Jürgen Pretsch

The business plan, and the business behind it.

For founders whose business exists only on paper, and the attorneys who represent them. I write the plan, then build the enterprise it describes: entity, site, product, first customers, the founder's public voice. In English or German.

Business consultancy, not a law firm. Your attorney owns the case.

The plans

The problem with plans

A visa business plan is the most scrutinized document in the file, and the most common reason a case wobbles is that the business isn't real yet: no site, no product, no customers, a plan written by a template shop that has never run anything. I write plans that read like businesses because I build the business at the same time. When the officer looks, there is something to see.

What that looks like in practice: my own filed plan, section by section.

We want to open a café in Austin.

Investment: about $180,000.

Can we move by spring?

Day 14: the plan
Site
Entity
Product
First customer

Day 90: the business

What gets produced

Plan, business, evidence.

Plan. Immigration-ready: the enterprise, the market, five-year projections, staffing, use of funds, the investor's role in developing and directing it. Written to the attorney's brief, revised with the attorney's notes.

Business. Entity coordinated with counsel, a real site, a working product or prototype, the first channel launched, the founder's presence and published writing. The investment deployed into something that operates.

Evidence. Screenshots, contracts, traffic, customers, press and the founder's own published pieces, organized the way the file needs them. For O-1 cases the founder writes their own pieces and I edit and pitch them; where research is involved, funded work goes on the record too.

How it works

  1. 01

    The plan.

    Two weeks, $1,500. The business plan, written to the attorney's brief, with the build scope and its costs. Credited in full against the 90-day build.

  2. 02

    90-day build.

    Ninety days, $18,000, paid in three parts. The enterprise built and launched.

  3. 03

    Monthly retainer.

    $5,000 a month, optional. Keeps the business visible through renewal.

Who this is for

Founders from treaty countries starting or buying a US business, especially German, Austrian and Swiss founders who want their plan and their business in a language they think in. L-1 new-office cases. O-1 and NIW applicants whose case needs a visible record. And the attorneys who represent them. No E-2 treaty with your country (India, China, Brazil, Vietnam)? The routes are L-1, O-1 and NIW, and those cases are built on exactly what I produce: a real business and a visible record.

Three lines I don't cross

I'm not a lawyer and I don't give legal or immigration advice; the attorney owns the case and decides what the file needs. Every plan describes a business the client will really run; I don't build paper companies. I don't pay or take referral fees; the value to the attorney is a stronger case.

Questions

Do you work with the attorney or the client?

Both. The attorney sets the brief and reviews; the client and I build.

How fast?

Plan in two weeks. Business in ninety days. Faster if the attorney's timeline needs it and the client can keep up.

German?

Natively. The plan in English for the file, the conversation in German if that's easier.

Do you guarantee approval?

No one honest does. I guarantee a plan and a business that exist and hold up.

Can you also write the founder's story for O-1 or NIW?

Yes. That's the ghostwriting half of what I do.

What does a visa business plan cost here?

$1,500 fixed for an E-2, L-1 new office or NIW plan, credited in full if you go on to the 90-day build. O-1 starts with a $1,500 evidence audit; the evidence build is $5,000 a month.

How long does it take?

The plan takes two weeks; the business it describes takes ninety days.

Is this legal advice?

No, this is independent business consultancy, and your attorney owns the case.

Tell me where the business stands. I'll tell you which plan it needs.