Agentic UK Skilled Worker visa extension application pack, salary threshold compliance check, and UKVI supporting document schedule service for small employers (1–50 staff) sponsoring workers whose initial 3-year visas are approaching expiry. Replaces the immigration solicitor who charges £1,500–£3,500 per renewal to verify the updated salary threshold compliance, produce the CoS assignment rationale, and compile the UKVI document bundle — a process made newly complex by the April 2024 and January 2025 salary threshold uplifts which have invalidated thousands of existing sponsorship arrangements.
Why now
No signals in today's batch; justified by the January 2025 further increase to Skilled Worker salary thresholds (to £38,700 for most roles) and the Home Office's confirmation that existing visa holders must meet new thresholds at renewal — creating a compliance crisis for thousands of small sponsors who set salaries based on 2023 thresholds.
Commercial value
~300,000 Skilled Worker visas were granted in 2023; a large cohort reaches 3-year renewal in 2026–2027. Immigration solicitors charge £1,500–£3,500 per renewal. A £499–£999 per-renewal agentic pack is a clear saving. Budget line: 'immigration legal fees' is a named HR cost centre for any sponsoring employer. ACV for a 5-worker sponsor: £2,500–£5,000/year at renewal peaks. TAM: tens of thousands of renewals annually in the UK SME segment.
Go-to-market
Target HR managers and finance directors at small sponsoring employers via LinkedIn content on the salary threshold trap, and cold outreach to HR software vendors (BambooHR, Breathe) as integration partners. Price at £699 per renewal pack. First 10 customers via direct outreach to r/ukvisa and LinkedIn posts targeting SME HR leads whose workers have 2023-vintage visas expiring in 2026.
2-week MVP
Intake form: worker's current CoS details, salary, occupation code, visa expiry date. LLM checks against current threshold tables, flags any shortfall, produces a UKVI-structured document checklist and a draft cover letter for the extension application. Delivered as PDF within 48 hours. Cut: actual UKVI portal submission, CoS assignment, sponsor licence compliance audit. Day-1 outcome: an HR manager pays £299 and receives a compliance gap report and document checklist that tells them exactly what to fix before the renewal deadline — replacing a £500 solicitor consultation.
Agent score
0.62 — Commercial score reflects a named, high-value budget line and a time-sensitive compliance crisis affecting thousands of SME sponsors; capped at 0.80 because the ImmigrationSponsorDesk idea in the past list covers adjacent territory (though that targets new licence applications, not renewals — this is genuinely distinct). Speed score is high but slightly lower than others because the threshold compliance logic requires careful table-lookup accuracy that needs a human QA pass. Defensibility is weak short-term but builds if the product accumulates outcome data from successful renewals.
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