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Area O1 turns your work (papers, code, talks, press, judging) into a living evidence file for an O-1A or EB-1A extraordinary-ability case: a criteria scoreboard, an evidence inbox, metrics, deadlines, letters and a dashboard. It runs on your computer, and your case is a folder of plain files that stays yours.

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The Overview page: criteria banked against the threshold, the Inbox, this week's briefing and the scoreboard The Overview page: criteria banked against the threshold, the Inbox, this week's briefing and the scoreboard

Find your way

  • Getting started

    Install on macOS, Linux or Windows, start from your LinkedIn PDF, add an OpenAI key if you want chat, and set budget caps.

    Install

  • Guided tour

    Every page of the dashboard, with screenshots: Overview, Inbox, Evidence, Memory and the rest.

    Start the tour

  • Connectors

    GitHub, Hugging Face, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, arXiv, ORCID, any website, Gmail, .eml files and chat-history exports.

    Connectors

  • MCP and agents

    Let Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Codex read your case over MCP. No API key needed.

    MCP setup

  • How it works

    Claims that quote their source, invited vs completed, your review, the rule check and the knowledge vault.

    How it works

  • Best practices

    Evidence that holds up, letters, outreach etiquette, and keeping your case private.

    Best practices

In one minute

  1. Install with one line, and Area O1 opens in your browser at 127.0.0.1:7777.
  2. Start from your LinkedIn PDF. It's read on your computer, with emails and phone numbers removed first.
  3. Add sources: your GitHub, Hugging Face, scholarly profiles, press pages. Findings land in the Inbox, each quoting its source word for word.
  4. Review. Nothing becomes evidence until you accept it, and an invitation never counts as a completion.
  5. Watch the scoreboard: each criterion is banked, building or a gap, against the profile's rules.

Not legal advice

Area O1 is not legal advice and is not affiliated with USCIS. Criteria profiles are community-maintained summaries of public regulations (8 CFR 214.2(o), 8 CFR 204.5(h)). Always confirm strategy with an immigration attorney. Read the disclaimer.