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Our mission

Veterans lose claims they should win.
We change that.

VA Claim Commander exists because too many veterans lose claims they should win — not because their case is weak, but because their evidence package doesn't speak the language VA raters evaluate against.

Dr. Michael Roberts, founder of VA Claim CommanderMike Roberts, PhD, in uniform — U.S. Air Force Combat Communications veteran, Operation Southern Watch

The founder

Dr. Mike Roberts

U.S. Air Force veteran · information security for a career

First claim to decision
9 monthsFirst claim to decision
Ohio ANG · Combat Comms
1997–2004Ohio ANG · Combat Comms
IT — Information Systems Security
PhDIT — Information Systems Security

Veteran-Owned Business · verified by the Texas Veterans Commission · VEP-099193

VA diagnostic codes indexed
729VA diagnostic codes indexed
codes with rating levels, quoted
321codes with rating levels, quoted
research sources, PubMed-verified
638research sources, PubMed-verified
pages in our largest test file
16,397pages in our largest test file

How it works

A three-phase AI pipeline, grounded in the law.

Every document is reasoned against a comprehensive legal corpus — published BVA and CAVC decisions, Title 38 of the CFR, and the M21-1 adjudication manual — then stress-tested before you ever see it.

  1. Phase 1 · Draft

    Document Creator

    AI drafts your nexus letters and statements from your verified claim profile — mapping symptoms to the specific 38 CFR Part 4 rating criteria for your conditions.

  2. Phase 2 · Audit

    Adversarial Rater Audit

    An adversarial AI rater runs a multi-pass audit: factual trace, contradiction check, regulatory-consistency check, and a credibility review — modeled on what a VA rater checks.

  3. Phase 3 · Optimize

    Revision & Optimization

    Every rater finding is applied back into the draft. Critical issues trigger automatic regeneration, so the package you review is already hardened against the audit.

Grounded Intelligence

CFR 38

Diagnostic codes & rating criteria

M21-1

VA adjudication procedures

BVA & CAVC case law

Published Board & Court decisions

Every draft is reasoned against CFR 38, M21-1, and published case law and audited by an adversarial rater pass — so the evidentiary standard is built in, not bolted on.

Dr. Mike Roberts, founder — deployed in desert uniform

Deployed · U.S. Air Force

Ohio Air National Guard · Combat Communications

The founder

Dr. Mike Roberts

Mike is a disabled Air Force veteran (Ohio Air National Guard, Combat Communications, 1997–2004) who won his own VA claim on private medical evidence — and built VA Claim Commander so every veteran gets documentation built to the same standard. His civilian career is in information security, and that privacy-first discipline shapes how your records are handled.

VA Claim Commander is a verified Veteran-Owned Business, certified by the Texas Veterans Commission (VEP-099193).

Verified member of the Veteran Owned Business directory.

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Let's be clear

What VA Claim Commander is not.

We are not a VSO, law firm, or VA-accredited representative. You stay in command of your claim, and we recommend working alongside a free, VA-accredited VSO.

Free to startNo bait-and-switchNo guaranteed outcomes — ever

We do

  • Build the documentation that makes claims stronger — nexus letters, personal statements, and buddy statements
  • Structure them the way raters evaluate evidence
  • Keep you in command of your claim

We don't

  • Act as a VSO, law firm, or VA-accredited representative
  • File, submit, present, or prosecute claims
  • Guarantee an outcome — ever
Now available

Commander Health

Licensed clinicians review your records and sign nexus letters — closing the gap between a strong draft and a signed medical opinion.

Your records. Licensed clinicians. Your corner.

  1. Step 1A draft from your recordsDrafted to the standard a rater weighs, from your records and your own words.
  2. Step 2A licensed clinician reviews itThey read the evidence, and may edit before they decide.
  3. Step 3Signed — if the evidence supports itA signed opinion the VA weighs, not an unsigned draft.

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Generate your documents, review everything, and decide when you're ready. Free to start — no catch.

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Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Your records get HIPAA-aligned protection, and anything you choose to save is encrypted and stored under a signed HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS. We're a software tool — not a HIPAA covered entity — and your data is never sold or used to train AI models.

VA Claim Commander is a self-service software tool — not a VSO, law firm, or VA-accredited representative. It does not file, submit, present, or prosecute claims on anyone's behalf, and does not provide legal or medical advice. We recommend working with a free, VA-accredited VSO — find one near you.