Commander for Advocates · for VA-accredited agents, attorneys & VSOs
Every page of the C-file read. Every finding checkable in seconds.
Time back on big files
The reading runs on machine time, not staff time: a median 13 min for a 1,415-page imported file.
Every page read, and checkable
Scanned pages included, to the last page. Search hits and cited answers open on the page they came from, so your staff can check them in seconds.
Points you to the highest-value work
Sort the caseload by your own back-pay and fee estimate, and see the issues the record raises and the conditions never claimed.
No card to start$20 per veteran workedStaff logins free
Hundreds of veterans' cases worked by accredited representatives on VA Claim Commander.
The console itself, on a sample practice — click the tabs. Every name and record is synthetic.
- pages read in one C-file
- 16,389pages read in one C-file
- VA rating codes built in
- 729VA rating codes built in
Under a signed BAA
Client records are stored encrypted on AWS under a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement.
Your office only
Each organization sees only its own veterans.
Never trains AI
Client files are never sold and never used to train AI.
Your letterhead
Delivered documents carry your branding, not ours.
Built by a veteran, for the people who represent veterans. — Mike Roberts, PhD · Founder · Disabled veteran
How it works on a real file
From upload to your review.
Step 1
Upload the whole file
Drop in the eFolder ZIP or one big PDF. Bring a caseload over from a spreadsheet, then upload files row by row on the roster.
Step 2
Every page gets read
The AI in Commander for Advocates reads every page, scanned pages included, to the last page. Exact duplicates, blank pages and short VA paperwork are set aside and listed. A file it cannot open is named on the case so you can fix it.
Step 3
A claim card for each condition
Each condition found gets a card: diagnosis, treatment, and what is still missing. If the read did not record something, the card names the pages in the file that look like it, so nothing is called missing that the file may hold.
Step 4
Forms filled from the record
21-22a, 20-0995, 20-0996 and 10182 come filled from the case. The veteran reviews and e-signs them on one link.
Step 5
You review and decide
Nothing is filed for you. You open the pages, check the findings, and sign off.
We can't speed up VA, or how fast a client sends records or signs forms. The work that's yours as the accredited rep is where the time comes back.
Private DBQs checked when they arrive
Upload a DBQ a private provider filled in and the case checks the clinician block VA needs to accept it: printed name and title, date signed, NPI and license. If one looks missing, you get a note to check it before you file, while the provider can still fix it. When the block is complete, the DBQ part of that condition's provider request closes on its own.
A signature does not come through in the text we read, so that one is yours to check by eye. When a form cannot be read clearly, the check says nothing rather than guess. VA's own exams are never judged.
The numbers
Measured on real files.
Read the file and list the conditions, per 1,000 pages
With Commander for Advocates: Median 7 min (90th percentile 1 hr 1 min) for a file read right away. Median 10 min (90th percentile 55 min) in the background queue used for caseload imports. Every page is then searchable, so any finding can be checked against the file.
By hand (estimate): 16 hours 40 min at 60 pages an hour (an assumption).
Read a decision letter
With Commander for Advocates: Median 74 sec (90th percentile 3 min) per letter: each condition it decided, routed to a review lane.
By hand (estimate): 4 min to read a 4-page letter (the median we read) at the same pace, before any notes.
98.8% of pages searchable
98.8% of uploaded pages hold text you can search, scanned pages included through text recognition.
43% of exam pages in the back half
Of VA exam form pages found inside long files, 43% sat in the back half of their document. Key pages turn up anywhere, so the whole file gets read.
Measured across real files on the platform, October 28 to November 1, 2026. File reads: first upload to last page read, uploads of 100 pages or more, per 1,000 pages. Letters: start to finished read. Medians, with the 90th percentile. By-hand times are estimates from a reading pace, 60 pages an hour unless you change it, which is an assumption, not a standard. Draft times are not shown because we do not record them yet.
Measured across real files on the platform, records uploaded September 1 to October 31, 2026: real cases only, not sample cases or our own documents. Exam pages are pages that print the Disability Benefits Questionnaire title near the top, in documents of 100 pages or more. This shows how much of a file can be searched and where key pages sit, not how often a finding is right; that is why search hits and cited answers open on the page they came from, and a person reviews what it finds.
Your numbers
What the saved time means.
Take on more veterans with the staff you have, or give your staff the time back for other work.
Our estimate: a typical office could take on about a quarter more veterans with the same staff. Put in your own numbers below.
At 150 pages an hour, 20 new veterans a month at 1,415 pages each is about 189 hours of reading by hand. Checking the platform's findings instead, at 2 hours a case, is about 40 hours.
- 1. More veterans, same staff
- About 5 more
- About 25% more veterans, same staff.
- veterans a month in the same staff hours, counting 25 hours of other work on every case.
- 2. Or hours back for your staff
- 149 hours
- a month, about 18.6 eight-hour working days, for other work instead of page-by-page reading.
Your inputs, not our measurements. The platform's reading runs on machine time (a median 13 min for a 1,415-page imported file), not staff time. Not a promise of revenue or results.
Plug your own pace into the C-file estimator
Price
$20 per veteran, per month you work them.
A case waiting on VA costs nothing. Staff logins are free. First 30 days: veteran fees capped at $500.
The first 2,500 pages per veteran are included for life; past that, 2¢ a page, once.
Questions
Straight answers.
Who is Commander for Advocates for?
VA-accredited claims agents, accredited attorneys, and VSO representatives working more than one veteran at a time. One agent or twenty — staff logins are free, and you pay per veteran worked.
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