How AI Helped My VA Situation And Probably Saved My Life

Using AI to sort out my VA situation was a total game changer.

I just wanted to find one simple service or a trust worthy person that would just take all my medical records and just do all the work - find all the conditions I should claim, put the case together with clear arguments, give me clear instructions on what to do next etc. I assumed this was just basic stuff that would be handled by the army or a civilian or a service somewhere.

What I discovered leaving the Army was that this does not exist. There simply is no person or service you can go to (and trust to do it) that will diligently crawl through all your files and records and set you straight.

I left the Army with my paperwork pretty squared away. My exit medical exams were fairly straightforward, or thats how it felt they went.

But my VA claim came back with tons of obvious errors. The most frustrating part was that all my worst conditions were almost totally disregarded, while other lesser issues became major ratings. It took years to sort it all out.

Then I got cancer and round two with the VA started.

After another two years of correcting obvious VA errors while recovering from major treatment, trying to make sure we had medical coverage, I had enough.

AI was my savior.

I found the challenge with AI is that you really only get good results when you give it a properly built database. It can definitely help with general guidance, but to make it review your files properly, it takes a ton of work. Don’t take my word for it - just try and drop a 10mb pdf into ChatGPT.

I spent a few weeks converting all my medical history into a readable database that was built so my AI could read and analyze it for me. Man I was totally shocked with the outcome.

All the BS vanished, all the 'expert' VA scam artist nonsense became obvious. In about 15 minutes the AI had crawled my entire medical history dating back to the day I entered the Army and pointed out all the errors (there was lots), things I had not claimed that I should have, where the VA screwed up, how to make it better.

Not only that, but it pointed out a lot of potential problems I should be on the lookout for that were related to conditions present in my records. AI figures this out because it's great at pattern recognition and is reading and learning medical information posted in scientific and medical journals. No wonder I got cancer. (Just to be clear, our services don't provide medical or legal advice!)

With AI I got everything I needed from a few well developed prompts and a lot of work building the database (it was worth it). I submitted all the claims to the VA and my entire situation was resolved. My family is taken care of and we have some breathing room.

The truth is that AI is coming in a big way to really help veterans out and I want to deliver on it, that's why I founded this company - but it takes work to apply AI properly.

Statistically veterans live 10 years less than the general population - we are by definition "totally eff'd".

We should not have to fight the VA every step of the way and waste what valuable time we have left sorting through the red tape.