazier & Deeter, Cohen & Co, BerryDunn, Schellman, and Warren Averett as customers, and asserted it is used by half of the Top 100 U.S. accounting firms, including members of the Big Four. Fieldguide also highlighted industry recognition, naming the company as the recipient of the Accounting Today Top New Products Award and a five time winner of the CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award.

For employees in audit and advisory roles, the technology pitch is straightforward: automate manual execution to free practitioners for judgment, client relationships, and strategic advisory work. FinTech Global framed the market problem as a "significant structural capacity shortfall" driven by rising regulatory complexity, increasing client expectations, and a shrinking pool of qualified professionals. Fieldguide and its investors say agentic AI can help close that gap by scaling capacity and consistency.

The funding also signals increased investor appetite for workplace automation that augments professional services. A Growth Equity LinkedIn post accompanying the announcement emphasized that the capital will "accelerate product innovation and further Fieldguide’s mission to modernize the audit and advisory profession."

What this means for readers is practical: expect more firms to pilot or expand AI-embedded workflows, and for job descriptions and training to shift toward supervision, judgment, and advisory skills rather than routine execution. The next step is whether firms publicly share deployment metrics and governance controls as adoption scales.