Now open in Canada
A dedicated offshore accountant or bookkeeper for your CPA firm. CRA-trained, working only for you, inside your systems like any team member. Try it for 30 days before committing.
Since 2016
Building offshore teams
100+
Accountancy firms served globally
30-Day trial
Decide after, not before
The Canadian reality
CPA Canada is raising the alarm. Salaries are up, talent is down, and tax season doesn't wait.
The old playbook is running out.
90%
of Canadian accounting hiring managers report talent challenges.
+8%
year-on-year jump in CPA salaries across Canada.
75%
of Canadian businesses now outsource professional services.
Here's what most firms are doing instead. Senior partners are eating compliance work that should have been delegated years ago. Bookkeepers are running themselves into the ground through T1 season. Owners are turning down good clients because they have nowhere to put the work.
That isn't a hiring problem. That's a structural one. iO exists to fix it. #hamster 🐹
The 30-day trial
Most outsourcing pitches ask you to commit 12 months upfront and trust the slide deck.
This isn't that. Read what's included, then decide.
Two weeks of CRA compliance, your software, GDPR-equivalent data handling, and your firm's specific workflows.
We shortlist two or three people for you. You interview, you choose. Their background and qualifications are verified before they get to you.
Forty hours a week working only for your firm, in your software, on your schedule. Not split across multiple clients.
We handle the office, the equipment, the contract, the HR. You just work with the person.
The honest bits: The CA$1,000 is non-refundable because it covers real work (recruitment, training, infrastructure setup). After day sixty you continue at our standard monthly rate or you walk away. There's no penalty either way. We'll talk you through the standard rate on the discovery call so you can do the math before you commit.
01
Thirty minutes. We talk through your firm, your software stack, your busy season patterns, what kind of person would actually be a good fit. No pitch deck.
02
If we're a fit for each other, we shortlist candidates. You meet them, ask the questions you'd ask any new hire, and pick the one who feels right.
03
Your person trains in iO Academy, then starts. You give them work, see how they handle it, give feedback, build the working relationship. Real workload, real results.
04
At day sixty you decide whether to continue at our standard monthly rate or walk away. No multi-year contract, no penalty, no awkward conversation. Just a clean choice.
Discovery call first. The trial starts after we agree it's a fit on both sides.
THE iO MODEL
We don't do your accounting. We give you an accountant. The model is simple, the difference is in the discipline behind it.
Step 1
Your clients, your standards, your software. QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage 50, CaseWare, TaxCycle, ProFile. Whatever your stack looks like.
Step 2
Recruitment, iO Academy training, CIPD-trained HR, Subic Bay office, equipment, IT security, payroll. Everything that isn't accounting.
Step 3
Sole focus on your firm. Working your hours. Trained on Canadian tax compliance and your specific processes. A real colleague, just based abroad.
We'll work it out together on the discovery call. Most firms start with whichever role is causing the most pain.
Partner stories
We're new to Canada, so no local testimonials yet. What we bring is 10 years of proven results with UK firms. Try it for 30 days and see if it works for you.
"Within a month it felt like our offshore accountant had been part of the team for years. The quality of work is excellent, and I finally have time to focus on growing the practice rather than doing it."
Philip Knight
Verve Accounting
"I was sceptical, how could someone overseas understand our clients? After iO Academy training and a few weeks on our systems, I genuinely forget the distance. It simply works."
Olivia Ney
Belfast Bookkeeping
"Offshoring with iO continues to be crucial to the operations of our business. We have become more and more reliant on our growing team there, because they continue to deliver quality and prompt work."
Paul Barnes
MAP
The first Canadian firms to come on board with us will get our full attention, direct access to the founder, and a permanent place on our case study page when we publish them. The 30-day trial is built for exactly this kind of partner.
Our story
Founded in 2016 to fix offshoring quality. We handle compliance so you can focus on growth.
FOUNDER · iO GLOBAL
Practising UK accountant. Founded iO in 2016 to solve his own firm's capacity problem the right way. Author of The Firm You Want, the playbook for practice owners who want to grow without burning out.
CANADIAN PARTNER · iO CANADA
Nikolai's Canadian partner, leading iO Canada from the ground up. Louie is the person you'll be on the discovery call with. Same accountant-to-accountant honesty Nikolai built the company on, applied to the Canadian market.
You'll talk to LouieReady to start?
Tell us a bit about your firm and Louie will be in touch within one business day to set up the call.
No pitch deck, no hard sell.
Canadian Partner
"I won't waste your time with a generic pitch. The discovery call is a conversation. I want to understand your firm, where the pressure is coming from, and whether what we've built actually fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you straight."
