Gusto on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/gusto/Recent content in Gusto on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:44:01 +0000AI Roll-Ups: The $5 Trillion Playbook That's Reshaping Private Equityhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-28-founders/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:44:01 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-28-founders/The biggest story today is the AI roll-up thesis: buy traditional services businesses and rebuild them with AI agents to turn 5-10% EBITDA margins into 30-40%. A McKinsey estimate puts $5 trillion of American businesses changing hands by 2035, and one accounting firm example shows AI processing 7,000 tax returns and cutting a 180-hour task to 15. Meanwhile, enterprises are post-training their own open-weight models (Thomson Reuters&rsquo; &ldquo;Thomson&rdquo; beat GPT-5.5 with less than 10% of their content), and Gusto&rsquo;s cofounder says AI has made your revenue worth less to an acquirer and your speed worth more. Plus: n8n launches Agents for open-ended tasks, and a framework for identifying the employees you should never let go.