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DataSnipper recognized on Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list for advancing AI-powered audit and finance workflows in Excel 

Each year, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list highlights the organizations shaping the future of business. The list recognizes companies that are redefining industries through bold ideas, measurable impact, and real-world innovation. 

Fast Company recognized 720 honorees across 59 sectors and regions, and DataSnipper has been named No. 2 in in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for 2026, recognizing its role in bringing innovation to the audit and finance industry. 

DataSnipper is the agentic automation platform transforming audit and finance. Powered by AI Agents, DataSnipper helps professionals reduce manual work, accelerate document analysis, and streamline complex workflows while maintaining full transparency and control. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, global enterprises, and all Big Four audit firms, DataSnipper is used by professionals across 175 countries. 

“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies is about spotlighting organizations that don’t just adapt to change—they drive it,” said Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “The companies we honor this year are redefining what leadership looks like in 2026, pairing bold ideas with measurable impact and turning breakthrough innovation into real-world value. They are setting the pace for their industries and offering a blueprint for what sustained innovation can achieve.” 

AI Innovation in audit and finance

At the center of this innovation was the launch of AI Agents, designed to move beyond task-level automation and support end-to-end audit and reporting workflows:  

Excel Agents automates analysis and testing inside Excel. Excel Agents introduces autonomous, prompt-driven insights and decision-making all within the familiar Excel environment.  
Disclosure Agents accelerates complex IFRS and GAAP reviews. Disclosure Agents transforms manual disclosure checklist reviews into guided, smarter workflows.  
 

DataSnipper continued to advance how AI helps audit and finance teams work with unstructured documents across the audit and finance lifecycle:  

AI Extractions turns unstructured documents across languages and formats into analysis-ready data. AI Extractions enables teams to extract and validate data from large volumes of unstructured documents directly in Excel, helping automate high-volume procedures at scale.  

DataSnipper also advanced how audit and finance teams analyze documents at scale:  

DocuMine is an AI-powered document analysis tool that eliminates the tedious task of manually searching through lengthy and complex documents to pinpoint specific information. In 2025, DocuMine was named to TIME’s Best Inventions list in the Artificial Intelligence category, placing DataSnipper among a select group of technologies recognized for best-in-class AI innovation.  

From manual work to agentic workflows

What began as a solution to eliminate repetitive audit work has evolved into a platform used by thousands of audit and finance professionals globally. 

Today, DataSnipper is enabling a shift toward agentic workflows, where AI supports multi-step processes while keeping professionals in control. 

By embedding Agents directly into Excel, teams can move from manual execution to AI-supported review, improving consistency, quality, and efficiency across audit and finance. 

In 2025 alone, DataSnipper generated an estimated $1.4 billion in productivity savings for customers worldwide. 

As complexity and data volumes continue to rise, tools that improve accuracy, efficiency, and transparency are becoming core infrastructure for audit and finance teams. 

Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies: How the list is determined

To determine honorees, Fast Company’s editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world. 

The full list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com.  

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