It can, but not automatically. There is no fixed minimum headcount or revenue for L-1A. The question is whether the proposed US duties are primarily managerial or executive on the facts, and outsourcing shifts that inquiry toward who directs the providers, sets budgets, and decides the organisation's direction.
Describe direction, not seniority
Being the only senior person in a small company is not the test. Show the decisions the applicant makes about which services to buy, on what terms, and to what standard, and show who would perform the work if the contracts ended tomorrow. Where the applicant personally handles customer delivery alongside the vendors, record that share.
A candid split gives counsel something to assess; an overstated one will be tested against the invoices. Three questions usually decide it. What does the applicant approve that nobody else can; who would be accountable if a provider failed; and what part of the delivery does the applicant still perform personally.
Answer them from records rather than from the organisation chart. The classification also requires one continuous year of qualifying employment with the organisation abroad within the three years preceding the filing, in a managerial, executive, or specialized-knowledge capacity, so a founder who ran the company informally still needs that period evidenced. L-1A stays are limited to seven years in total.
A duty description written to fit the category, rather than to describe the week, is the most common weakness in small-company files.