Regulatory Consulting at Baker Tilly (Gov Advisory)

Overview

Baker Tilly is a top-10 global advisory, tax, and assurance network (part of Baker Tilly International, ~$6.8 billion in 2025 revenue, 50,400+ employees) with a substantial U.S. public-sector advisory practice — more than 420 specialized professionals serving governments, school districts, utilities, and special districts. The firm’s AI work spans two connected tracks: applying AI to its own assurance and advisory delivery, and advising clients (including government and insurance clients) on AI governance and regulatory compliance. In May 2026, Baker Tilly expanded its collaboration with Fieldguide, an agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms, across its risk-advisory services — explicitly maintaining a ‘human in the loop’ approach to preserve professional oversight even as AI automates more of the audit workflow. The firm also runs ‘Innovember,’ a recurring firm-wide educational series demystifying AI and providing sector-specific implementation guidance.

AI-Focused Regulatory Work

Baker Tilly’s most distinctive AI-policy contribution is its detailed tracking of the fast-emerging state regulatory patchwork governing AI in insurance — a sector where algorithmic decisions on underwriting and claims carry direct consumer-protection stakes. Its analysis documents that at least 17 states introduced or advanced AI-related insurance bills in 2025 alone: Colorado’s SB 24-205 (the Colorado AI Act) requires consumer disclosure, bias prevention, and board-approved risk-management policies for ‘high risk’ AI uses like underwriting and claims, taking effect February 1, 2026; Virginia’s HB 2094 closely mirrors it; Connecticut introduced legislation restricting insurers from using AI to automatically deny healthcare claims, triggered directly by a ProPublica investigation into automated claim denials; and Pennsylvania’s proposed HB 1663 would require health insurers to publicly disclose and define the AI tools used in claim decisions. That granular, state-by-state regulatory tracking is paired with Baker Tilly’s own operational AI adoption — its May 2026 expansion of the Fieldguide agentic-AI platform across System and Organization Controls (SOC) engagements shows how audit firms are automating their own governance work while simultaneously advising clients on theirs. The firm’s public-sector AI guidance extends this dual expertise directly to government clients, and its ‘AI in Government: Opportunities, Risks and Real-World Impact’ resource applies the same governance rigor to agencies navigating modernization. For a directory reader, Baker Tilly is most valuable as a source of concrete, state-specific AI regulatory tracking in the heavily regulated insurance sector — a niche few other firms in this directory cover with comparable detail.

Notable AI Policy Work

• Published ‘The Regulatory Implications of AI and ML for the Insurance Industry,’ tracking state-specific AI insurance laws — Colorado’s SB 24-205 (effective Feb 1, 2026), Virginia’s HB 2094, Connecticut’s claims-denial restrictions, and Pennsylvania’s proposed disclosure bill — with 17+ states advancing AI insurance bills in 2025.
• Expanded its collaboration with Fieldguide, an agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms, across risk-advisory services (May 2026), maintaining a ‘human in the loop’ approach across System and Organization Controls (SOC) engagements.
• Runs ‘Innovember,’ a recurring firm-wide series demystifying AI and providing sector-specific implementation guidance across government, healthcare, and insurance clients.
• Publishes ‘AI in Government: Opportunities, Risks and Real-World Impact,’ applying its audit and governance expertise directly to public-sector AI modernization.
• Maintains a 420+ professional public-sector advisory practice serving governments, school districts, utilities, and special districts, plus healthcare AI-readiness and governance guidance for health plans and insurers.

Thought Leadership

1. The Regulatory Implications of AI and ML for the Insurance Industry
   Detailed state-by-state tracking of 2025–26 AI insurance regulation — Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania — covering disclosure, bias prevention, and claims-denial restrictions.
2. AI in Government: Opportunities, Risks and Real-World Impact
   Baker Tilly’s public-sector AI guidance, paired with its ‘Innovember’ educational series on responsible, strategic AI adoption.
3. Baker Tilly Advances AI-Enabled Assurance and Advisory Delivery with Fieldguide (May 2026)
   Details the expanded agentic-AI audit platform collaboration, with a ‘human in the loop’ approach preserving professional oversight.
4. Artificial Intelligence Consulting Services
   Baker Tilly’s AI consulting practice spanning strategy, use-case discovery, implementation, governance, and internal-audit assessment of AI controls.

Clients

State and local governments, school districts, utilities, and special districts (420+ dedicated public-sector professionals); health plans, insurers, and healthcare organizations navigating AI governance and state regulation. Part of Baker Tilly International (~$6.8B 2025 revenue, 50,400+ employees globally).