Grant Thornton announced the launch of gtap, a proprietary cloud-based audit infrastructure platform designed to modernize audit execution through AI, analytics, and automation technologies.
The new system, called Grant Thornton Analytics & Automation Platform, is intended to transform how the firm conducts audits by embedding AI-driven workflows, analytics, and automation capabilities directly into the audit lifecycle.
According to Grant Thornton, gtap creates a unified and standardized environment for ingesting, transforming, and analyzing audit data across ERP systems while replacing fragmented legacy tools with a centralized infrastructure platform.
The company said the platform supports full-population data analysis, automated workpaper generation, AI-assisted audit workflows, and real-time identification of risks and anomalies while maintaining auditor oversight and professional judgment.
Grant Thornton plans to initially deploy gtap across private company audits before expanding the platform into public company audit engagements next year as part of a phased rollout across its U.S. Audit & Assurance practice.
The firm stated that gtap serves as the foundation for a future “agentic audit” model in which intelligent AI agents increasingly coordinate audit activities, continuously assess risks, and dynamically adapt audit procedures as new information emerges.
Grant Thornton said the platform is designed to improve audit quality, increase operational consistency, reduce manual processes, and provide clients with faster access to audit insights and data-driven risk analysis.
The infrastructure was originally developed by Grant Thornton Ireland and later enhanced collaboratively with Grant Thornton’s U.S. technology organization as part of the company’s multinational platform strategy.
Grant Thornton’s multinational platform currently includes nearly 20 aligned firms operating across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific regions.
KEY QUOTES:
“This represents one of our most significant investments in the future of audit. We are transforming how we audit and how we serve our clients, moving toward a data-led model that improves both the quality and efficiency of our work. By automating the transactional parts of the audit, our teams can focus their time where it matters most: helping clients by exercising professional skepticism and judgment, assessing risk and delivering real-time insights that help drive trust in the capital markets.”
“This is not about layering technology onto yesterday’s audit. We’re building something entirely different, while reinforcing that our professionals remain in control of the decision-making process and the judgments that matter most.”
“Our gtap technology strengthens audit quality at every level. By embedding automation, analytics and AI directly into audit execution, we’re increasing consistency across engagements and reducing variability and manual steps where errors and risk can occur.”
“The result is audit work that is more resilient, more repeatable and more transparent. When you build quality into the process itself, you raise the standard across the board.”
“When you put the right tools in people’s hands, they do their best work — and clients feel the difference.”
Ron Messenger, CEO, Grant Thornton LLP
“As AI advances, gtap will advance with it. The future depends on delivering audits that have more autonomy, generate better insights and are more aligned with how modern businesses operate.”
“We believe gtap is a great example of what makes our model so valuable. We’re taking a proven solution, scaling it across regions and building in next-generation technology, including agentic AI capabilities, to make it an even more powerful tool. This is a major milestone, but it’s part of a much bigger roadmap; we’re continuing to invest in automation, AI and tools that make every part of Grant Thornton sharper and faster.”
Mike Kempe, Chief Information Officer, Grant Thornton Advisors
