Inside Paychex’s Data Strategy: Monetizing Insight for AI, Clients, and the U.S. Economy

06/11/2025 33 min

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Episode Synopsis

What if your company’s data could become a public good and a competitive moat?
Beaumont Vance, SVP of Data and AI at Paychex, shares how his team transforms payroll and HR data into real-time economic insight, powering everything from AI copilots to U.S. government response efforts. With 1 in 11 U.S. workers on the platform and 39 million client interactions annually, Paychex treats data as infrastructure.
In this episode, Beaumont and Peter High discuss:

How Paychex monetizes data responsibly
Why statistical precision trumps survey-based signals
Building AI-ready data from unstructured knowledge
Lessons from growth equity on “data moats”
What AI agents will unlock next

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