About Oravanti
Built from both sides of the legal process.
Oravanti was created from firsthand experience spanning federal immigration adjudication, USCIS technology and workflow, officer training, program leadership, nationwide private legal operations, and the documented lessons of a federal modernization effort whose costs rose into the billions.
The platform is built from both sides of the process—and from direct knowledge of what happens when architecture, contractors, requirements, training, and implementation stop moving as one system.
Why Oravanti was created
The operational problems this platform was built to fix.
From federal case processing to private legal operations, the same structural gaps appeared over and over.
Founder & CEO
Olga Kanaris
Olga Kanaris is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oravanti. Her career spans federal immigration adjudication, USCIS program leadership, officer training, technology and workflow initiatives, quality control, and private legal operations.
At USCIS, her experience included adjustment-of-status and naturalization adjudications, NTA program leadership, training, and work inside the Office of Information Technology and ELIS environment. She gained firsthand knowledge of how immigration matters are received, routed, reviewed, documented, escalated, and decided — and how the systems supporting that process succeed or fail at the points where technology meets operations.
In private legal practice, Olga later led a nationwide immigration legal operation, managed attorneys, paralegals, and coordinators, wrote SOPs, conducted audits, standardized case preparation, and addressed the same fragmentation from the law-firm side.
Oravanti is the product of those two perspectives: how firms prepare legal work and how receiving institutions later process it.
Prior federal service with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Department of Homeland Security. No current government affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Agency names are used solely to identify relevant legal and administrative processes. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Why Olga Built Oravanti
The ELIS lesson was not abstract. She managed it from inside the program.
Olga Kanaris served as a federal immigration business interface representative and program manager for ELIS software development, with firsthand experience in government workflows, legal technology, quality control, training, and high-volume legal operations.
USCIS set out to replace fragmented, paper-heavy immigration processing with an electronic, account-based environment for intake, case management, document handling, adjudication, fraud and risk review, reporting, and agency data exchange.
The goal was important. The implementation became a public case study in how a complex processing platform can lose time, money, consistency, and institutional knowledge.
Olga Kanaris worked inside the USCIS operational and technology environment surrounding ELIS. Her role gave her visibility into the relationship between policy, adjudication, officer workflows, requirements, system behavior, technology teams, contractor delivery, training, field adoption, and the realities of processing large volumes of cases.
She saw that a platform can contain powerful technology and still struggle when its architecture, requirements, ownership, training, implementation, and accountability are not treated as one connected operating system.
Oravanti exists because those pieces cannot be separated.
What Olga Learned
Requirements cannot be lost in translation
System requirements must remain connected to the people who perform the work, review the evidence, manage the risk, and use the final output.
Architecture must anticipate expansion
A foundation built only for the first workflow can become expensive to extend. Oravanti is designed around a reusable operating model that can support additional workflows and legal specialties.
Contractors need one accountable standard
Different engineering and implementation teams cannot be allowed to create incompatible interpretations of the same platform. Oravanti maintains one product direction, one architecture standard, and company-controlled repositories and access.
Training is part of the product
A system is not successfully implemented merely because it is deployed. Users must understand the workflow, standards, controls, and responsibilities. Education and certification therefore sit inside the Oravanti ecosystem.
Quality control must be structural
Errors should be identified through repeatable, auditable controls before final output — not through ad-hoc review after information has moved through disconnected systems.
Data must be ready for the receiver
Government and institutional connectivity begins long before an API. It depends on how information is collected, validated, reviewed, approved, logged, secured, and packaged.
USCIS Transformation Program / ELIS cost escalation
2005
$536M
Original 2005 estimate
2015
$1.2B
Reported spent by 2015
2015 revised baseline
Up to $3.1B
Revised projected total
The lesson is not that complex government technology is easy. The lesson is that architecture, implementation, contracting, training, and operational ownership must be designed together from the beginning.
Historical figures describe the USCIS Transformation Program and ELIS, not Oravanti’s budget or system scope. The $3.1 billion amount was a revised projected program total, not an amount described as already spent.
Oravanti is not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS, DHS, or any government agency. Oravanti does not currently claim a government contract, live agency connection, FedRAMP authorization, or guaranteed future agency integration. Historical references are provided to explain founder experience, public program lessons, and Oravanti’s design philosophy.
Founder Career Timeline
A career built where the work actually happens.
- 1
Federal Immigration Operations
Direct federal service — case processing, review, and operational standards.
- 2
Field Training & Program Leadership
Training officers and leading operational programs at scale.
- 3
USCIS Technology & Workflow
Involvement with government-technology and workflow initiatives shaped by operational reality.
- 4
Private Legal Operations
Leading operations inside private legal practice, close to daily firm work.
- 5
SOP, Training, Audit & Quality Control
Building the standards, training, audit, and QC layers that hold operations together.
- 6
Oravanti Product Design
Translating years of both sides of the legal process into an operating environment for firms.
Experience → Product
Every part of Oravanti traces back to something we actually saw.
Experience
Federal adjudication experience
Product
Structured intake, evidence, review, and submission readiness
Experience
ELIS and USCIS technology workflow
Product
Receiving-system-aware architecture and auditable data design
Experience
Contractor and implementation challenges
Product
Company-controlled architecture, repositories, standards, and access
Experience
Officer and staff training
Product
Embedded education, knowledge checks, certification, and competency tracking
Experience
Program and operational leadership
Product
Clear ownership, dashboards, escalations, and measurable accountability
Experience
Private legal operations
Product
Firm-centered matter management, staff workflows, QC, reporting, and client communication
Experience
High-volume audits and SOPs
Product
Repeatable operating standards and review taxonomies
Chief Technology Officer
Verdi Ergün
Verdi Ergün leads Oravanti's engineering and platform architecture. His background includes large-scale technology, infrastructure, product development, and prior experience at Google. At Oravanti, he is responsible for building a scalable, secure, and maintainable technology foundation for the company's legal operating environment.
Product architecture
Application development
Security roadmap
Scalability & integrations
Prior technology experience at Google. No current affiliation.
Google is not affiliated with and does not endorse Oravanti.
Immigration-first strategy
Why the platform begins with immigration.
Immigration is the beachhead, not the ceiling. The operating model developed for immigration is designed to become a repeatable framework across additional legal specialties.
Founder-market fit
Direct federal and private-sector immigration experience anchors the workflow design.
Document complexity
Immigration matters demand structured evidence, form preparation, and review.
Client communication
High-touch client communication maps directly to the client-portal and education layer.
Repetitive workflows
Repeatable, review-intensive workflows benefit most from AI-assisted preparation.
Quality-control needs
Immigration work rewards operating environments with structured QC and attorney sign-off.
System-aware design
Familiarity with how government systems receive and process work informs product decisions.
Expansion Vision
A repeatable legal operating framework.
Immigration
Initial Beachhead
Family Law
Future Expansion
Criminal Law
Future Expansion
Real Estate
Future Expansion
Additional Specialties
Future Expansion
Responsible AI
AI supports the work. Attorneys own the judgment.
AI inside Oravanti supports drafting, issue identification, organization, and quality-control assistance. Attorneys remain responsible for legal judgment, final review, client advice, approval, and submission decisions.
Attorney remains responsible for
- Legal judgment
- Final review
- Client advice
- Approval
- Submission decisions
Oravanti does not provide legal advice, predict case outcomes, or replace attorney review.
Ways to Work With Oravanti
Choose the relationship that fits.
Law Firms and Attorneys
Request a private demonstration scoped to your firm's practice areas, staffing structure, matter volume, and current systems.
Founding Attorney Programs
Apply to the 60-day Founding Attorney Beta Program or the ongoing Attorney Advisor and Design Partner Program.
Affiliates
Approved general affiliates and attorney affiliates may make tracked introductions under the applicable written agreement.
Accredited Investors
Persons who satisfy applicable accredited-investor requirements may request a private introduction and approved materials.
Founding titles are recognition designations only and do not represent equity, ownership, or any securities interest in Oravanti Ventures Inc.
Clarity about scope.
- Oravanti is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
- Oravanti does not represent clients or file matters on their behalf.
- Oravanti does not predict case outcomes or replace attorney review.
- Use of Oravanti does not create an attorney-client relationship.
- Oravanti is not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS, DHS, Google, or any government agency or company unless expressly stated in an authorized announcement.
Talk to the team
See the operating environment.
The clearest way to understand Oravanti is a private demo scoped to your firm.