How to use
How to use

Diagnose
Plan
Citations & evidence
Citation Quick-Check
Pull your real citation count, h-index, and works count from OpenAlex — free, no login required to start.
Expert Finder
Finds researchers who cited your work but never co-authored with you — deterministic candidates for an independent support letter.
Citation Context Analyzer
Classifies how citing papers actually engage with your work — methodological use, substantive discussion, or just a listing — inside your case.
Citation Lens
See which citations to your most-cited work come from independent researchers — not co-authors, not your own institution.
Writing studios
RFE Studio
Parse a real RFE into objection cards tied to your exhibits, with matched AAO precedent and an officer tone read, then draft a response.
Expert Letter Studio
Drafts an independence check, a suitability map, and a letter skeleton in the expert's own register — they add their observations.
Field & Narrative Studio
Finds the strongest honest framing for your case, then builds a positioning narrative weaving your evidence into one story.
AI Drafter
Section-by-section petition drafting for your attorney, anchored to your record and checked before it's filed.
Denial/NOID Response
Upload your denial or NOID notice — Merito maps each ground against AAO precedent and drafts a response outline for attorney review.
Monitor & archive
Case intelligence
Case Journey
26 tools, one guided path — see exactly what's done, what's next, and why, without being forced to follow it.
Officer Simulator
Streams a criterion-by-criterion review in a simulated officer's voice, then a separate final-merits pass — see the read before you file.
Case Canvas
Every criterion mapped to its evidence, in one interactive graph — plus radar, heatmap, timeline, and version-compare views.
Debate Mode
An Advocate and a skeptical Officer argue your case in three rounds, then a Judge synthesizes what held and what fell.
Case Matcher
Finds AAO decisions relevant to your case's claims and summarizes argument patterns across them — not an outcome prediction.
USCIS Case Tracker
Track your USCIS case status in one place, updated by hand while automatic USCIS sync isn't live.
AAO Decisions Explorer
Search the published AAO appeal decisions, read our summary of each one and open the official PDF, then compare a decision with your own case.
Audit & review
Merito Audit
Deterministic, code-first checks — dead links, DPI, exhibit numbering, name consistency — before any AI touches your file.
Devil's Advocate
The strongest good-faith case against your petition, written out section by section, before an AAO panel or opposing analyst has to.
Petition Studio
A paragraph-by-paragraph read of your petition draft — readability, generic language, evidence linkage, and broken argument bridges.
Evidence Binder
Every piece of evidence in your case, organized criterion by criterion and exhibit-numbered — no AI, just your Case File laid out clearly.
Achievement Miner
An interview that turns things you did but never wrote down into evidence candidates for your case.
Portfolio
Assemble your Evidence Binder and Draft Petition into one combined, attorney-ready PDF, in the order you choose.
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