About
Built for CPA firms, not for everyone
One Team Works is an India-based delivery centre that prepares estate and trust returns for U.S. accounting firms. That narrowness is the point: we are not a general outsourcing company that also happens to take fiduciary work.
Why we exist
U.S. firms are turning away work they are qualified to do because they cannot staff it. Meanwhile the preparation layer of that work — the sorting, the tie-outs, the schedules — is genuinely portable, provided the person doing it understands U.S. tax rather than merely following a checklist.
That proviso is where most offshore arrangements fail, and it is what we organised the firm around.
How we are different from a staffing agency
A staffing agency sends you hours. We send you finished work with the reasoning attached. The people assigned to your firm stay with your firm, learn your templates and review standards, and are backed by a second reviewer before anything reaches you.
Where the technology fits
We use AI where it is genuinely good — reading documents, sorting them, and pulling figures with a page reference for each one. We do not use it to make judgment calls or to do arithmetic. Those are handled by people and by tested code respectively, because both need to give the same answer every time and be explainable afterwards.
It is an unglamorous division of labour, and it is the reason our workpapers survive review.
Working with us
Most relationships start with a single trust return. That is deliberate. You should be able to judge the work before you reorganise anything around it.
Ready to extend your team?
Send one return and see the workpapers before you commit to anything.