Claim Playbook · free, no sign-up needed
Your whole claim, mapped into one game plan
Pick your condition and get the whole strategy on one page: the plays to run, the secondary cascade, what a nexus letter contains, the statements to write, and exactly what to file in what order.
Claim Playbook
Printable · no sign-upPick your condition and we'll build your full game plan — the plays to run, what a nexus letter contains, the statements to write, and exactly what to file in what order.
- The plays to runCapture your condition at its true severity, and the secondary conditions it may have caused — each its own claim.
- The cascade, explainedThe conditions the VA commonly links to yours, with the medical reason — so you don't leave a real secondary on the table.
- What to file, in orderFrom Intent to File to the VA.gov screen — the exact sequence, with the secondary pick most people miss.
Ready to build it?
The plan, running on your board.
Commander drafts your personal and buddy statements, maps your symptoms to the rating criteria, and assembles the supporting documents around your plan. Every claim in the plan sits on one board, with what it has and the next move.
- The increase and each secondary as its own claim
- Your Intent to File date, kept in view
- One button for the next move on each claim
Veteran, here's where you stand.
70%
2 of 7 rated
Filed Jun 2, 2026
Holds your start date until Jun 2, 2027.
$1,808.45/mo
At 70%, filing single. 2026 VA pay table.
5claims
1 ready to file · 4 need work · 2 approved
Your claims
1 ready to file · 4 need work
Working on · 5
Dollar figures use the December 1, 2025 VA pay table at the level shown. VA decides every rating.
Rated by VA · 2
- PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)Service-connected70%
- Left shoulder strainService-connected10%
Your claims, on your body
Where each of your claims sits, and what your records show that you haven't claimed yet. The colours show where things stand today — not what VA will decide.
- 5 in progress
- 2 granted
- 3 in your records, not claimed yet
All of it
- Right knee pain — in progress
- Obstructive sleep apnea — in progress
- Lower back strain — in progress
- Left ankle sprain — in progress
- Migraines — in progress
- Left shoulder strain — granted at 10%
- PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) — granted at 70%
- Tinnitus — in your records, not claimed yet — worth a look
- Plantar fasciitis — in your records, not claimed yet — worth a look
- Hypertension — in your records, not claimed yet — worth a look
The order of march
4 queuedA person who saw it happen — or watched it change you — can put on the record what your file never captured. We write it in their voice; they read it and sign.
The medical opinion connecting your condition to your service — the piece of the file a rater weighs most heavily, written out of your own statement and records.
The in-service event is the hinge of the whole claim, and you are the only person who can name it. A rough month and a place is enough to work with.
An unsigned opinion is a draft. Signed by a licensed clinician, it becomes medical evidence the VA has to weigh.
Ready to build it?
Turn the plan into documents
Commander drafts your personal and buddy statements, maps your symptoms to the rating criteria, and assembles the supporting documents around your plan.