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Origin
We didn't start with AI. We started with the defects.
VBB was not designed from a requirements document. It was designed from the failure points.
VetBattleBuddy was founded with one clear purpose: to help U.S. veterans and Tribal members navigate complex systems with greater clarity, dignity, and trust. We are not a chatbot that guesses. We are not a claims filing service. We are the evidence operating system for raters, VSOs, and government agencies — first-pass speed, decision-grade accuracy, humans in command.
Lean Six Sigma + engineering + lived veteran experience = Vet Battle Buddy™
Combat service → injury and exposure → military records → treatment → transition → VA → disability evidence → examinations → benefits → appeals and changes → family and caregiver → lifelong veteran needs. Along that path: fragmented records, disconnected organizations, evidence gaps, repeated storytelling, waiting, uncertainty, and rework.
Map the value stream → identify defects → identify non-value-added activity → identify handoff failures → measure rework → establish CTQs → determine root causes → error-proof upstream processes → establish evidence controls → increase first-pass yield.
Principals
Co-founder · Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Leigh Ann owns the process. A Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with more than thirty years serving the military and federal operating environments, she applied first-pass yield, defect taxonomy, and upstream error-proofing to the military-to-veteran evidence lifecycle. Evidence First-Pass Yield™ is her operating methodology — the engine that maximizes A Promise for a Promise with direct ROI for the people who use the system. It is not a slogan pasted onto a chatbot.
Co-founder · Engineering, development, and security · CISSP
Tanner owns the system. CISSP-certified disabled veteran — combined Active Duty and civil service — and principal engineer for Zero Trust architecture, Azure Government readiness, and the Evidence Gate. He teaches DevOps and Cyber Security at PC Professor in South Florida. Priorities: God, family, and service to veterans. AI is the enabler. The redesigned process is the product.
Voice and operations
Voice of the Veteran
Tom Asbury's lived experience informs the requirement. A combat veteran whose service includes Somalia (Mogadishu era) and later Iraq and Afghanistan environments, he has spent decades navigating the fragmented military, healthcare, benefits, and civilian systems veterans encounter after service. He identifies the failure points because he lived them. His story defines the problem. It is not used as a marketing prop.
Chief Operating Officer
Jacob is Chief Operating Officer. He turns chaos into order — leadership of products, process, projects, and people, built through quality assurance and senior mobile-application development. At Vet Battle Buddy, he owns pilots, partner conversations, and the operating discipline that takes evidence-readiness from doctrine to a system government can actually run. Data-driven decisions. Humans stay in command.
Integrity is non-negotiable. Discipline, honesty, and doing the right thing even when no one is watching guide how we design, develop, and operate every part of the system.
What the platform covers
Everything else supports that job: connecting health records, coordinating caregivers, surfacing risk to humans, and giving program leaders an audit trail. None of this replaces a clinician, a VSO, or an adjudicator.
Structured claim-building aimed at Evidence First-Pass Yield™ — stronger, cleaner packages before adjudication.
Early-intervention support with human oversight. This is not a crisis line. If you are in crisis, call or text 988, then press 1.
Interoperability that connects claims work to actual health records across systems, with sovereignty-aware protections.
Tools and visibility that help caregivers stay coordinated without compromising veteran privacy.
Direct support with clinical-workflow awareness and mandatory human oversight. Not treatment. Not a crisis line.
Operational visibility, metrics, and audit tools for agencies, tribes, and program leadership.
Leigh Ann Bryson’s Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt discipline: attack the defect where it originates, rather than adding inspection at the end of the line. That is the shortest path to user ROI — and the way VBB keeps A Promise for a Promise. Tanner Tobey builds the engineering and security controls that make the discipline executable.
| Master Black Belt | VBB application |
|---|---|
| First-Pass Yield | Evidence First-Pass Yield™ |
| Defect | Missing, inconsistent, inaccessible, or uncorrelated evidence |
| Rework | Repeated development, exams, records requests, supplemental claims |
| Waiting | Veteran and adjudication delays |
| Handoffs | DoW → DHA → VA → private providers → veteran |
| Process variation | Different evidence quality and claim-development paths |
| Root-cause analysis | Why evidence was not captured, connected, or available |
| Voice of Customer | Veteran, family, adjudicator, clinician |
| CTQ — Critical to Quality | Evidence sufficient, relevant, timely, traceable |
| Poka-yoke | Prevent incomplete evidence packages upstream |
We build for veterans. We design for public trust. We operate with accountability.
VetBattleBuddy is registered on SAM.gov and is actively preparing for FedRAMP Moderate and HIPAA-aligned deployment in regulated environments. That is alignment and preparation — not a completed authorization or certification.
