Managed Automation Service Provider
At Automata Practice Development, we specialize in integrating applications within accounting practices, driving efficiency and innovation through business process automation. Our tailored strategies enhance the accuracy, speed, and overall client satisfaction of your firm. By adopting a hands-on, collaborative approach, we work closely with your team to identify key areas for automation, implement scalable solutions, and ensure that your firm remains competitive in today’s ever-evolving technology landscape.
Mission Statement
Our Vision
Create a world of Automation
Our Mission
Building a methodology to make automation accessible to everyone
Our Purpose
Reduce stress by providing resources and education to clients to improve their efficiency using automation technology
Library of Integrations
Our expertise lies in developing specialized automation projects to address specific workflow inefficiencies and pain points in your firm. We design, build, test, and deploy automations tailored to your needs, utilizing a custom programmed library of integrations that seamlessly interface with various web applications. This library accelerates the development process, offering flexible, scalable automation solutions for your firm. Additionally, our library is continuously updated, ensuring the latest automation capabilities are available.
Our Name
Automata is the plural for automaton which is a robot, machine, or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a predetermined sequence of operations and is relatively self-operating. Like our name, we want to help your practice by assisting and developing robots to make the accountants' lives easier.
Mini Automation
Mini Automations are available off the shelf to be purchased and downloaded. They are included with our Managed Services but can be purchase separately on a per automation basis. These automations are design to handle specific pain points that accountants face.
Who We Are
Automata Practice Development focuses on creating automated solutions specifically for the accounting industry. With over eight years of experience in this field, we have a deep understanding of accounting and tax processes, making us uniquely equipped to develop automation solutions that truly meet the needs of accounting professionals.
Expert U.S.-Based Team for Efficient Automation
Our U.S.-based project managers and automation engineers know the right questions to ask to identify pain points in your processes and apply automations effectively, relieving you of repetitive tasks and enhancing overall productivity.
Additionally, since our team is U.S. based, there is no need to have a 7216 on file for your client.
Our Founder
Wesley Hartman, the founder of Automata Practice Development, has been at the forefront of IT innovation since 2005 and has been working in IT for accounting since 2009. At the accounting firm, he pioneered a robotic process automation (RPA) platform in 2014, starting with an automation that inputs K-1 data from spreadsheets into tax software. Since then, he has expanded the platform to include data mining, custom emailing, invoicing, and decision-making solutions.
Industry Speaker and Expert on Emerging Technologies
Wesley frequently speaks at industry conferences, including AICPA Engage, sharing his expertise on implementing emerging technologies and improving efficiency within accounting firms. With a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and experience in autonomous vehicle projects, automation is second nature to him.
Personal Passions Beyond Automation
Beyond his work, Wesley is passionate about martial arts, furniture building, and organizing Halloween haunted mazes in his driveway. Feel free to reach out to him at whartman@automatapracdev.com.
Head of Growth & Partnerships
Harrison Miller is the Head of Growth & Partnerships at Automata Practice Development, where he helps accounting firms modernize their operations through automation and AI‑driven process design.
Harrison started his career in public accounting, spending five years in audit working with complex organizations and seeing firsthand how much time firms lose to manual, repetitive workflows. That experience sparked his interest in technology, efficiency, and the future of accounting operations.
Before Automata
Before joining Automata, Harrison worked directly with firm leaders to understand their bottlenecks, capacity challenges, and technology gaps. His background gives him a practical, ground‑level view of how firms actually work and how the right automation strategy can free teams to focus on higher‑value work.
Area of Focus
At Automata, Harrison leads growth initiatives, strategic partnerships, and industry education efforts. He’s focused on helping firms adopt tools that reduce administrative burden, improve accuracy, and create scalable, modernized practices.
Based in New York City, Harrison is passionate about helping firms work smarter, not harder. Feel free to reach out to him at hmiller@automatapracdev.com.
Director of Solutions & Delivery
Russell is a Certified Public Accountant and software engineer, one of the few people who can read a balance sheet, prepare a tax return, and write the code to automate it. At Automata, he leads the solutions team, bridging the gap between accounting expertise and the technology that powers it, while also contributing significantly to the day-to-day operations that keep the company running efficiently. He is a member of the AICPA, NYCPA, the NYCPA Technology Committee, and has deep expertise across multiple disciplines of software development.
Before Automata
Before coming onboard, Russell spent over a decade at public CPA firms, with the bulk of that time working at a boutique firm in Manhattan focused on the tax accounting needs of High-Net-Worth Individuals. He always had a passion for technology, and in 2020 recognized a gap between what accounting software promised and what it actually delivered so he decided to do something about it. After years of sharpening his development skills, grinding through algorithms, and building his first tax tool from scratch, he made the move into tech full time. He still works with a select group of tax clients each season, keeping one foot in the field that continues to inspire his best ideas.
Beyond Automation
Russell earned his bachelor’s and master's degree in accounting from Binghamton University. Originally from Canada and upstate New York, he now lives in New York City. Outside of work, he enjoys exercise, sports, spending time with family and friends, being outside in nature, anime, board games, and food.
Feel free to reach out to him at rmonteith@automatapracdev.com.
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