The Opportunity
ParaLeagle is an AI-powered immigration legal technology platform that automates employment-based visa processing for IT staffing companies, enterprises, and immigration attorneys. We've built a working MVP that handles the complete H-1B workflow — automated LCA form filling (47+ fields), AI-driven SOC code determination, GPT-4 Vision OCR with 95%+ accuracy, and attorney-in-the-loop review for every petition.
We are actively building our full employment-based visa roadmap in collaboration with the Law Offices of Mary Kennedy, an immigration law firm specializing in IT staffing clients. Because Mary owns and operates a practicing immigration firm, we've built our platform by following actual law firm workflows — not theoretical automation. This gives us a deep, practitioner-validated understanding of how petitions actually move from intake through filing, and that foundation extends across every visa category we're developing.
ParaLeagle was founded by people who live and breathe immigration — not technologists who discovered the space last year. CEO and Co-Founder Mathew Kizhakkadathu is also Co-Founder of New Roots EB5 Fund, where he works directly within the EB5 immigration system, partners with immigration attorneys across the country, and has built deep operational expertise in USCIS processes, compliance requirements, and the realities of immigration adjudication. This isn't a technology company that bolted on an immigration use case — it's an immigration company that built the right technology.
Mary Kennedy is Mathew's business partner across both ParaLeagle and New Roots EB5 Fund. Between running her law practice and the fund, Mary can't take on operating another PLLC — but she is actively building our product workflows for employment-based visas, ensuring every feature reflects how petitions are actually prepared, reviewed, and filed in a real immigration practice. Her involvement extends to hiring and training the support staff who will work within your PLLC, ensuring every team member meets the quality standards of a practicing immigration law firm from day one.
Our CTO and Co-Founder JJ brings former Google engineering experience to the technical foundation, combining enterprise-grade infrastructure with the immigration domain expertise that drives every product decision.
The December 2025 court ruling upholding the $100K H-1B employer fee has fundamentally changed the economics of immigration sponsorship. IT staffing companies that were spending $3,000-$5,000 per petition through traditional attorneys are now facing $103,000+ per cap-subject petition. Our platform delivers 60-70% cost savings on attorney fees, and we're positioned at the exact intersection of a market in crisis and a technology solution that's ready to deploy.
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for one of two types of immigration attorneys:
Profile A — The Builder. You have 5-10 years of experience and you've recently launched or are currently building your own practice. You see the future of immigration law moving toward technology, and you want equity in the platform that gets there first rather than spending years grinding out a solo practice from scratch. You bring energy, growth hunger, and a long runway.
Profile B — The Veteran. You're a semi-retired immigration attorney with 15-25+ years of deep employment-based experience. You've built a career, you know H-1B law inside and out, and you're not looking for another 60-hour-a-week commitment — but you're not ready to stop practicing entirely. You want a flexible, high-impact role that leverages your expertise and reputation, gives you meaningful equity upside, and lets you practice at the top of your license without the overhead of running a full firm. You bring gravitas, institutional knowledge, and the kind of credibility with IT staffing clients that takes decades to earn.
Either profile — or the right person who blends elements of both — would be a transformative addition to the team.
What You'll Do
You would operate a dedicated Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC) that serves as the legal practice entity, structured under a Management Services Organization (MSO) agreement with ParaLeagle's C Corp. This is a proven legal tech compliance model — your PLLC maintains full professional independence and ethical obligations, while ParaLeagle provides the technology platform, client acquisition, operations, and all non-legal business functions.
Specifically, you will review every petition processed through the ParaLeagle platform before filing, sign Form G-28 as attorney of record on each petition, provide legal quality assurance and compliance oversight across all visa categories, oversee and guide a trained support team with U.S. employment-based visa experience who handle pre-review quality assurance under your direction, guide product development for expanding visa categories (H-4, H-4 EAD, L-1, O-1, PERM, and EB-1/2/3 are on the roadmap), serve as the face of legal credibility with IT staffing companies, enterprise HR departments, and employment visa attorneys who use the platform, and help shape legal strategy including expansion into I-9 compliance and the complete employment-based green card lifecycle.
Your authority is absolute. If you're not comfortable with a petition, it doesn't get filed. Period. ParaLeagle's job is to make your review faster and more efficient — never to override your judgment.
Our Target Market
ParaLeagle serves three distinct customer segments. Our primary focus is IT staffing companies — mid-market firms with 50-500 employees processing 20-200 H-1B petitions annually, where the $100K fee and Project Firewall compliance pressures have made cost optimization essential for survival. We also serve enterprise employers — direct HR departments managing their own immigration sponsorship programs who need automation and cost reduction without sacrificing legal oversight. And we serve employment visa attorneys — solo practitioners and small immigration law firms who want to leverage AI-powered automation to scale their practice, reduce processing time, and serve more clients without adding headcount.
Compensation Structure
This is a co-founder role with cash compensation, cost-plus earnings, and equity from day one. Your compensation has three components.
$3,000/month base salary paid by ParaLeagle's C Corp regardless of petition volume. Not drawn from PLLC operations, not contingent on hitting revenue targets. You earn it from the day you start. For Profile B attorneys in particular, this provides a stable income floor that respects the pace of life you've chosen — you're never earning less than $3,000/month regardless of H-1B seasonality or where we are in the growth curve.
Cost-plus 10% on all PLLC operating costs. ParaLeagle covers 100% of the costs to run your PLLC — staffing, malpractice insurance, technology, overhead. On top of covering those costs, you receive an additional 10% of those costs as compensation. As volume grows and the support team scales, those costs grow — and so does your 10%. At 25 petitions per month, your cost-plus adds roughly $210 on top of your base. At 100 petitions per month, it's roughly $515. At 200 petitions per month, it's roughly $800. At 500 petitions per month, it's roughly $1,520. Your income grows automatically as the business grows.
Co-founder equity — a meaningful stake in ParaLeagle, negotiable based on your experience, involvement, and what you bring to the table. This is real co-founder equity — not advisory shares or token options. You will own a piece of a company positioned to become the operating system for employment-based immigration. As we build traction and close our pre-seed round ($250K-$500K, actively applying to funds now), compensation will be revisited and scaled with the business.
What ParaLeagle covers (you never pay for any of this): all support staff operating under your PLLC (India-based team with U.S. immigration law firm experience, hired and trained with Mary Kennedy's direct involvement), your PLLC's malpractice insurance, all technology and platform costs, all client acquisition, sales, and marketing, and all administrative overhead. You bear zero operational cost. Every expense associated with running the PLLC is paid by ParaLeagle — and you earn an additional 10% on top of those covered costs.
What stays in your domain: your independent legal judgment on every petition, final sign-off authority with no exceptions, quality standards for the support team working under your direction, and your G-28 signature as attorney of record.
A note on seasonality: H-1B petition volume is seasonal — cap-subject filings concentrate March through June, extensions and amendments peak September through November, and off-season months (December through February, July through August) are lighter. Approximately 70% of all annual H-1B filings are exempt from the cap — extensions, amendments, transfers, change of status — so volume never goes to zero. During off-season months your time commitment drops to 4-6 hours per week while the $3,000 base keeps your income stable. During peak cap season (March-April) expect 15-22 hours per week. This is not a 40-hour commitment in any month. As volume scales, ParaLeagle adds support staff at our cost to keep your personal hours focused on final legal sign-off and complex cases.
The equity is where the real upside lives. The monthly cash compensation is designed to be fair, stable, and directly tied to business growth. But the wealth creation happens through co-founder equity. At year one revenues of $250K-$400K, your equity holds significant early-stage value. By year two at $600K-$900K, a 15% stake at a conservative 10x revenue multiple is worth $900K-$1.35M. By year three at $1.5M-$2.5M, that same stake is worth $2.25M-$3.75M. And as ParaLeagle expands into the full employment-based visa lifecycle — H-4, L-1, O-1, PERM, EB green cards — year four and beyond could see revenues of $4M-$7.5M, putting your equity value at $6M-$11.25M.
You can maintain your existing practice or other commitments — this is additive, not a replacement. For Profile B attorneys, this means stable income and meaningful equity without rebuilding the overhead, staffing, and administrative burden of a full-service firm. For Profile A attorneys, this is a parallel track with co-founder upside that could far exceed a decade of billable hours.
You practice law. We handle everything else.
Where We Are Today
ParaLeagle has a completed MVP for the full H-1B petition workflow. We are building our complete employment-based visa roadmap in active collaboration with the Law Offices of Mary Kennedy, whose practicing immigration firm ensures every workflow is grounded in real practitioner experience. H-4 and H-4 EAD workflows are in active development as our next product expansion. We are actively applying to pre-seed funds targeting $250K-$500K.
Why This Matters
There is no platform on the market that comprehensively addresses employment-based immigration across IT staffing companies, enterprises, and solo attorneys. Existing solutions either serve attorneys (Docketwise, INSZoom) or large enterprises with bundled legal services (Envoy, Fragomen). ParaLeagle sits in the gap — combining AI automation with full attorney oversight — and the $100K fee has made cost optimization existential for our target market.
When you evaluate this opportunity, consider who you'd be working with. This is not a startup where the founders are learning immigration law as they go. The CEO has years of operational experience inside the immigration system through New Roots EB5 Fund. Mary Kennedy is an active immigration practitioner who is hands-on in building workflows, hiring staff, and validating every feature. The CTO built systems at Google. You would be joining a team that already speaks your language and understands your world — and your role would be to elevate that foundation with your own expertise, judgment, and professional authority.
If you're a Builder — you're looking at the economics of grinding out a solo practice from scratch versus joining a platform that brings you clients, handles all operations, covers your costs, gives you equity, and lets you practice law at the top of your license instead of spending half your time on marketing and administration.
If you're a Veteran — you've spent decades mastering employment-based immigration. Instead of watching from the sidelines as AI transforms the field, you can help shape how this technology develops — with your name, your standards, and your judgment built into the foundation. This is a chance to turn a career of expertise into co-founder equity in a category-defining company, on a schedule that respects the pace of life you've earned.
The attorney who joins us now is joining at the ground floor of what we believe will become the operating system for employment-based immigration.
Who You Are
Must-haves:
- Licensed U.S. immigration attorney in good standing
- Deep experience with H-1B petitions, including initial filings, extensions, amendments, and change of status (F-1 to H-1B, H-4 to H-1B, etc.)
- Broad employment-based immigration knowledge spanning H-4/H-4 EAD, PERM labor certification, and EB green card categories
- Currently own or operate your own immigration law practice (solo or small firm)
- Willingness to establish and operate a new PLLC under an MSO structure with ParalEagle
- Comfortable with an entrepreneurial, equity-based compensation model
Strong preferences:
- Experience serving IT staffing and consulting companies specifically
- Familiarity with IT staffing compliance issues (LCA posting, Public Access Files, site visits, Project Firewall implications)
- AILA membership and active involvement in the immigration law community
- Comfort with legal technology and AI-assisted workflows
