$50-$140/hr accounting and finance work, on your schedule
You review AI-drafted tax positions, reconciliations, and close workflows the way you'd review a junior's work, flagging what's wrong and defending what's right. A few hours a week, remote, paid hourly.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a senior auditor's eye on a SOX walkthrough spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Accounting questions
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Narrow specializations are often the most valuable. Models fail most at the edges of tax law where sub-specialty judgment matters, like multi-state apportionment or IRC 482 arm's-length standards. Your depth is exactly what makes your evaluations credible.
An inactive or retired CPA license is fine for most tasks. You evaluate AI reasoning, not sign returns or attest reports. If a task requires an active license, that will be stated clearly before you accept it.
You evaluate AI content for accuracy and reasoning, not issue professional opinions or sign client deliverables. Nothing you do here is tax advice or an attest service, so it does not trigger Circular 230 or AICPA SSTS obligations.
Typically AI-drafted technical memos on ASC 740 or ASC 842, model journal entry explanations, responses to hypothetical audit inquiries, or consolidation walkthroughs. You may also write a worked example showing how you'd reason through an issue like R and D credit qualification under IRC 41.
Yes. EAs are valuable for IRS procedure and controversy, CMAs for cost accounting and FP and A, CIAs for control framework work tied to COSO or IIA. Your credential is verified and matched to task types where it is directly relevant.
Why your expertise matters
Today's accounting AI books revenue under ASC 606 without testing the performance obligations, nets a deferred tax asset that should stand alone, and mixes cash and accrual treatment. Catching that takes a practitioner, not the codification. Your corrections teach these tools the difference between citing a standard and closing the books.
How pay works
Top of the $50-$140/hr band goes to Big Four audit backgrounds, dual CPA/EA credentials, or SEC reporting depth. All work is remote and asynchronous, a few hours a week, billed hourly. Pay releases once your submission passes review. No unpaid waiting.
What the work looks like
A sample of the accounting and finance work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-drafted journal entry package for a software subscription and flag any ASC 606 performance obligation timing error.
- Evaluate a model's tax provision memo for a multinational and find the errors in its ASC 740 valuation allowance analysis.
- Annotate a model's explanation of the five-step revenue recognition model, marking statements that would mislead a real preparer.
- Build a worked ASC 842 right-of-use asset calculation for an operating lease with incentives, so a model can learn the correct logic.
- Compare two AI audit risk assessments for a manufacturer and score whether each control deficiency is properly classified.
- Write adversarial prompts that probe whether a model separates a temporary from a permanent difference when explaining deferred taxes.
Specialties we match
Accounting projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Financial statement analysis
- ASC 606 revenue recognition
- ASC 842 lease accounting
- US GAAP technical accounting
- IFRS
- Tax provision (ASC 740)
- SEC reporting and 10-K/10-Q preparation
- Internal controls and SOX compliance
- Consolidation and intercompany elimination
- Cost accounting and variance analysis
- Audit and assurance methodology
- Transfer pricing
