The opportunity
A vast, high-stakes market that navigates alone.
The US immigration system is overwhelming, expensive, and unforgiving of small mistakes. Most people move through it with no attorney, in a second language, and the existing tools are either a lawyer they cannot afford or a generic guide that does not fit their actual life. The biggest blind spot is the part after the decision: an approval still needs conditions removed and citizenship pursued; a denial opens motions, appeals, and removal defense. The gap is a trustworthy companion that prepares a person end to end, keeps them out of the traps, and hands them to a real attorney when one is needed, all as information, not legal advice.
The wedge
We own the part everyone skips, and we close the loop to a lawyer.
Generic guides explain a single, clean path. Real life is a marriage during a pending asylum case, a denial, a case stuck for years. ImmiReady's wedge is exactly there: an AI companion that synthesizes combined situations into a step-by-step plan, and a Pathways map that keeps going after approval (green card to conditions removal to citizenship) and after denial (motions, appeals, Writ of Mandamus, removal defense). Then it does what a guide cannot: a two-sided attorney marketplace lets the user hire a vetted lawyer, send an engagement request, sign a generated contract, and have documents reviewed, without ever leaving the app. That is where the fear lives, and where no consumer tool helps today.
Why it wins
The moat.
Fru plus AI tools for combined cases
A companion named Fru, plus a suite of AI-powered tools (document evaluation, case prep, mock interview, affidavit and mandamus drafting, contract generation) that take a real, tangled situation and return a clear plan, in plain language, in three languages, always framed as information, never legal advice. Powered by advanced AI. That framing keeps it scalable software, not a law firm.
The traps, tracked
An EAD work-permit monitor with the 180-day window and 540-day auto-extension, a live USCIS case-status check by receipt number, deadline reminders, a case-specific document checklist, and cross-reference detection that flags discrepancies across a case's documents. The product earns trust by preventing the small mistakes that end cases.
The two-sided attorney marketplace
Not a referral list: a marketplace. Immigrants hire vetted attorneys, send engagement requests, and sign generated contracts; attorneys get a dashboard, a client list, client intake, document review, and reviews from clients. ImmiReady sits in the transaction between supply and demand.
TaTech engine
A shared multi-tenant platform, database-enforced privacy, observability, and AI plumbing across a portfolio, so new pathways, languages, AI tools, and features ship fast and cheap.
Traction
Live, private, and trilingual.
- Live at immiready.us, an Expo React Native, mobile-first, offline-capable app, with auth and privacy hardened.
- The full Immigration Pathways map and a library of 34 real-life scenarios shipped, the end-to-end journey including after the decision.
- A live USCIS case-status check (real receipt-number lookup) and the two-sided attorney marketplace are built and in the app.
- English, Spanish, and French from day one, for the people who actually need it.
Business model
Reach consumers; monetize the marketplace and the organizations that serve them.
Consumer
A free tier that builds trust, with a subscription for the deeper planning, tracking, and AI preparation tools.
Attorneys and organizations
Seats for attorneys, law firms, nonprofits, and legal-aid clinics who serve many clients and need to scale their help.
Marketplace
A vetted attorney marketplace where engagements, contracts, and client work flow through the app, layered on the same base alongside the directory.
The ask
Let's talk.
We are raising to grow consumer reach, sign the attorneys, firms, and clinics that serve immigrants at scale, and deepen the AI planning engine, the pathway coverage, and the marketplace. If you back founder-led, AI-native software that serves a large, underserved population with real stakes, and does it responsibly, we should talk.