$55-$140/hr audit and assurance work, on your schedule
You review AI audit procedures, testing, and findings the way you'd review a staff auditor's workpapers, flagging the control that's a paper tiger. 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 an auditor's eye on a control that doesn't actually work 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.
Audit questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Narrow specializations are often the most valuable. Models struggle with the judgment calls inside frameworks like PCAOB AS 2201, COSO 2013, or ITGC scoping, so your concentrated expertise surfaces errors a generalist misses. ASC 606, ASC 842, and ESG assurance specialists are in demand.
You evaluate AI procedures, workpaper narratives, and risk assessments as a reviewer, not issue opinions on real engagements. With no client relationship or attest service involved, the tasks do not trigger independence under ET Section 1.200, but apply your own judgment and your firm's policies if in doubt.
Typically reviewing AI-drafted risk and control matrices, judging sample-selection rationale, critiquing audit program steps for an assertion, and assessing whether a workpaper memo supports its conclusion. You may also build worked examples showing how an experienced auditor documents skepticism.
Yes, internal audit credentials and experience are fully in scope. The work covers the full audit spectrum, including IIA Standards engagements, operational and IT audits, and ERM reviews. CIAs, CISAs, CRMAs, and CFEs in corporate, consulting, or government audit are all eligible.
Both. Some prompts specify a framework and ask whether the model applied it correctly; others give a situation and ask you to identify the governing standard and judge the response. Comfort reading across PCAOB, GAAS, ISA, and IIA helps, though most tasks specify the framework upfront.
Why your expertise matters
Today's audit AI calls a control effective because it's designed, reads a workpaper as supporting a conclusion it doesn't, and takes management's word over the evidence. Catching that takes trained skepticism, not a standards library. Your corrections teach these tools the difference between a design deficiency and an operating failure.
How pay works
Top of the $55-$140/hr band goes to Big Four or national firm backgrounds with CPA or CIA licensure plus a specialty like IT audit, public-company SOX, or financial-services depth. Work is remote, a few hours a week, billed hourly or per task. Pay releases after review. No retainers, no minimums.
What the work looks like
A sample of the audit and assurance work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-drafted internal audit report for a manufacturer and flag findings that lack root-cause analysis or conflate design with operating failures.
- Evaluate a model's SOX walkthrough template and correct where the control objective is misaligned with the risk or design and operating tests blur together.
- Build a worked example documenting a segregation-of-duties exception in accounts payable, including the compensating control assessment.
- Score a model's risk-ranking output for a pre-audit assessment, marking each item accurate, partial, or misleading, with reasoning a model can learn from.
- Draft a calibration scenario where a model must distinguish a material weakness, a significant deficiency, and a control deficiency under AS 2201.
- Assess a model's audit inquiry response and find where it accepted management's word without corroborating evidence, citing the GAAS or IIA standard.
Specialties we match
Audit projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- SOX 404 internal controls
- IT general controls (ITGC)
- SOC 1 / SOC 2 / SOC 3 reporting
- Risk-based audit planning
- Workpaper documentation standards
- GAAS / PCAOB standards
- IIA Standards (IPPF)
- Control deficiency classification
- Fraud risk assessment
- Third-party / vendor risk auditing
- Continuous auditing and data analytics
- Government auditing (Yellow Book / GAGAS)
