Executive VP & GM of Small Business Group, Intuit
Search every verified Marianna Tessel interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At Intuit's 2022 Investor Day, Marianna Tessel, then serving as Chief Technology Officer, discussed the company's technology strategy and platform capabilities. She stated that Intuit's technology priorities were to delight customers through product and operational excellence, to power vision with platform capabilities, and to accelerate work with a modern development environment. Tessel introduced a concept called the "city map," which she described as reflecting Intuit's architecture and business, helping to organize work and drive accountability. She noted that Intuit was 100% in the cloud, with one million CPU cores running in production at peak, and that developers were six times faster in releasing code to production. Tessel also highlighted Intuit's AI and data infrastructure, stating that the company delivered 58 billion machine learning predictions per day and operated 2 million personalized models in production. She mentioned that Intuit's open-source component Argo was used by over a thousand companies including Google, Alibaba, and Tesla. Tessel said the company's data-integration network connected to 24,000 financial institutions across 41 countries, and that its fintech infrastructure managed approximately $2 trillion in invoices and handled hundreds of billions in small-business payroll. She described Intuit's approach to acquisitions as focusing on acceleration rather than integration, while maintaining architectural integrity.
“Hi everybody — I'm Marianna Tessel, I'm Chief Technology Officer here at Intuit. You heard quite a bit today the word 'platform' so I want to take you through how the platform actually fuels our innovation here at the company.”
“Our technology strategy is driven by our big bets, our true north goals and our bold company goals — it's guided by our strategy of being an AI‑driven expert platform.”
“We declared three technology priorities: to delight our customers through product and operational excellence; to power vision with world‑class Intuit platform capabilities; and to accelerate our work with a modern Intuit development environment.”
“We call a concept the 'city map' — the city map reflects our architecture and our business, it clarifies what we have and what we still need, helps organize our work and drives accountability, and it also accelerates our acquisitions in MailChimp and Credit Karma and others.”
“This is one of the largest data platforms out there — one of the largest money‑movement infrastructures that fuels our portfolio. We run about 60 billion machine‑learning predictions per day and operate the largest virtual expert platform that powers our live experiences.”
“One of our open‑source components, Argo, is so popular that it is used by over a thousand companies including Google, Alibaba, GitHub and Tesla.”
“We are 100% in the cloud — at peak we have one million CPU cores running in production. We're on the most modern infrastructure and our developers are 6x faster in releasing code to production.”
“We deliver AI at scale: 58 billion machine‑learning predictions per day, 730 million AI‑driven interactions per year, and about 2 million personalized models running in production at any given time — we also have over 700 AI patents.”
“Our data‑integration network is best‑in‑class — we connect to 24,000 financial institutions across 41 countries. Because of that platform capability we added more than 50 crypto providers rapidly and this past tax year we handled crypto imports on our platform.”
“Our fintech and money‑movement infrastructure is massive: this year alone about $2 trillion of invoices were managed on our platform; hundreds of billions flowed through small‑business payroll; and loans were originated on QuickBooks — money movement is at the heart of many innovations.”
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