Co-Founder & Chief Immigration Counsel — AI-Powered Legal Tech Startup; Equity

The Opportunity

Para Leagle 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.

Para Leagle 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 Para Leagle 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.

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.

You would operate a dedicated Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC) that serves as the legal practice entity, structured under a Management…