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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 an evidence-readiness platform built on Lean Six Sigma, explainability, and zero-trust security.
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
Leigh Anne owns the process. A Lean Six Sigma 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 — not a slogan pasted onto a chatbot.
Co-founder · Engineering, development, and security
Tanner owns the system. A disabled veteran with combined Active Duty and civil service, he is principal engineer for architecture, development, and security — including zero-trust design, Azure Government readiness, auditability, and the Evidence Gate that executes the methodology. He currently serves as a professor in the IT industry 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.
Operations
Jacob operationalizes the mission — pilots, partner conversations, and the discipline required to take evidence-readiness from doctrine to a system government can actually run.
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.
Leigh Anne Bryson’s Black Belt discipline: attack the defect where it originates, rather than adding inspection at the end of the line. Tanner Tobey builds the engineering and security controls that make that discipline executable.
| Lean Six Sigma | 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.
