Free AI-powered guides for VA disability claims, healthcare, and benefits. No account required. No data collected. No cost to you. Just the information veterans need to get what they earned.
Honest about what this is: The guides are free. The prompts are free. You will need Claude Pro ($20/month from Anthropic) to use them with your uploaded records. That is the AI tool these guides are built for. VeteranUnlocked is not Anthropic and has no financial relationship with them.
Use them in order the first time. Return to individual guides whenever you need them. Everything runs inside one Claude Project that remembers your history.
Create your Claude account, build your Project, run the Memory Builder, and upload your records. Do this once — everything else builds on it.
Build your claims file, prepare for C&P exams, write lay statements, and defend your rating. Honest about what is winnable and what is not.
Secure messaging that builds your claims record, appointment prep, specialist referrals, mental health access, and benefits most veterans never claim.
Four steps. One Project. Everything in one place from your first session to your final rating decision.
Create a free Claude account, build your VA Project, and run the Memory Builder. Claude learns your history once and remembers it every session.
Add your DD-214, service treatment records, VA rating letters, and Blue Button report. Claude audits them against your memory file and identifies what is missing.
Run the prompts. Build lay statements, exam roadmaps, stressor documentation, and a realistic rating strategy. Reviewed and verified by you before anything is filed.
Use the Care Guide to build your medical record through secure messaging. Return to Claims Builder after every exam, decision, or change in your situation.
The VA system was not designed to be easy to navigate. AI does not replace your VSO or attorney — it removes the friction that stops veterans from getting there in the first place.
AI does not file your claim. It does not appear at your hearing. It does not guarantee a rating outcome. Every document Claude produces is reviewed and verified by you before it goes anywhere. You are the veteran. Your VSO files. AI does the heavy lifting between those two things.
If a claim is weak, the guides say so. If 100% P&T is not realistic based on your records, Claude tells you that directly. False hope wastes years and damages credibility on the claims that matter. These guides are built around accuracy, not optimism.
VeteranUnlocked collects nothing. No account, no database, no stored records. Your information goes between you and Anthropic's Claude platform — and stays there. We never see it.
The guides are free. Claude Pro ($20/month from Anthropic) is what powers them. Think of VeteranUnlocked as the instruction manual. Claude Pro is the tool. You subscribe to Anthropic, not to us — and we have no financial relationship with them.
Most veteran-facing resources are either too vague to be useful or too optimistic to be honest. VeteranUnlocked is built differently.
These guides are thorough because the VA system is thorough — and unforgiving if your evidence is not. That has not changed. What has changed is how long it takes you to get there.
Before AI, building a real claims file meant hours buried in medical records trying to find the right page, guessing at what a rating examiner actually needed to see, and walking into appointments without a plan. Veterans wasted appointments asking the wrong questions or not knowing what to ask at all — and a VA provider's job is to treat you based on what you tell them, not to build your case for you. They are not withholding evidence. They are simply not the ones responsible for connecting your symptoms to your claim. That has always been on you.
AI does not remove the work. It removes the wasted motion. It points you toward the right appointment before you walk in, the right words to use once you are there, and the right document to pull when an examiner says the evidence is not in your file. What used to take weeks of trial and error now takes a fraction of that — not because the VA got easier, but because you stopped guessing.
You do not have to follow these guides exactly, in exact order, word for word. Use them as a starting point. Adapt them to your situation. The goal was never to make you follow a script — it was to make sure you walk into every appointment, every exam, and every form with the evidence you have actually earned.
This was built the same way — one veteran testing this against more than one AI tool, comparing what actually worked, throwing out what did not, and rebuilding it until it held up under real use. Nothing here was theoretical. It was tested against an actual claims file, actual appointments, and an actual hearing.
Every guide, every prompt, every framework on this site is free. Share it with every veteran you know. Post it in Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, barracks chat threads — wherever veterans are trying to figure this out.
These guides are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. That means anyone can share or adapt them with credit — but no one is permitted to charge veterans for access to this content.
One Project. Both guides. Everything Claude needs to know about your situation — loaded once and available every session. Start with the Project Setup guide and let the process work.
VeteranUnlocked is an educational guide. We are not a legal service or a claims company. We are not affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Nothing on this site constitutes legal or medical advice. We do not guarantee eligibility, approval, compensation, or ratings. This site helps veterans understand their medical records using AI and identify potential claims to discuss with an accredited representative or pursue independently.