What problem?
Claims are more complex and evidence-intensive than the processing speed story suggests.
A Promise for a Promise
Evidence First. Decisions Faster. Veterans Better Served.
The evidence operating system for raters, VSOs, and government agencies.
Purpose-built for first-pass speed and decision-grade accuracy. VBB determines the best-fit evidence so a claim can be decided the first time — without replacing the rater, the representative, or the agency.
VBB determines the best fit for faster first-pass decisions.
Master Black Belt process engineering. Direct user ROI. VBB fits the evidence — humans still decide.
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.
A Promise for a Promise • Evidence operating system • Master Black Belt process engineering • Veteran-informed • SAM.gov registered • Azure Government–ready • FedRAMP alignment in progress • HIPAA-ready controls
20 seconds
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?
VBB determines the best-fit evidence for a faster first-pass decision — before the file is already incomplete.
How is it different?
VBB is the evidence operating system — first-pass speed and decision-grade accuracy for raters, VSOs, and agencies. Not a chatbot. Not a filing tool.
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 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
Share of pending claims that 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.
VBB determines the best-fit evidence for a faster first-pass decision: higher-quality inputs → fewer defects → less rework → better adjudicator productivity → veterans better served. Humans stay in command.
Military / health evidence → VBB Evidence Gate → decision-ready claim → VA adjudication.
EFPY is Leigh Ann Bryson’s Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt operating methodology — first-pass yield applied to the military-to-veteran evidence lifecycle — executed in software Tanner Tobey engineered. That is how VBB maximizes A Promise for a Promise: measurable yield, direct ROI for the veteran, the representative, and the adjudicator.
You are not buying AI. You are buying decision-ready evidence.
A Promise for a Promise
VBB determines the best fit for faster first-pass decisions.
Master Black Belt process engineering finds the best-fit evidence path so a first-pass decision can happen. Direct ROI for the user. The adjudicator still decides. The motto is A Promise for a Promise — not decoration.
Veteran and family
Fewer repeat requests. A named next step. Dignity instead of another bounce-back.
VSO and accredited representative
Intake that starts complete. Gaps named before the file is sent downstream.
Government and enterprise
Higher Evidence First-Pass Yield™. Less avoidable development. Decisions that can be defended.
Evidence operating system
An operating system for evidence — not another claims app.
VBB is built for raters, VSOs, and government agencies that need first-pass speed without sacrificing accuracy. It determines the best-fit evidence so a decision can be made the first time. It does not file the claim, assign the rating, or replace the human who decides.
Not a claims app
We do not file, prosecute, or rate a claim.
Not a chatbot
We do not generate missing records or invent a nexus.
The evidence layer
We determine the best-fit evidence for a faster first-pass. Humans stay in command of the decision.
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 owns the Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt operating methodology. Tanner owns engineering, development, and security. Lived combat-veteran experience and operations keep the work honest and executable. The product maximizes A Promise for a Promise with direct ROI for the user — not another AI slogan.
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
Jacob Stevens
Chief Operating Officer
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
Receive more complete packages. VBB does not file claims and does not replace accredited judgment.
VSO adoption pathFor Government
Procurement fast track: capability statement, security overview, and a 90-day bounded pilot.
ProcurementFor 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 pathEvidence Gate
An educational readiness check: mark what you have, see what is typically still missing. It is not live claims AI.
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 | 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 |
Systems
How the system is built
Zero-trust. Fully auditable. AI is the enabler — the redesigned process is the product.
Tanner Tobey, CISSP, engineers the system to the standard expected in high-stakes environments. Leigh Ann’s process is what the software executes. The veteran outcome is the purpose.
- 01Modern frontend and backend architecture
- 02Azure Government–ready foundation
- 03Container orchestration and secure deployment practices
- 04Sovereign AI capabilities with human override
- 05FHIR R4 health data interoperability
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.
Open the Trust CenterNext step