Your agent's compliance memory

Check your documents before USCIS does

We cross-check your immigration and tax filings to find mismatches, missing forms, and deadline risks you don't know about yet.

Private by design. Your documents never leave your computer.

Download Claude Extension

One-click install into the Claude Desktop app.

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Forms tracked
23
Deadlines
156
Key phrases
I-983
Form 5472
1040-NR
FBAR
EAD
AR-11
I-797

This is what you're supposed to track

Forms, deadlines, key phrases, reporting windows. One missed item can cost $25,000 or your status.

I-20I-94I-983I-797EAD (I-766)I-765I-129I-485I-131AR-11DS-1601040-NRForm 8843Form 3520Form 8938Schedule CSchedule NECW-8BENForm 5472Pro forma 11201120-SEIN LetterArticles of OrgFBAR (FinCEN 114)DE Annual Report60-day Grace Period90-day Unemployment10-day Address ReportAdvance Parole ValiditySubstantial Presence TestEffectively Connected IncomeDisregarded EntityDuration of StatusMaterial ChangeUnauthorized EmploymentCap-Gap ExtensionCorporate VeilSEVIS TerminationTreaty RateAdjustment of StatusConcurrent Filing

The hard part isn't the paperwork

It's keeping your own facts straight and catching the rules nobody warned you about. Four things quietly go wrong — here's each one, and how Guardian catches it.

Source of truth

Your facts live in 30 different places

Your status, your dates, your history — scattered across an I-20, an I-797, passport stamps, and old emails. Every form re-asks the same things, and one wrong date quietly cascades into the next.

Guardian keeps one source of truth — your real facts, verified once and reused by every check, form, and deadline, so nothing contradicts itself.

Rule check

The rules are bright-line — and unforgiving

Work one day before your CPT is authorized and it’s “unauthorized employment.” File a 1040 instead of a 1040-NR and you’ve filed the wrong return entirely. Forums and chatbots answer for “a student,” not for you.

Guardian checks your real documents and facts against the actual rules — the same bright lines USCIS and the IRS use — so the answer fits your case, not a generic FAQ.

Hidden risk

You can’t Google a risk you’ve never heard of

FBAR. Form 5472. The 60-day grace period. The 30-day 83(b) clock. The scariest deadline is always the one nobody mentioned — until the penalty notice shows up.

Guardian surfaces the deadlines and risks that actually apply to you before they become violations, and re-checks every time something changes.

Document mismatch

Your own documents don’t agree

Your offer letter says one job title, your I-983 says another. Your I-20 end date doesn’t match what you filed. Those quiet mismatches are exactly what triggers an RFE or a denial.

Guardian cross-checks your documents against each other and against your facts, and flags the mismatch before a reviewer does.

How it works

Start Guardian, on purpose

Type /guardian anytime — or /guardian <your situation> to route straight to your case.

One line in. Guardian does the rest — pulling your documents, checking them against your own facts, and surfacing the risk that actually matters. That’s the loop above, step by step.

01

Start with one line

Type /guardian and your situation in plain English — “F-1, paid internship in 2 weeks.” No intake form, no track to pick.

/guardian
02

Guardian pulls your documents

It searches your data room and history for what’s relevant — your I-20, offer letter, prior filings — instead of making you dig them up.

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Checks them against your facts

Cross-references your source-of-truth — status, program dates, terms completed — so the answer fits your case, not a generic FAQ.

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Runs the real compliance check

Bright-line rules, deadlines, and risk — e.g. no work before CPT is authorized on a new I-20. It tells you what’s actually at stake.

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Answers — with the one next step

A grounded answer and the single action that matters today (email your DSO), then it routes you deeper only if your case needs it.

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06

Keeps your case current

Everything lands in your data room. New documents and approaching deadlines trigger an automatic re-check — and nothing leaves your machine.

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Your data room lives on your machine

The extension keeps your documents, timeline, and a facts source-of-truth in a local vault — on your computer, not a server. Guardian reads it every time you ask, so every answer stays grounded in your real record.

1

Local-first, by default

Your I-20, EAD, and returns — and the facts extracted from them — sit in a vault on your machine. The extension reads them in place; nothing is uploaded unless you explicitly share it.

2

The agent keeps it current

Drop in a new document and Guardian extracts the fields, updates your source-of-truth, and re-runs the affected checks — no dashboard to maintain, nothing to re-enter.

3

Just ask, inside Claude

No separate app to open. Type /guardian in Claude and it answers from your own timeline, deadlines, and risks — pulled straight from your record, not a generic FAQ.

The most popular tax software is defaulting you into mistakes

TurboTax cannot file Form 1040-NR at all. Other software often defaults you to the wrong form. One wrong default cascades into:

$1.5M+
potential penalty exposure
from one wrong default in your tax software
50% of your foreign savings
Family bank accounts abroad over $10K? TurboTax defaults to "No."
FBAR
$25,000 per year, retroactively
Foreign-owned LLC? Required every year, even with $0 revenue.
Form 5472
25% of every family transfer
Parents sent money for tuition? Over $100K requires reporting.*
Form 3520
Your visa status contradicted
Filing as a resident when you’re not. Affects future applications.
Wrong form
$10,000+ in additional penalties
Foreign assets over $50K need a separate form from FBAR.
FATCA
*Form 3520, FBAR, and FATCA apply only if you are a US tax resident (meet the Substantial Presence Test). Guardian checks this for you.
From the courts
$10.9M
Mukhi v. Commissioner
Form 3520 penalties upheld for unreported foreign trusts. Constitutional challenges rejected.
Tax Court, Nov 2024
$2.72M
Bittner v. United States
FBAR penalties across 272 accounts. Supreme Court reduced to $50K per report.
Supreme Court, Feb 2023
$91K
Huang v. United States
TurboTax told her foreign gifts don't need reporting. IRS assessed $91K in Form 3520 penalties. Court ruled TurboTax reliance may be reasonable cause.
N.D. California, Ongoing

Guardian finds what your tax software missed.

We check your documents, surface hidden risks, and tell you what to fix.

INTEGRATIONS

Guardian, wherever you already work

Ask Guardian questions from your chat apps, or connect it directly to your daily AI agent — same data room, same 23 tools, two surfaces.

Local-first. The data room lives on your machine — your filings never leave your device.

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CHAT · OPENCLAW

Compliance in your chat

WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack — any platform you already use via OpenClaw. Best for fast questions and alerts on the go.

"Check my compliance status"
"When are my deadlines?"
"Do I need to file FBAR?"
openclaw skills install guardian-compliance
then paste your Guardian token.
AGENT · MCP

Your daily agent, compliance-aware

The Claude Desktop app, Claude Code, and Codex CLI — Guardian as 23 MCP tools right where you work. Best for document triage, case templates, form filing, and Gmail.

"Check this folder against the H-1B template"
"Generate my Form 8843"
"Search Gmail for IRS notices"
Paste to your agent:
Install Guardian MCP by following https://guardiancompliance.app/AGENTS.md
Set up in 60 seconds
Full install instructions for both surfaces, copy-paste config for every host, plus the one-line "let your agent do it" flow.