Questions and answers

Yes, permanently. Creating a profile is free, applying is free, being verified is free, and receiving a message from an employer is free. There is no stage at which we ask an accountant for money.

US firms pay us for hiring access. That is the entire business. If anyone ever asks you for money to join, to be verified, or to be introduced to a firm, it is not us.

No. Not a percentage, not a finder's fee, not a monthly cut. You and the employer agree compensation directly and every rupee of it is yours, for as long as you work there.

This is the difference between this and an offshore staffing arrangement, where a monthly seat rate is charged for as long as you work for the client and only part of it reaches you.

No, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. There is no job waiting for you today. We are building the employer side of the network, and joining now means you have a profile ready and are visible as US firms begin taking part.

What it does get you: your feedback shaping what gets built, a place in the Work Proof pilots when they open, and one honest email a month about where things stand, including the months when there is no news.

This is the case the privacy model was designed for. Your profile is not published publicly and it is not indexed by search engines: that setting is off by default and you turn it on, not us.

Only verified firms can see profiles at all, and what they see does not include your full name, your photograph or your contact details. Your employment history appears without identifying your current employer. Nobody browsing can work out who you are, and nothing reaches a firm until you agree to it.

By default: your role and years of experience, your region rather than your exact address, your software and the depth you claim in each, your industry and US exposure, your availability and hours of overlap, your compensation expectation, and which checks you have completed with the date of each.

Not public by default: your photograph (off unless you turn it on), your full name, your email, your phone number and your LinkedIn. Search-engine indexing is also off by default.

This is enforced on the server, in lib/authz, not by hiding fields in a page. A firm that is not entitled to a field does not receive it at all.

Evidence of how you approach accounting work, rather than a description of jobs you have held. The intended set is anonymised work samples, synthetic bookkeeping exercises, reconciliation and month-end-close scenarios, and reporting or spreadsheet tasks.

What exists today is narrower: a written account of a real problem you solved, and a ten-question exam on US tax and accounting. Both are marked by a person. The exercises and work samples are still being built, and assessment results are not yet displayed on profiles.

No. Never upload anything that identifies a client or contains their information: not a real trial balance, not a real return, not a screenshot with a client name in the corner. It would breach your obligations to them and it is not what this is for.

Work Proof is built around synthetic and anonymised data for exactly this reason. Where you want to describe real work, describe the problem and what you did about it without the identifying detail. Anything containing client-identifiable information will be rejected.

They are not built yet, and no profile carries one today. This is the plan rather than a description of something live.

The intent is that you ask a former colleague, manager or client to verify one specific capability they actually saw: that they worked with you on month-end close, that they can confirm your QuickBooks work, that they managed you in a client-facing role. A named person confirming one particular thing, rather than a one-click endorsement from someone who never worked with you.

No. It is the single strongest signal to the firms we talk to, and it is not a requirement. Fundamentals are the hard part and US tax software is learnable.

If you have not worked US files, be accurate about it rather than stretching the description. The checks and the evidence are the whole product, and a claim that does not survive an interview costs you more here than an honest gap would.

No. The application does not require any specific qualification, and no part of the product ranks you on one. CAs, CA Inter and finalists, CMAs, ACCAs, M.Coms, and accountants qualified by experience are all in scope.

What matters is what you can show: the software you actually work in, the work you have actually done, and your written English.

On relevance to what the firm is looking for: skills, software, experience, availability and hours of overlap, the evidence on your profile, and how recently you confirmed that it is still accurate.

Not on posting frequency, not on follower counts, and not on payment. Keeping your confirmations current is the one thing genuinely within your control, which is why the profile asks you to reconfirm availability rather than letting it quietly age.

Yes, from your profile settings. It is shown by default, because firms filter on it and a profile without it gets passed over more often, but it is your call and you can turn it off.

Hiding it does not remove it from the application: we still use it to decide which roles are worth putting in front of you.

No. Pro is not available and is not being sold, and if it ever ships it will be presentation and insight tools: analytics, exports, a custom profile address.

Ranking is not for sale here, to anyone, at any price. A network where the top results are whoever paid the most is not worth a firm's time, which means it is not worth yours either.

Through us first, never directly. A firm that wants to talk to you requests an introduction against your profile. We ask you, and nothing about you reaches them unless you agree.

Being exact about how that works today: the request is recorded in the system, but we come to you by email to ask rather than through a button in your dashboard, because the accept-or-decline control is still being built. Either way, the answer is yours and a firm cannot reach you without it.

Once you accept, they get your contact details and you deal with each other directly. You interview, you negotiate your own salary, and they pay you.

Yes, both, at any time and without asking anyone. From your dashboard you can pause your profile, which takes it out of view for firms while keeping everything you have built, or delete it outright.

There is no exclusivity, no notice period and no lock-in. Use us alongside anything else you are doing.

No. We are not your employer and we are not a party to any agreement between you and a firm. You contract with the firm directly, on terms the two of you agree.

How you should handle tax and compliance on what you earn depends on your circumstances and is a question for your own advisor. We cannot advise you on it.

We use it to build your profile and to show relevant firms that you exist. We do not sell it, and we do not pass it to anyone outside the platform without your agreement.

Your contact details are released only when you agree to an introduction. You can ask us to delete everything we hold about you at any time, and we will.