Avalara launches Aviator for tax agents

Avalara launched Aviator, an agent hub for tax and compliance workflows built on more than 22 years of closed-loop compliance data, with initial access for existing customers at no extra cost, according to the launch announcement. Avi can draft rules, simulate impacts on past transactions, flag conflicts, and wait for customer approval; general availability follows next month’s CRUSH Europe event. For finance teams, adjacent orchestration plus an audit trail is more useful than generic autonomy, so pilot against existing tax data and approval controls before adding another agent layer, as our agent-history cost analysis argues.