$70-$170/hr forensic accounting and investigation work, on your schedule
You review AI fraud analysis and investigative findings the way you'd review an examiner's report, flagging the explained-away anomaly and the missing audit trail. 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 forensic accountant's eye on a transaction that doesn't add up 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.
Forensic Accounting questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Your CFE qualifies on its own. Demand is evaluated by subject-matter expertise, so CFEs, CFFs, CIRAs, and CVAs are all in scope depending on the task. Audit or attest concepts within CPA scope route to CPAs, but fraud examination, asset tracing, and statement manipulation are open to CFEs.
Insurance fraud and SIU is a distinct sub-specialty AI developers want to improve, because the documents and investigative logic differ from corporate fraud. You'd review analyses of staged-loss scenarios, billing anomalies, or comp fraud indicators, flagging errors a generalist model misses.
No. You evaluate AI content for accuracy and reasoning, not form or sign opinions in any proceeding. You act as a subject-matter evaluator, not an expert witness, so the independence requirements and Daubert standards governing testimony do not apply to what you produce here.
Synthetic or sanitized versions of field staples: general ledger extracts, bank reconciliations, chart-of-accounts structures, journal entry populations, intercompany schedules, and damages cash-flow models. You assess whether a model correctly applies Benford's Law, round-number testing, or related-party identification, not real client files.
Sessions are tool-agnostic. You evaluate the analytical reasoning in AI outputs, not run queries, so your IDEA or Alteryx background helps you judge whether a model's approach to exception testing or duplicate-payment detection is sound. Familiarity with any major forensic data-analytics platform transfers directly.
Why your expertise matters
Today's forensic AI misreads transaction layering, calls a routine intercompany transfer a fraud flag, and skips the chain-of-custody reasoning that makes a finding admissible. Catching that takes an examiner, not a pattern matcher. Your corrections teach these tools the difference between a plausible narrative and one that survives cross-examination.
How pay works
Top of the $70-$170/hr band goes to active CFEs, CPAs with litigation support experience, or Big Four forensic and federal law enforcement backgrounds. All work is remote, a few hours a week, logged hourly. Pay releases after your deliverable meets spec. Incomplete or unverifiable work isn't paid.
What the work looks like
A sample of the forensic accounting and investigation work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review a model's fraud risk assessment for a mid-size manufacturer and flag misclassified transactions, unsupported inferences, or conclusions that fail Daubert.
- Evaluate a model's narrative of a layered wire scheme and correct how it describes correspondent banking and shell entities obscuring beneficial ownership.
- Build a worked bank statement reconstruction from fragmented records, annotating each inferential step the way you would in an engagement workpaper.
- Assess whether an AI response to a hypothetical FCPA scenario separates the accounting provisions from the bribery provisions, and rewrite where it blends them.
- Score a model's interrogatory questions for a securities fraud matter on relevance and whether they'd surface the documentation needed to establish scienter.
- Draft a reference example calculating lost profits under the before-and-after method, including the assumptions disclosed and the sources courts accept.
Specialties we match
Forensic Accounting projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Fraud examination (CFE)
- Litigation support and expert witness preparation
- Financial statement fraud detection
- Asset tracing and hidden asset recovery
- Anti-money laundering (AML) transaction analysis
- Damages quantification
- eDiscovery and digital forensics integration
- Business valuation in dispute contexts
- FCPA and OFAC compliance investigations
- Bankruptcy and insolvency analysis
- Embezzlement and occupational fraud schemes
- Reconstruction of incomplete or manipulated records
