Crowe Launches Crowe Studio to Disrupt Legacy Professional Services Model and Build What's Next for Clients

With a global, platform-ready delivery model and AI at its core, the new unit helps Crowe and its clients modernize faster and compete more effectively in a changing economy

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowe LLP, a leading public accounting and consulting firm, today announced the launch of Crowe Studio, a new business unit dedicated to helping clients scale smarter, transform faster, and lead in a platform-driven economy. Crowe Studio is designed to develop, launch, and scale high-impact solutions within new, global business models, powered by AI capabilities. It's a venture-style approach to building AI-native, outcome-focused businesses and solutions that address the evolving needs of CFOs, CIOs, and other business leaders.

Built for speed and flexibility, Crowe Studio is designed to operate outside the constraints of traditional professional services delivery models. It gives clients access to cross-disciplinary innovation, embedded AI capabilities, and global delivery resources—all in service of solving complex business challenges in faster, smarter ways. Through Crowe Studio the firm provides clients with an innovation partner focused on rapid execution, deep technology integration, and high-impact results. It's building the next generation of business models for professional services, where human expertise and AI are embedded within clients' operations to drive ongoing impact, not just deliver isolated projects.

"Our clients are under pressure to transform—not incrementally, but fundamentally," said Steven Strammello, Crowe LLP CEO. "Crowe Studio is our answer to that challenge. It enables us to work alongside our clients to deliver platform-native, tech-powered solutions that go beyond advice. We're helping our clients move with urgency, unlock efficiency, and scale with confidence in a rapidly changing market."

Crowe Studio will debut with three flagship offerings:

• Crowe Y-Hire – A managed hiring model that leverages AI agents and global delivery to help organizations scale knowledge worker capacity without traditional recruitment cycles or fixed headcount models. It provides a flexible, recurring solution to fill critical skill gaps quickly and efficiently.
• Crowe AI Transformation – A full-service offering for organizations looking to design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI initiatives. This solution draws on Crowe's proprietary IP, industry expertise, and strategic technology partnerships to help clients accelerate AI adoption and integration.
• Crowe Tax AI – An AI-native service reshaping how tax functions operate—and how Crowe delivers them. Designed to reduce risk, enable predictive planning, and preserve expert oversight, this offering reflects Crowe's own transformation journey in reimagining tax operations from the inside out.

Crowe Studio's mission is to simplify the path to transformation by offering global, scalable, repeatable solutions that reduce reliance on manual staffing and legacy delivery approaches. Each offering is designed to meet clients where they are and move them toward more agile, tech-enabled operating models that work at a global scale.

"Crowe Studio is built to help clients get out of the pilot trap and into scalable execution," said John Epperson, Managing Principal of Crowe Studio. "We're designing solutions that embed AI, automate intelligently, and create lasting business value. Our goal is to help clients disrupt from within, using our tools to modernize how they work, deliver, and grow without being limited by outdated, legacy business practices."

With Crowe Studio, the firm is advancing its leadership in professional services innovation—redefining what it means to partner with clients in a world driven by AI, automation, and dynamic business models. As part of this commitment, Crowe will continue to grow its technology ecosystem by strengthening partnerships with leading third-party platforms and solution providers. This ensures clients have access to cutting-edge technologies and a vibrant innovation network that accelerates progress on their most critical initiatives.

In addition to its client-facing mission, Crowe Studio will play a critical role in the firm's internal evolution—using its capabilities to build new business models, assess operational risk, scale global delivery, and reimagine how value is created and delivered across the firm.

"Our own firm is not immune to disruption," said Strammello. "The pace of change and the levels of investment we're seeing in our industry will drastically alter what the accounting and consulting profession looks like in just five years. Crowe Studio is our commitment to lead that transformation from the inside out—redefining how we deliver value to both our clients and our people. It also strengthens our position as a destination of choice for top global talent and the technology partners shaping the future of our profession."

Crowe views Crowe Studio as a long-term transformation and self-disruption engine for the firm and the clients it serves, with a growing pipeline of platform-native offerings planned beyond the initial launch. This shift away from hourly billing toward an integrated model allows Crowe to incubate technology-enabled ventures inside client ecosystems. These ventures can mature into strategic assets that either enhance Crowe's existing business portfolio or evolve into standalone entities, paving the way for future transactions and investment opportunities.

For more information on Crowe Studio and its offerings, visit https://www.crowe.com/services/crowe-studio

About Crowe
Crowe LLP is a public accounting and consulting firm that uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit, tax and consulting services to public and private entities. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the best places to work in the U.S. As an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world, Crowe serves clients worldwide. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries.

SOURCE Crowe LLP