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AI agents — not people — are becoming the primary users of business software. Gartner projects that by 2030 this shift puts a fifth of enterprise application spending in motion. Blackspark builds for that inversion, in one of the markets least prepared for it: Canadian tax. Our platform, Armada T1, is agent-ready infrastructure for Canadian T1 workflows. It exposes clients, tax files, sections, required fields, validation rules, tasks, review states, and filing handoff capabilities through APIs and MCP tools — so AI agents can gather taxpayer information, create structured tax records with document-level provenance, flag gaps as follow-up tasks, prepare reviewer-ready summaries, and hand off to the tax preparation and practice management software a firm already runs. The design principle throughout: agents operate, Armada governs. Every write is validated against the Canadian tax data model. Every record traces to its source document. Every action is permission-scoped and audit-logged. That governance layer is what makes agent-built tax files reviewable, defensible, and safe. We work with Canadian accounting firms, consultants, MSPs, and automation teams implementing AI in tax practices. Blackspark is based in Toronto, founded by a team that has built enterprise infrastructure through a platform shift before — including Epoch Integration, acquired by BlackBerry — alongside Big 4-trained Canadian tax leadership. Note: Blackspark no longer offers consumer tax preparation services. Request access at blacksparkcorp.com.