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Veteran
No account is required. Do not send medical files, a DD-214, or an SSN through this site.
A Promise for a Promise
Evidence First. Decisions Faster. Veterans Better Served.
A free educational check of claim readiness. Not an approval system.
Answer ten questions. See an Evidence Gap Heat Map and a Mission Brief. No account. No medical upload. A person still decides what to file.
Start with what you can show today.
The result is educational. It is not a rating, a filing, or legal advice.
We didn't start with AI. We started with the defects.
Leigh Ann Bryson, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Tanner Tobey, engineering, development, and security. Humans stay in command.
Educational assessment • No medical upload • Humans stay in command • Registered on SAM.gov • Not a VA approval system
Public path
From Confusion to Claim Readiness
The live path on this website is educational. It does not upload medical records, file a claim, predict a rating, or replace an accredited representative.
- 01Veteran
- 02Claim Readiness Assessment
- 03Evidence Gap Heat Map
- 04Mission Brief
- 05Claim Readiness Assessment
- 06Human Review
Live
Claim Readiness Assessment
Ten educational questions about documentation preparedness. Not legal advice and not a VA decision.
Live
Evidence Gap Heat Map
Gaps are named from the answers you gave. The map does not read a claims file or a medical record.
Live
Mission Brief
A plain-language summary of the educational result and a next step a human can review.
Live
Claim Readiness Assessment
Ten educational questions. No account. No medical upload. Not a rating and not a filing.
Required
Human Review
A person decides what to file. This website does not rate, approve, or submit a claim.
Capabilities
What is live, and what is still design.
Headlines describe the intent. The status on each card is the repository reality. Nothing here approves a claim.
Available
Claim Readiness Assessment
Answer ten educational questions.
No account. No medical upload. Not legal advice and not a VA decision.
Available
Evidence Gap Heat Map
See gaps from the answers you gave.
The map does not read a claims file or a medical record.
Available
Mission Brief
Read a plain-language summary.
A person can review it. It is not a filing and not a rating.
Available
Condition checklist
Mark what you have for a listed condition.
The checklist shows what you did not mark. A written explanation is not guaranteed.
Coming soon
A little of what the full system is for.
These are the public outcomes. They are not live on this website. This page does not publish how they are built. No date. No rating. No filing.
Educational example from the live assessment. Not a real claim, not a rating, and not the unreleased system.
Not live
Follow a statement back to its source
A reviewer should be able to see where a line came from.
That is the point of the full system. This website still does not take medical files, and it does not verify a record.
Not live
One readiness picture for the representative
The veteran starts it. The representative can continue it.
Shared readiness work for VSOs and review teams. It would not replace an accredited representative, and it is not a live product here.
Not live
A longer brief, after the free check
The ten-question check stays free.
A fuller report, and a way to keep the journey in one place, come after that first result. Still not a filing and not a rating.
Not live
The person still decides
Assisted work stays advisory.
Official determinations stay with VA, the accredited representative, and the clinician. The full system does not become the adjudicator.
20 seconds
Five questions a visitor should not have to hunt for.
What problem?
Claims are more complex and evidence-intensive than the processing speed story suggests.
Why now?
VA is accelerating adjudication and AI modernization while claim complexity keeps rising.
What does VBB change?
The public site offers an educational readiness check. It does not decide a claim or complete a file.
How is it different?
It is an educational assessment and a condition checklist. Not a chatbot that files, and not an operating system for agencies.
What should I do?
Veterans run the free Heat Map. VSOs open the adoption path. Government uses the procurement fast track. Investors open investor relations.
The claims mission has changed
VA reports on its own processing. Those figures are not VetBattleBuddy results.
This website does not change VA speed and does not measure claim outcomes. The free assessment shows self-reported gaps only.
68.6
days
VA average disability-related claim completion, July 2026.
200%
increase
Growth over ten years in original claims with eight or more medical issues.
2×
volume
Individual disabilities claimed have doubled in five years.
63%
pending
Share of pending claims that are supplemental claims.
Use the figures as context for the mission. Do not read them as company performance.
Figures as reported by VA, July 2026. These are not VBB results.
What is live
Claim readiness you can use today
The public site offers a free educational assessment and a condition checklist. It does not measure claim outcomes and it does not publish a yield.
You can see self-reported gaps and a brief to take to a person. That is the product on this website.
Questions you answer → Heat Map or checklist → a brief → a person reviews.
Evidence First-Pass Yield™ is a name for a goal. This website does not calculate it and does not report it.
This is not an approval system and not a filing service.
A Promise for a Promise
An educational result a person can review.
The motto is a commitment to veterans. It is not a measured return. The adjudicator still decides.
Veteran and family
A Heat Map and Mission Brief from your answers. Not a completed claim.
VSO and accredited representative
A veteran may bring that brief. It does not replace your judgment or file the claim.
Government and enterprise
A public educational site and a SAM.gov registration. Not a deployed claims system and not a measured savings claim.
What this site is
An educational readiness check — not a claims system.
You can complete the assessment or the condition checklist. The site does not file a claim, assign a rating, or replace the person who decides.
Not a claims app
We do not file, prosecute, or rate a claim.
Not a chatbot that decides
We do not generate missing records or invent a nexus.
Educational only
The Heat Map and checklist reflect what you mark. A person reviews any next step.
Origin
Built from the battlefield and engineered from the process backward.
We didn't start with AI. We started with the defects.
Vet Battle Buddy™ is led by Leigh Ann Bryson and Tanner Tobey. Leigh Ann is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Tanner leads engineering, development, and security. Those are people, not a claim that this website measures yield or savings.
Read the origin storyWho leads this
Leigh Ann Bryson and Tanner Tobey. Veterans in the work.
Leigh Ann Bryson
Co-founder · Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Tanner Tobey
Co-founder · Engineering, development, and security · CISSP
Tom Asbury
Voice of the Veteran
Choose your path
Different visitors. Different next steps.
For Veterans
Start with the free Evidence Gap Heat Map. See documentation opportunities before you create an account.
Check Claim ReadinessFor VSOs
A veteran can bring the educational Heat Map and Mission Brief. VBB does not file claims and does not replace accredited judgment.
VSO informationFor Government
A capability statement and a security page. No measured pilot is offered on this website.
Procurement informationFor Investors
Category, team, moat, and a diligence path that does not invent ROI on the public site.
Investor relationsFor Tribal partners
Evidence readiness that respects Tribal sovereignty. VBB does not replace Tribal programs or claim Tribal preference it does not have.
Tribal pathLearn the evidence
Plain-language explainers and fictional Mission Briefs. No ratings, no filing, and no account.
Explore educational resourcesEvidence Gate
Mark what you have for a listed condition. See what that public checklist still shows as unmarked. A written explanation is not guaranteed.
Try the Evidence GateCategory
Do not compare VBB to another veteran app. Compare the operating model.
No competitors are named. This is the category definition.
| Capability | Traditional preparation | General AI | Downstream automation | VBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veteran-centered | yes | varies | yes | yes |
| Evidence-first | varies | no | downstream | educational |
| Longitudinal record | no | no | limited | not offered |
| Source-traced file review | varies | weak | system | not offered |
| Self-reported gap check | manual | unreliable | downstream | yes |
| Human-controlled | yes | varies | yes | yes |
| Certified for sensitive systems | varies | varies | varies | not claimed |
| Service-to-VA system | no | no | agency | not offered |
Systems
Built so people can trust the result
Assisted technology supports the work. People remain responsible for official decisions.
Tanner Tobey, CISSP, is responsible for security. Leigh Ann’s process sets the standard the software is meant to serve. The veteran outcome is the purpose.
- 01A public experience that does not ask for medical files
- 02Designed with regulated environments in mind — not an authorization
- 03Careful handling of veteran information
- 04A person can question and set aside assisted output
- 05Health-record connection is not offered on this site
Trust
Designed with security and governance principles
- Human review remains required
- Evidence-readiness support — not a decision
- The public assessment does not accept medical files
- Not a HIPAA certification
- Not a FedRAMP authorization
- Not an authority to operate
- Not a crisis line
Registration on SAM.gov is not a contract and not a certification.
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