What the work actually involves

You are not doing a client's books. You are running QuickBooks tasks the way a model would be asked to run them, then judging the model's version. A typical unit of work: a prompt describes a small-business scenario — an unreconciled bank feed with duplicate deposits, a vendor bill coded to the wrong expense account, an owner draw booked as payroll — and an AI system produces a sequence of steps, a journal entry, or a narrative reading of a P&L. Your job is to say whether that output is correct, plausible-but-wrong, or wrong in a way that would survive a casual review and cause damage three months later.

Expect a mix of task types: authoring reference workflows in QBO or Desktop and documenting each click and field, writing correction scenarios with a known right answer, grading two model responses head to head, and writing rationales that explain why an answer fails in accounting terms — not "this looks off" but "this reclassifies a liability as income and overstates net profit for the period." Chart of Accounts structure, customer/vendor records, class and location tracking, and the differences between QBO and Desktop behavior all come up regularly.

What the screen looks for

micro1's screening is AI-led and conversational, with follow-ups that go a layer deeper than the first answer. It is built to separate people who have closed books from people who have read about closing books. Expect to be pushed on specifics: how you handle an undeposited funds balance that will not clear, what you do when the bank reconciliation is off by an amount matching a single transaction that was already reconciled last period, how accrual and cash basis reporting change the same P&L. Vagueness reads as inexperience. The other thing screened for is evaluation temperament — whether you can mark a fluent, confident, wrong answer as wrong and articulate the harm, rather than rewarding it for sounding organized.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, contractor engagement, invoiced hourly against logged task time.
  • Largely asynchronous; work is pulled from a queue rather than scheduled in meetings. Some projects run calibration sessions or require a short onboarding call.
  • Volume fluctuates. Many contributors treat this as 5–20 hours a week alongside client work; some weeks the queue is thin.
  • You need your own QuickBooks access — a sandbox, a company file, or an accountant/ProAdvisor account — for at least some task types.
  • Pay in the $90–170/hr band reflects reported rates across finance projects; actual offers vary by task type, seniority, and project budget.