Cognition describes how accounting firm Basis uses its Devin AI agent
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Cognition says Basis, a company building AI agents for accounting, works with its Devin cloud agent to build and test software.
Cognition's post says the best engineering teams use cloud agents to build, test and verify work end to end, and cites Basis as an example. Cognition says Basis's agents cut 20-hour accounting tasks to 30 minutes. The post describes Basis's workflow with Devin, including agent threads that run 20 days, but the reports do not give further detail on that workflow or independent results.
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Cognition@cognitionOfficialCognition describes how Basis works with Devin on agent-built accounting toolsAICognition says the best engineering teams use cloud agents to build, test, and verify work end to end. It highlights Basis, which builds AI agents that cut 20-hour accounting tasks to 30 minutes, and describes how the company works with Devin.

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