outricher/Visa ICP playbook/Profiles/ICP 04
ICP 04 · The self-petition that assembles itself · [ORDERS, e.g. ordered 2×]
Ten years of shipped work under recognizable logos
profiles delivered
with a patent, award or publication
email coverage on the shipped cut
The canonical EB-1A self-petition prospect, and the cohort where the evidence is already public before the first call. A senior, staff or principal engineer with an undergraduate degree from home and a decade of name-brand employer history maps directly onto the criteria a petition is built from: the employer history is the critical-role argument, and self-listed patents, awards and publications are the original-contribution and scholarly-article arguments. The practice’s own mid-flight correction turned it from a pedigree cohort into an urgency one — cap US experience under eight years and you are left with people still inside the employer-dependent window.
Hypothesis
The evidence exists and is public; what’s missing is someone telling them it’s a case.
Signal
In the US ∧ undergraduate degree at a home-country institution ∧ 10+ years of career but under 8 in the US ∧ a verified name-brand employer in the history ∧ senior / staff / principal title.
Proof
46/46 unit tests on the institution matcher; evidence counted, never inferred — patents 8.5%, publications 13.2%, awards 22.1% of the pool.
Five rows from a delivered file
Who is actually in it
Anonymized to role, employer size band, region and signal — no candidate, client or employer is ever named.
| Who | Where they work | Location | The evidence on file | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior staff software engineer | global enterprise software vendor, 100K+ staff | United States | 22 yrs · state-university undergrad · patents on file | personal email ✓ |
| Senior engineering manager, AI/ML | consumer-devices manufacturer | United States | 20 yrs · national-institute undergrad · patents on file | personal email ✓ |
| Senior machine learning engineer | social platform | United States | 13 yrs · engineering-college undergrad · patents on file | personal email ✓ |
| Senior software engineer | hyperscale cloud provider | United States | 11 yrs · institute-of-technology undergrad · under 8 years in the US | personal email ✓ |
| ERP consultant | global IT-services major | United States | 10+ yrs · enterprise-platform specialization | profile ✓ |
The volume
What was delivered, and from what
1,360 delivered, and 514 of them carry at least one patent, award or publication already attached. The qualified pool was 31,705 people on the original criteria and 2,788 after his mid-build correction; the 1,360 were shipped from [CLARIFY — the 2,788 pool?].
Explicit visa or OPT keywords appear on 0.8% of this pool — the segment cannot be found by searching for the problem. Email coverage quoted honestly: 98.8% on the shipped cut, 48.3% across the full pool.
What this means for your practice
The evidence file is half-built before the first call: a dated critical-role history under recognizable employers, plus the patents, awards or publications already attached to 514 rows. Open with EB-1A or NIW and the exhibits they already hold.
Where we got it wrong, or nearly did
Two signals we refused to fake
Three delivery revisions in four days, two of them driven by his corrections. He asked why only 17 rows in the first file carried deep enrichment; we traced the cause (the cohort had been enriched before the email filter, which then dropped them), fixed it at zero cost and re-shipped with “this delivery replaces the previous one and fixes the two issues you flagged” — 1,303 of the 1,360 enriched. Two other signals he asked for we reported back as unbuildable rather than faking them: professional-group membership measured zero non-empty across the entire pool, and the freshest activity timestamp available was months old, so “active in the last seven days” could not honestly be built.
What Outricher does
Custom research on a career graph, sold per record.
Outricher builds custom research on a career graph — dated positions, education records, awards, patents, publications and a contact layer — and ships it as ranked, evidence-tagged cohorts. The visa practice described here is one client; the method is the same for any ICP you can put into words.
for a first sample of your own ICP — [SAMPLE SIZE, e.g. 25 rows] ranked rows within [SAMPLE TURNAROUND, e.g. 48 hours]
per contact, flat — never a share of your engagement fee. Pricing
profiles built for one visa practice. See them all
Want this cohort for your own practice?
Describe the version of it you want — origin, field, seniority, years in the US — and we run it against the graph. Back comes a free sample of real ranked candidates with the evidence attached and contactability resolved.
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