The firm keeps the relationship. We do the close.
Outsourced bookkeeping for an accounting firm works like this: you keep the client and the final review, and the monthly production is done under your brand. Autonomi Books does that production. A licensed CPA reviews every package before you do.
This is a firm offer. A business owner looking for someone to catch up their own books should start at catch-up bookkeeping with a tax deadline, not here. Firms start at For CPA Firms.
What moves, and what stays
What moves: categorization, reconciliations, and the monthly statements, prepared to your chart of accounts and your formats.
What stays: the client relationship, the fee you charge, and the partner review before anything goes out. The client should not be able to tell a second firm touched the file. If they can, the arrangement is not white-label.
A Pilot Client is how you check that on one file before you move a book. It is a real monthly package, at no cost, under your brand. How to pick a Pilot Client is the short version of which file to send. Do not send a file that is two years behind. That file is a cleanup, and it starts with a $499 diagnostic at bookkeeping cleanup for CPA firms.
What this is not
It is not offshore staff sitting in your process. Outsourced bookkeeping versus offshore staff is that comparison.
It is not extra heads you still have to manage hour by hour. White-label versus staff augmentation covers the difference: delivery is a finished package, not another person in the queue.
It is not a reason to hide the scope from yourself. Read what CPA firms actually get before you tell a client the books will simply "be handled."
How a firm starts
Pick one current monthly client. Start a Pilot Client. Read the package the way you would read a staff close: tie-out, exceptions, and whether your review is a sign-off or a rebuild.
Start a Pilot Client when that file is ready.