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Every immigration case, attorney-ready, in minutes.

Pleava runs intake, chases documents, scores the file and drafts the forms — so your attorneys open a case that is already complete. Nothing but a reminder reaches a client, or a government form, without an attorney's approval.

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Firm app — case detail

An illustration of a case file in the Pleava firm app: a spousal petition with an evidence checklist showing which documents have been received, a case-completeness bar at 78 percent, and an internal AI assessment panel scoring the case against four criteria.

The problem

Immigration practice breaks in three places.

  1. 01

    The lead goes cold before you answer

    Clients shop around. The firm that replies first is usually the firm that gets retained — and a form submission that lands at 9pm gets a reply the next afternoon, if it gets one at all.

    Speed-to-lead is the whole acquisition problem, and it is a staffing problem you cannot staff your way out of.

  2. 02

    The file is never complete

    Chasing documents is unpaid, unglamorous, and endless. Paralegals send the same five reminders across email, text and WhatsApp, and the case still arrives at consult half-built.

    Every week a file sits incomplete is a week of clock, capacity and goodwill spent on follow-up.

  3. 03

    The work lives in five disconnected places

    Case management here, forms there, deadlines in a spreadsheet, documents in email, the client conversation on someone's phone. No system knows the whole case, so no one does either.

    The cost is not the software. It is that nothing can be automated across tools that do not share a data model.

The product

Three AI assistants. One case file.

They share one data model, so the passport your client photographs on WhatsApp is the same row the checklist tracks, the score reads, and the form fills from.

iAI Intake

The case is built before you open it.

A form submission becomes a case file: the questions adapt to the visa path, the applicant is researched, the file is scored criterion by criterion, and an attorney brief is waiting. All of it inside a minute.

  • Dynamic stepper, multilingual, ~8 minutes for the client
  • Per-criterion likelihood score — internal, never client-visible
  • Validation rules flag the brief, never the client
Attorney brief — generated at intake

An illustration of the attorney brief Pleava generates when an intake form is submitted: a likelihood score of 82 out of 100, the signals behind it, and a flagged issue for the attorney to review.

iiAI Client Assistant

The chasing happens without you.

It works on WhatsApp, where your clients already are. It asks one question at a time, in their language, reads the photos they send, checks legibility before you ever see the file — and knows exactly where its authority ends.

  • Photos, PDFs, voice notes — read, classified, filed against the case
  • Never gives advice, never predicts an outcome, never interprets eligibility
  • Checks legibility on the spot, so a bad photo costs a message, not a week
WhatsApp — client thread

An illustration of a WhatsApp conversation between Pleava's assistant and a client. The assistant asks for a photo of the petitioner's passport, detects that the first photo is too blurry to read and asks for a retake, then confirms the document and its expiry date. When the client asks whether their case will be approved, the assistant declines to predict the outcome and escalates the question to the assigned attorney.

iiiAI Case Counsel

Answers you can check in one click.

Ask anything about a case and get an answer drawn from the file itself, with every claim footnoted to the document, message or form field it came from. Then you approve it, edit it, or throw it out.

  • Every citation deep-links to its source in the file
  • Drafts forms: deterministic mapping for data, AI only for judgment
  • Approval is scoped to the assigned attorney — enforced, not suggested
Ask Pleava — case-scoped

An illustration of Pleava's case counsel answering a question about a sponsor's income. Every claim in the answer is footnoted to a source in the case file, and the answer sits behind an approve-or-edit control, with the line: Decision rests with the attorney. Always.

Practice areas

Built around how your caseload actually splits.

Each workflow is a definition — stages, evidence, validation rules, deadlines, forms — authored with your firm against your caseload, not guessed at in advance. Adding a category is content, not a product release.

  • Family-based

    Petitions, adjustment of status, consular processing, waivers, removal of conditions

  • Employment-based

    Specialty occupation, extraordinary ability, national interest, intracompany transfer

  • Naturalization

    Eligibility tracking, applications, interview preparation

  • Humanitarian

    Asylum, temporary protected status, deferred action, victim-based relief

  • Status & travel

    Extensions, changes of status, travel and work authorization

  • RFE & NOID response

    Deadline clocks, evidence gap analysis, response assembly — across every category

Not built for: EOIR practice, removal defense, or court appearances. We would rather say so here than on the call.

Firm operations

And the firm the cases run through.

The assistants do the work. This is the system that holds it — one place where a case, the people on it and the hours against it are the same record.

  1. i

    Case management

    Every lead becomes a case, with its tasks, deadlines and documents mapped to its visa type — not to a generic template someone has to bend to fit.

    Stages, evidence and deadlines come from the workflow definition for that category.

  2. ii

    Teams & roles

    Attorneys and paralegals with role-based access, case assignment and supervision. Everyone sees the work that is theirs, and partners see all of it.

    Only the assigned attorney — or a delegate they name — approves that case's AI output.

  3. iii

    Time & timesheets

    Everyone logs hours against cases, and timesheets come out in a click. Built-in billing-integrity checks keep every logged hour defensible.

    Overlaps, double-booked windows and hours with no matching case activity surface for the supervising partner to review.

Security

The parts that cannot be wrong.

You carry the bar licence and the duty of confidentiality. Software that handles your clients' files has to be built as though it knows that.

  1. i.

    Attorney-controlled decisioning

    No AI output reaches a client or a government form unless an attorney approved it, or it is whitelisted as low-stakes — reminders and scheduling, nothing more. Document requests are not whitelisted. There is no third path, and no setting that creates one.

  2. ii.

    Encryption

    Encrypted in transit and at rest, throughout. Documents are served only through short-lived links issued after an access check — never from a public URL, never from a guessable path.

  3. iii.

    Role-based access

    Attorney, paralegal and admin are distinct roles with distinct powers. Only a case's assigned attorney — or a delegate they name, time-boxed and logged — can approve that case's AI output. Every firm's data is isolated at the database, not by application code that has to remember.

  4. iv.

    Audit trails

    Every meaningful action appends to an append-only log: who acted, whether it was a person or the AI, on whose behalf, and when. Nothing in the platform can update or delete an entry. Your dashboards and your audit trail are the same record, so the one you show a regulator is the one you run on.

  5. v.

    Confidentiality by design

    Client messages, document text and prompts stay inside our boundary — never in third-party error logs or analytics, which see identifiers and counts only. Privileged material is flagged and stays out of client-facing views. Client messages are treated as untrusted input, because a message is something a stranger writes.

See it run on your own caseload.

Thirty minutes. Bring a case you would normally dread — a half-built file, a client who has gone quiet, an RFE with a clock on it. We will show you what it looks like on the other side.

No pitch deck. No pricing call.

pleava| ˈpleɪ·və |noun
  1. 1

    a case file with nothing missing from it.

  2. 2

    the condition of a practice in which every deadline, document and draft is where it should be, and the attorney is the one deciding.

Origin: ours. There wasn't a word for it, and the work needed one.

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