A small firm, built for small firms.
tryACOwork exists because US accounting firms have more work than people, and because there are excellent accountants in India who want to do that work properly, for one firm, for years.
Why we started
For nine years I worked alongside US accounting firms from India, and I kept seeing the same thing go wrong. A firm would hire an offshore bookkeeper, get a different person every few months, and quietly give up on the idea.
The work was rarely the problem. The problem was that nobody owned it. Staff were shared across five firms at once, so they never learned how any single firm liked things done.
Then a two-partner firm in Ohio told me they had turned away eleven clients in one year because they could not hire fast enough. That stayed with me. They did not need another vendor. They needed one person who arrived each morning already knowing their clients.
So we built tryACOwork around exactly that. One bookkeeper, one firm, for years. We publish our prices, you meet the person before you commit, and the review always stays yours.
Naveen Gupta, Co-founder
What we believe
- One firm per person.
- A bookkeeper who works for five firms belongs to none of them. Ours work for one, learn how it likes things done, and stay.
- Publish the price.
- If we cannot say what we charge on our own website, something is wrong with the answer.
- Show the person.
- You are hiring a human being. You should meet them before you commit, not after.
- Never take the review.
- Your firm signs the work, so your firm reviews the work. We will never suggest a shortcut around that.
- Say the hard thing early.
- If we are not right for your firm, the honest place to say so is the first call, not month three.
Where we are
We are in New Delhi, India, in our own office. We work early Indian hours so that our mornings overlap your mornings.
You are welcome to see it. Ask on the call and we will walk you around the office on video, or you can visit if you are ever in India.
How we hire
The honest answer to “will the work be any good?” is not a promise, it is a hiring bar and a review step. Here is both.
Before anyone joins us
- A commerce graduate - B.Com or M.Com - who has already worked on US books. We do not train people on your clients.
- Interviewed in English, because they will work in English all day, every day.
- Background verification: identity, address, education and previous employment.
- Reference checks with at least one previous employer.
- A signed confidentiality agreement before they see anything at all.
Once they do
- They are our employee, on our payroll, at a desk in our office. Not a freelancer, and never subcontracted.
- They work for one firm. Not five, which is the reason offshore bookkeeping usually fails.
- A senior team lead reviews their work before it reaches you, and then you review it.
- Ongoing US GAAP and software training, on our time and at our cost.
- We carry their salary, benefits, equipment, leave cover and replacement, so none of it lands on you.
And then you choose. We send two or three profiles, you interview them yourself by video, and if none of them are right we go again at no cost and no obligation. You are hiring a person, so you should be the one who says yes.
We are new. Here is what that costs you, and what it buys you.
You are going to notice we have no client logos and no counter on the home page. We would rather explain that than decorate around it.
What being new buys you
- You will not be client four hundred. When something goes wrong you will be talking to the people who can fix it.
- We have no template to protect, so the process gets built around how your firm already works rather than the other way round.
- We publish our prices, our onboarding timeline and our service commitments, because we have no scale to point at instead. That transparency is not generosity, it is what we have.
- One firm per bookkeeper is a promise we can still keep. It gets harder to keep the bigger a provider gets, which is why most stop keeping it.
What it costs you
- No decade of case studies to read. What we offer instead is twenty hours of real work on your real books, free, which tells you more than a case study would.
- No SOC 2 report. We say exactly what we do and do not hold on our security page rather than implying otherwise.
- If you need a large team at short notice, we are not the right firm yet. We will tell you that on the call, not in month three.
If a long client list is what you need to see before you commit, we are not there yet and we will not pretend to be. If what you need is one person doing your books properly from the first month, that we can do now.
Read what we do and do not claim on the security page, or start with the free 20-hour pilot.
Find out what one bookkeeper would do for your firm.
A 20-minute video call. We will tell you what it costs, how many of your clients one person could carry, and whether we are the right fit - including if we are not.