Parley (YC S24)

As a startup, no one knows who you are. You're completely new to almost everyone...but that can be an advantage. You have the opportunity to nail a first impression. That's why we just launched a new landing page with Parley (YC S24) Your landing page becomes a key reference for customers, potential investors, and the future employees you'll hire. I made a quick video sharing our process: 1?? See what's out there Don't just look at competitor marketing. We spent time exploring companies we admire, understanding what’s unique to them, and how they showcase it. For us, it’s the quality of our drafts. To highlight this, we added something tangible—a downloadable sample case. 2?? Build or buy? Every startup needs to weigh its options. Do you build in-house or use external tools? Just like any build/buy decision, you'll need to understand your current situation and capabilities. 3?? Use the same language as your customer. When writing copy, we didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, we used the same language our customers already use—clear, direct, and meaningful to them. Nothing fluffy, nothing confusing. Just the words they use to describe the problem. Excited to see what the immigration law community thinks, along with anyone curious about what we’re building. #startups #landingpage #legaltech #immigrationlaw #Parley #immigration #legaltech

How do you get AI to produce a strong, accurate, and cohesive output for 20+ pages? Break the problem down into steps and integrate it with human decision-making. This is exactly what we built with our latest feature, Parley Groups ?? Take a look at this visa application—it’s entirely AI-generated, featuring accurate quotes and organized subtopics within criteria as decided by a drafter-in-the-loop. To get to a polished draft like this, it's important to break down AI drafting into individual steps. This gets firms closer to a logical, finished draft in record time. Here’s how it works: 1?? Upload your evidence across various criteria. 2?? Parley suggests natural groupings of evidence to structure your argument—for example, grouping evidence related to an applicant’s original contributions at Google. 3?? Review and approve these groupings, creating the backbone of a cohesive legal argument. 4?? In minutes, Parley (YC S24) generates a ready-to-review draft—not just a summary, but a well-organized, compelling argument. Excited to see how firms, and their end clients, up their efficiency with this! #LegalTech #ImmigrationLaw #AI #Efficiency #Parley

I've always heard that word of mouth is the best form of marketing... but sometimes, when you're asked by great companies like Brex if you want some billboard advertising in the middle of Times Square, you oblige. If you peer above the TKTS sign you'll see that Parley (YC S24) got some airtime in NYC last week. Thanks Brex team for making it happen!?

Last Friday I had the privilege of speaking on the topic of AI in Immigration Law at the #AILA Conference in Monterey, CA. Big thanks to my co-panelists Jeffrey O'Brien, JD, Charity Anastasio, and Brittany Thomas Faith. We discussed how AI can and will reshape the practice of immigration law, and considerations for how to enable this in an ethical manner to deliver more efficient, effective, and accessible legal services. 1?? AI as a Trusted Legal Assistant (with Supervision): Immigration lawyers need to start thinking of AI as an assistant with extraordinary abilities—able to generate efficient drafts, extract key facts, and conduct supervised research in record time. But, like any assistant it also shouldn’t be relied on as a perfect solution and requires very defined and structured oversight and refinement from experienced legal professionals. This marriage should be developed through defined workflows and processes ensuring the advantages of these tools are leveraged without sacrificing quality. With careful supervision and purpose-built workflows, AI can significantly enhance speed, accuracy, and overall customer satisfaction. 2?? Embracing the Power of AI and Client Demands AI isn’t a tool that we can afford to ignore, it's too powerful. Energy should be put into figuring out how to ethically leverage the best tools and not whether to leverage them. This isn’t just a nice-to-have like a scheduling app; it’s a fundamental shift in how legal work can and should be done. It is also very telling when the government, including the USCIS, in many adjudication and screening use cases, are heavily leveraging AI (more on this in a future post). If we look outside of immigration law, clients themselves are also starting to leverage these tools to demand more out of their legal counsel. This was discussed by the highly respected Damien Riehl as well, as corporations themselves are leveraging tools like vLex to obtain initial draft guidance to then pass along to their outside counsel to improve. 3?? New Business Models & Client-Centric Solutions: As AI changes the way we work and as it drives what clients expect, there are incredible opportunities for those truly focused on what their clients want. With the acceleration of immigration-focused AI tools being developed, understanding not only the importance of data security and privacy but also the nuances of immigration, the future is bright for those along for the ride. These tools, such as Parley (YC S24), are built to enable lawyers to do their best work by allowing them to focus their time on legal strategy, analysis, and refining work product, instead of burning hours on non-legal tasks. AI in legal presents an exciting future for those willing to focus on optimizing to meet client desires, while never losing site of a lawyer's duty of confidentiality, supervision, and competency, among others. #immigration #AI #legaltech #innovation

Some folks have asked me about the future of US immigration given Parley (YC S24) operates in this space. My quick thoughts: The value of a good lawyer just went way up. It’s hard to predict exactly how policy or enforcement will change. I firmly believe in the power of technology to amplify impact—and the best lawyers will further their impact by using the best tools. Our focus remains: automate the repetitive work so attorneys can focus on the outcome of their client.

You may be hearing a lot about AI agents these days.... so, naturally, we had to give the Parley (YC S24) spin on it. Introducing Parley’s Research Agent ??♂? Our agent puts evidence collection on auto-pilot for immigration law firms and mobility teams, meaning you’ll never have to do independent research again. Say your applicant was featured in TechCrunch, and you want to highlight that in their visa application. Normally, you’d have to search for supporting data, like TechCrunch's monthly traffic, to show USCIS why this is major media. But what if you didn’t have to search for those details yourself? With Parley’s Research Agent, you don't have to. No more Google searching, PDF downloading, and trying to integrate it into your application. Parley's got you covered across salary data, Google Scholar citations, and more. This was fun to build. Excited to see how this makes assembling visa petitions faster and easier for firms using Parley. Let’s get your evidence collection running on auto-pilot! ?? #immigrationlaw #legaltech #AIagents #immigration

This was cool. Got lucky to have a clear day in SF! Thanks Arc for the Golden Gate shoutout. Stay tuned for more Parley (YC S24) LinkedIn content drops to see how the top immigration firms are using AI to assemble their cases.

Writing letters of recommendation for visa applications can eat up precious time for immigration attorneys and applicants. We decided to change that. Introducing Letters of Reference, by Parley (YC S24) ?? You can now generate reference letters directly in Parley, personalized for each client, and ready for legal review. Even better, we pull from the contextual evidence you’ve already uploaded to craft stronger, more relevant letters in less time. Less back-and-forth, more time for case strategy (or, whatever you want ?? ) Want to see it in action? Book a demo or send us a message! s/o Jackson Perry for being the test applicant here ;-)

?? On episode 108 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re speaking to two co-founders building an AI immigration startup for O-1, EB-1 and EB-2 NIW visas, Philip Smart and Jackson Perry of Parley (YC S24)! (?? Huge thank you to this episode’s main sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service immigration professionals use to never miss a client call or inquiry again. Get $250 off your first month by using this link! ?? https://lnkd.in/e9rADmmD ??) (?? Also, Huge thank you to this episode’s second sponsor, Docketwise! All-in-one immigration case management platform with best-in-class forms and questionnaires, industry-leading integrations, a great blog and podcast, and much more. Check out Docketwise here! ?? https://t.ly/ELlEA ?? ) Philip and Jackson were friends in college and always wanted to build something together. Both have entrepreneurial backgrounds and founded successful businesses in college, and, along with a third co-founder, they were exploring a number of industries. Along the way, Philip spoke to his father, a long-time immigration attorney, about his challenges, thoughts on tech in immigration, and possible opportunities. That conversation hit the nail on the head - using technology to make his father’s work better was the winner. Thus, Parley was born. So, here’s what we’re going to talk about on this episode: ??Philip’s and Jackson’s background and their journeys in college attending UNC. ??Their entrepreneurial endeavors during college, lessons learned, and vision for their futures. ??How their conversations with Philip’s father, an immigration attorney, inspired Parley. ??What Parley does today, where the company is header, and general thoughts on immigration tech. And more! So please join us, ask questions and leave comments! #immigration #immigrationlaw #legaltech #globalmobility #legaltech ---- Check out Parley here: https://www.parley.so/ Follow Philip on LinkedIn here: https://lnkd.in/euPUPcCG and Jackson on LinkedIn here: https://lnkd.in/eGV4rs9w Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility firms at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/ Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/ Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://lnkd.in/dQkMcnJv

?? On episode 108 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re speaking to two co-founders building an AI immigration startup for O-1, EB-1 and EB-2 NIW visas, Philip Smart and Jackson Perry of Parley (YC S24)! (?? Huge thank you to this episode’s main sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service immigration professionals use to never miss a client call or inquiry again. Get $250 off your first month by using this link! ?? https://lnkd.in/e9rADmmD ??) (?? Also, Huge thank you to this episode’s second sponsor, Docketwise! All-in-one immigration case management platform with best-in-class forms and questionnaires, industry-leading integrations, a great blog and podcast, and much more. Check out Docketwise here! ?? https://t.ly/ELlEA ?? ) Philip and Jackson were friends in college and always wanted to build something together. Both have entrepreneurial backgrounds and founded successful businesses in college, and, along with a third co-founder, they were exploring a number of industries. Along the way, Philip spoke to his father, a long-time immigration attorney, about his challenges, thoughts on tech in immigration, and possible opportunities. That conversation hit the nail on the head - using technology to make his father’s work better was the winner. Thus, Parley was born. So, here’s what we’re going to talk about on this episode: ??Philip’s and Jackson’s background and their journeys in college attending UNC. ??Their entrepreneurial endeavors during college, lessons learned, and vision for their futures. ??How their conversations with Philip’s father, an immigration attorney, inspired Parley. ??What Parley does today, where the company is header, and general thoughts on immigration tech. And more! So please join us, ask questions and leave comments! #immigration #immigrationlaw #legaltech #globalmobility #legaltech ---- Check out Parley here: https://www.parley.so/ Follow Philip on LinkedIn here: https://lnkd.in/euPUPcCG and Jackson on LinkedIn here: https://lnkd.in/eGV4rs9w Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility firms at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/ Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/ Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://lnkd.in/dQkMcnJv