What problem?
Claims are more complex and evidence-intensive than the processing speed story suggests.
Evidence First-Pass Yield™
Evidence First. Decisions Faster. Veterans Better Served.
Vet Battle Buddy™ transforms fragmented military, medical, exposure, and claims evidence into organized, traceable, decision-ready information — before avoidable deficiencies become downstream delays and rework.
Increase Evidence First-Pass Yield™
Find the missing evidence before the adjudicator has to.
We didn't start with AI. We started with the defects.
Leigh Anne Bryson leads Lean Six Sigma. Tanner Tobey leads engineering, development, and security. Humans stay in command.
Veteran-informed • Lean Six Sigma methodology • SAM.gov registered • Azure Government–ready • FedRAMP alignment in progress • HIPAA-ready controls
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Five questions a visitor should not have to hunt for.
Why now?
VA is accelerating adjudication and AI modernization while claim complexity keeps rising.
What does VBB change?
Evidence readiness before adjudication — not more guessing after a file is already incomplete.
How is it different?
Evidence-gated, explainable, auditable, and human-controlled. Not generative guessing.
What should I do?
Veterans start evidence readiness. Government requests a pilot. Partners request a briefing.
The claims mission has changed
VA is processing claims faster. VBB helps make the claims entering that system more decision-ready.
Faster processing alone is not enough. The next frontier is higher-quality evidence entering the system. Do not sell yesterday's backlog. Sell tomorrow's complexity.
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
Of pending claims are supplemental claims.
The opportunity is no longer simply processing more claims. It is improving the quality of evidence entering the claims ecosystem.
Figures as reported by VA, July 2026. These are not VBB results.
Operating doctrine
Evidence First-Pass Yield™
The percentage of claims entering adjudication with sufficient, relevant, traceable, and properly organized evidence to progress without avoidable evidence-development rework attributable to submission deficiencies.
Higher-quality claim inputs → fewer evidence defects → less rework → better adjudicator productivity → faster defensible decisions → better veteran experience.
Military / health evidence → VBB Evidence Gate → decision-ready claim → VA adjudication.
EFPY is Leigh Anne Bryson’s Lean Six Sigma–derived operating methodology — first-pass yield applied to the military-to-veteran evidence lifecycle — executed in software Tanner Tobey engineered.
You are not buying AI. You are buying decision-ready evidence.
Evidence orchestration
VBB is the evidence layer — not another claims app.
Today's rework loopVeteran → incomplete evidence → VA → development → request → veteran → missing records → examination → development → rework → decision.
Evidence-first pathService evidence is preserved, connected, and gated for readiness before it becomes adjudication workload.
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Service
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Event / exposure / injury
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Military health record
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EHR / private medical evidence
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Diagnosis
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Chronology
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Service connection / nexus evidence
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Functional impairment
Gate
VBB Evidence Readiness Gate
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DBQ / supporting documentation
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Decision-ready claim package
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VA adjudication
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 Anne Bryson and Tanner Tobey. Leigh Anne owns the Lean Six Sigma operating methodology. Tanner owns engineering, development, and security. Lived combat-veteran experience and operations keep the work honest and executable.
Read the origin storyChoose your path
Different visitors. Different next steps.
For Veterans
Start evidence readiness. See what the gate will and will not do. This is not a filing mill and not a crisis line.
Start Evidence ReadinessFor Government
Mission outcomes, measurable performance, and manageable implementation risk. VBB does not replace the adjudicator.
Government / EnterpriseFor Partners
VSOs, tribes, clinicians, and investors: request a briefing. The $2B+ economic thesis stays in government materials until it is independently substantiated.
Category
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 | yes |
| Longitudinal | no | no | limited | target |
| Explainable evidence chain | varies | weak | system | yes |
| Pre-submission gap detection | manual | unreliable | downstream | yes |
| Human-controlled | yes | varies | yes | yes |
| Zero-trust architecture | varies | varies | yes | yes |
| Cross-lifecycle vision | no | no | agency | yes |
THE FLIGHT DECK
How the doctrine is operated
Stations for evidence, crisis visibility, health interoperability, caregivers, mental health, and command oversight. Evidence readiness is the commercial core. Everything else is in support of it.
Systems
ENGINEERING THE MISSION
Precision-built. Zero-trust. Fully auditable. Powered by JonAI.
Tanner Tobey engineers the system with the same discipline expected in high-stakes environments. AI is the enabler. Leigh Anne’s redesigned process is the product. The veteran outcome is the purpose.
- 01Modern frontend and backend architecture
- 02Azure Government–ready foundation
- 03Container orchestration and secure deployment practices
- 04Sovereign AI capabilities
- 05FHIR R4 health data interoperability
GitHub repository TBirdPIT/VetBattleBuddy.ai is listed and private. The mission blueprint is listed and kept private. You will need permission to view or clone it.
Trust
Built for high-stakes environments — stated precisely
- Zero-trust architecture
- HIPAA-ready controls and encryption — readiness, not a claim of current HIPAA covered-entity certification
- FedRAMP Moderate alignment in progress — not an authorization to operate
- Designed for Azure Government — not a statement that production is already authorized there
- Immutable audit logging
- Tribal sovereignty protections
- Full explainability with human oversight
Precision builds credibility with federal buyers. We do not describe alignment as certification.
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