Every agent-based O-1 has a US agent at the center — the petitioner who files so that no single employer has to. Understanding this one role explains the whole model.
The regulations allow a US agent to act as petitioner for a beneficiary with multiple engagements. The agent files the petition, holds the itinerary, handles amendments as engagements change, and answers USCIS — the process work that would otherwise land on an employer who never wanted it. The employers in your career write one-page interest letters; the agent turns them into a case.
The agent-based model, explained in the course overview.
No - the agent is the petitioner, not your employer. You work for the engagements on your itinerary; the agent holds the petition that authorizes that work.
The agent-based structure is what the platform is built around - joining free and building your evidence record is the starting point, and the structure conversation happens as your matches turn into letters.
Nothing on the platform - posting roles, matching and interest letters are free, and no card is collected. The employers in your itinerary never pay a USCIS filing fee.
That is the structure’s whole advantage: engagements can change through amendments inside the same petition architecture, instead of starting over each time a contract changes.