A signed legal opinion on your UK visa. In hours.

Compass turns a 15-minute conversation into a verified case file, prices the professional's time upfront, and delivers an opinion signed by a regulated lawyer — into the same chat where you told your story.

Live pilot on the UK Graduate & Skilled Worker routes · born at Hack the Law, Cambridge · demo access on request

Compass — intake
Have you ever had a visa refused or cancelled, anywhere?
No, neverYes — I’ll explain
Yes — a Canada visitor visa in 2022.
Thanks for telling me. That’s now the one item on your file a professional will personally review.
£60 Your fixed price — baseline review + 1 item needing professional judgment, computed before any lawyer is involved.
9 of 10 requirements verified automatically
traced to source · rule-checked
The problem

Huge demand. Unaffordable supply.

3.1M

UK visas granted last year. Work, family and settlement are where one mistake becomes permanent.

£1,500+

what a lawyer charges for even a straightforward application. Asking alone costs £100 to £500.

63%

of England & Wales has no local immigration legal aid provider. Most people simply guess.

Home Office immigration statistics 2025 · published UK firm fee scales · The Law Society legal aid desert maps 2026

The insight

Software may not conclude.
Only a licensed professional may.

Every AI legal product fights this rule. We built our architecture on it.

The solution

The AI does the data entry.
The lawyer does the judgment.

01

Every fact shows its receipts.

Stated in chat, traced to its source, cross-checked against official registers. Nothing on the file is unexplained.

02

Every check is deterministic.

Versioned legal rules, pure functions. The whole engine runs — and is tested — with the LLM switched off.

03

Every verdict word is banned.

“Eligible” cannot appear on any client screen. It’s unit-tested. Conclusions exist only under a professional’s signature.

04

Judgment goes to a human.

Whatever a rule can’t decide is routed to a regulated professional, who concludes and signs. That residue is the product.

The product · live today

The client tells it once. The lawyer sees it whole.

The applicant
  1. 1
    Talks for 15 minutes. Questions only — never a form, never an upload. The questions come from the legal rules, in their language.
  2. 2
    Sees one upfront price. Computed by the engine from their own case before any lawyer is involved — and paid before matching, so there’s nothing to haggle.
  3. 3
    Stays in the same chat. The professional joins the conversation, resolves what needs judgment, and the signed opinion arrives right there.
The professional
  1. 1
    Receives a verified case file. Every requirement checked and traced to its evidence — with the fee stated before they touch the case.
  2. 2
    Judges only the flagged items. Everything mechanical is already done. They talk to the client in the same chat until each item is decided.
  3. 3
    Edits the draft. Signs. Gets rated. The machine drafts the assessment from the file; the professional edits any word and signs under their registration number.
The marketplace

Two ways a case arrives.

Your own clients

A firm’s intake, automated.

A practice sends its client a private link. The engine structures the case overnight; the case is reserved for that professional alone.

Hours of intake, re-typing and cross-checking become minutes of review.

New clients

The open marketplace.

Clients without a lawyer build their case first, see the fixed price, and pay. Verified professionals in the right field and language see the offer — fee stated — and the first to confirm takes the case.

No directories, no bidding, no cold calls. The client rates the professional when the case closes.

Business model

We sell the lawyer’s hour back to them.

3 hours → 15 minutes

of professional time per case, because everything checkable arrives already checked.

price = (baseline + judgment items × 15 min) at the professional rate. The engine counts what still needs human judgment and prices it as time, upfront.

Clients pay less because the research is done. Professionals earn more per hour because only judgment is left. The platform takes a commission on every case.

Example · computed by the engine

Graduate visa consultation

Baseline review & signature15 min
Disclosed visa refusal — professional judgment15 min
9 requirements verified automatically£0
Fixed price, before matching£60

Withheld facts never lower the price — the file is priced, not the story. Figures from the live pilot; final pricing follows market interviews.

Where this comes from

Born at Hack the Law, Cambridge 2026.

Our founding team won the Linklaters, Luminance and White & Case challenges, plus First Place Overall and the Audience Favourite Award, at Cambridge’s Hack the Law — judged by the firms that set the challenges.

The product is live end to end today. Every visa route is a data file — adding one is legal research, not engineering — and the rule packs are reviewed with qualified professionals before anything real.

🏆 First Place Overall · Hack the Law 2026 Linklaters challenge Luminance challenge White & Case challenge SPARK · King’s E-Lab · Cambridge

See it run.

A conversation in, a conversation out — with a deterministic engine and a licensed professional in between.