Economics
Our math, with assumptions
Most software vendors publish one glossy savings number and never show the arithmetic behind it. We would rather show you ours and let you argue with it. Every figure on this page is a model estimate, and we say so on the number itself.
| What | Paralegal hours | At $45/hr loaded | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family packet (marriage-based AOS) | ~4.9 | ~$220 | 854 mapped fields drawn from 252 unique facts. Roughly 600 entries are re-typing that the fact store removes. |
| H-1B filing set | ~6.6 | ~$295 | 281-field I-129 plus the 107-field LCA, the support letter, and an auto-generated Public Access File. |
| 50-petition cap season | ~330 | ~$14,850 | The same per-filing saving carried across a cap season, which is where the throughput argument actually lands. |
Figures are model estimates, not measured medians. See the assumptions below.
What these numbers are not
They are not measured medians. They are models built from field counts we can verify in our own code, multiplied by hour estimates we believe are reasonable and a loaded rate you can change. Nobody has yet stopwatched a hundred real cases to produce them.
Our design partners are time-tracking real filings now. When we have enough cases, every estimate on this page gets replaced with a measured median and the sample size next to it. If a measured number comes back worse than the estimate, that is the number that will appear here.
The assumptions, stated plainly
- A loaded paralegal rate of $45/hr. Change it in the calculator; the savings move with it.
- Field and fact counts are code-verified against our own form mappings, not estimated.
- Hours per petition before and after are estimates, and they are the softest input here.
- Government filing fees are excluded throughout, since they are identical whichever software you use.
- Savings compare software plus labor, not software licence against software licence.