Claims Wingman reads your VA letters and medical records, builds a board of every condition, flags the problems that get claims denied, and drafts your statements and forms — entirely on your own computer. No account. No email. No company reading your file. Built by a veteran who got tired of watching vets get charged for help that should be free.
There’s also a wingman chat that knows your entire case — and it’s deliberately not a yes-man. If your memory and your records disagree, it sides with the records and shows you exactly where. A tool that just agrees with you would help you build a claim the VA rater’s copy of your file contradicts.
This isn’t a promise buried in fine print — it’s how the app is built. Claims Wingman is a single file that runs in your web browser. There is no server behind it. This is the complete privacy policy:
The AI reading runs on your own Claude API key from Anthropic — a few dollars of credit processes an entire case, paid by you directly to Anthropic, under your account, at your control. The only network connection the app ever makes is from your browser to api.anthropic.com. Your SSN, date of birth, and address are never included in anything sent to the AI; they’re stamped onto your forms locally. Anthropic’s handling of API traffic is governed by their privacy policy.
Because everything lives in your browser, backups are your job: the Save Case button exports your whole file as one portable backup. The app reminds you.
This app comes with zero support — no help desk, no email, nobody to call. In exchange, it’s free, private, and it explains itself: the Start Here tab is the manual, and every button says what it does. Three rules make it work:
1. Feed it everything. The app only knows what’s in your uploaded records. If a fact isn’t in a document, it’s treated as unproven — because that’s exactly how the VA rater will treat it.
2. Verify everything. It organizes and drafts; you read every field before anything gets filed. Use current forms from VA.gov, always.
3. Your VSO is your human support. For filing and for questions, take your organized packet to a county VSO, DAV, VFW, or American Legion service officer. They’re accredited, they’re free by law, and a vet who walks in organized is the easiest client they’ll see all week. The app’s Get Help tab has every number — including the ones that matter at 2 a.m.
Alongside the app, we host a free VA Disability Compensation Dashboard built from the VA’s own FY 2025 published data: every county in the country on a map, ratings from 0% to 100%, and the full national picture in one searchable page. This is public information — published by the VA itself, paid for by all of us, and every taxpayer and every veteran has the right to see it. Nothing in it identifies any individual; it is the program’s own scoreboard.
This is not welfare. This is not a handout.
It is compensation — payment for the health and earning capacity your service cost you.
That’s not a slogan, it’s the plain legal fact: Congress built disability compensation as an obligation the country owes, taken on the day it accepted what your service would cost you. The knee that got wrecked at 22 doesn’t stop billing you at 50 — the rating is the country finally paying its share of that bill.
If you’ve been putting off filing because it feels like taking something, look at the map first. Millions of veterans, in every county in America, at every rating level, are already receiving what they earned. Your neighbors are on this map. You can’t be uniquely weak for doing what millions of your brothers and sisters already did — file for what you earned.
It opens right in your browser — nothing to install. Want to keep it? It’s a single file: right-click the page and “Save As,” and it works offline forever. Same rules as everything here: built from official VA data, no tracking, free.
Too many companies and channels make their money keeping veterans confused about a process that free, accredited help already exists for. I built this with the help of Claude to push the other way: get your evidence straight, teach you how the process actually works, and point you to the free human help — then get out of your way.
If it helps even a few vets get what they earned, it was worth every hour. This one’s our way of saying thank you for your service.
— Craig Stahlke · U.S. Air Force veteran · Hangar9 Labs
Pass it on. The whole app is one file — email it to a buddy, put it on a thumb drive, share claimswingman.com. It costs nothing to give away, which is the point.