Parley makes immigration simple by helping immigration attorneys draft visa applications without the headache. We built the the O-1A Visa Writer, which integrates into the most common workflows used by immigration firms. Our tool can generate an O-1A petition from a client's evidence, helping simplify the complex visa application that brings some of the world's best talent to the U.S.
Automating visa applications
Title: Parley: Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with work visas + green cards | Y Combinator

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

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



Parley

Founded:2024

Team Size:3

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Philip Smart, Founder

Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with work visas and green cards for immigration lawyers (Parley S24). Used to work on Growth and GenAI @ Linkedin. Drove increases to "Core Four" metrics that we reported to MSFT, 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. We help automate legal drafting for immigration attorneys and other flat-fee lawyers. Previously an engineer at several startups including Porter (YC S20) and Govdash (YC W22).



### Jackson Perry, Founder

Co-Founder of Parley. We want to automate flat-fee legal work, starting with immigration! In a former life, invested at a clean energy PE fund and consulted for Oil & Gas majors and U.S. utilities.



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[### Parley - Making immigration simple](

**Tl;dr:** Parley helps immigration lawyers write visa applications using AI. We integrate directly into a lawyer’s typical workflow so they can start writing with Parley from day 1 and deliver results to their clients faster.  
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Hi everyone, we’re Jackson, Philip, and Ian, and we’re the co-founders of [Parley](



**📚 The Problem**

It’s no secret that the immigration system in the U.S. is broken. Anyone pursuing a work or immigrant visa will tell you about the difficulties of lottery systems, exorbitant fees, and endless paperwork.

At Parley, we believe an important piece to fixing this process is **automating work for immigration firms.** For some visa types, a lawyer or legal writer spends several days writing a single application, learning about the most complex and technical professions, collating hundreds of pages of evidence, and synthesizing it all into a cohesive petition. Meanwhile, an applicant eagerly waits for their opportunity. By helping lawyers work better on a daily basis, we hope to accelerate Parley’s speed to impact — reducing the complexity of immigration.

**✍️ The Solution**

Parley makes immigration processes easier. Our 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, our 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. We do this all directly in Microsoft Word — where most attorneys spend their time writing. We’re quickly expanding support for more visa types like the H-1B, TN, EB-1, EB-2 NIW, L-1, and more.



**Asks:**

*   Want to use the product? **Book a demo **[**here**](
*   **Been through a visa process?** Reach out to us and tell us about your journey at [founders@parley.so](mailto:founders@parley.so) - we’d love to talk!
*   **Like what we’re building?** Share this post! Spread the word to help us build toward the vision of making immigration simple.
