Parley: Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with work visas + green cards

Parley automates flat-fee legal work using LLMs, starting with visa applications for immigration lawyers. Currently, immigration lawyers spend 20+ hours putting together writing-intensive work visas and green cards. Parley integrates directly into a lawyer's workflow and handles all the reading, writing, and compiling — which is 80% of the work required to file a visa application.

The Problem

The immigration system in the U.S. is broken. Anyone pursuing a work or immigrant visa faces difficulties with lottery systems, exorbitant fees, and endless paperwork.

For some visa types, a lawyer or legal writer spends several days writing a single application, learning about complex and technical professions, collating hundreds of pages of evidence, and synthesizing it all into a cohesive petition. Meanwhile, an applicant waits for their opportunity. By helping lawyers work better on a daily basis, Parley aims to accelerate impact and reduce the complexity of immigration.

The Solution

Parley's first product, the O-1A Writer, helps immigration attorneys speed-write a petition while keeping them in the loop. As a lawyer does the critical thinking in specifying what argument they want to make, the writer dynamically pulls content from an applicant's evidence, fits that material to the context of the application, and automatically drafts a petition for review. The product works directly in Microsoft Word — where most attorneys spend their time writing. Parley is expanding support for more visa types including H-1B, TN, EB-1, EB-2 NIW, L-1, and more.

Founders

Philip Smart, Founder

Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with work visas and green cards for immigration lawyers. Previously worked on Growth and GenAI at LinkedIn, driving increases to core metrics reported to Microsoft. Was PM on the first consumer, massive-scale launch of GPT-4 integrated into a product outside of OpenAI.

Ian Edwards, Founder

Co-founder of Parley. Previously an engineer at several startups including Porter (YC S20) and Govdash (YC W22).

Jackson Perry, Founder

Co-founder of Parley. Previously invested at a clean energy PE fund and consulted for Oil & Gas majors and U.S. utilities.