Seed closed · backed by Black Nova Ventures, Antler, and Antipodean Capital

Equitable care through trusted AI.

Bella Sláinte, pronounced BELLA SLAWN-cha. Irish for (health).

We build one evidence engine, and point it at the schemes that decide a person’s outcome on documents. Our first build is BellaAssist, in market now in the NDIS.

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Backed, credentialed, in partnership

Black Nova VenturesLead seed investor

AntlerSeed backer

Antipodean CapitalSeed backer

Stanford HAI · 2026Founder, Advanced AI Leadership Program

Stanford GSB · 2025Founder, Harnessing AI for Breakthrough Innovation

IAPP AI Governance ProfessionalCredentialed leadership

Monash UniversityResearch partner, CRC-P Round 19

Why this exists

Ask a carer what a plan review is like.

Hell. One word. Hell.

Wendy, mother and carer, on preparing for a plan review

The re-telling

Project managing your own health and disability is complex and exhausting. Being asked to tell the whole history again, to someone who was not in the room, is retraumatising. It happens at every review, and with every new worker.

The waiting

A decision with no reasoning is a decision you cannot answer. So you wait, and you plan a life around a figure you were never shown the basis for.

The quiet absorption

What a family covers when the plan falls short is written down nowhere. So the next time, it is invisible all over again.

None of this is unlawful, and none of it is anyone's bad faith. It is simply invisible, and invisible is what a family cannot prepare for. The evidence going in is the one part anyone can control, and it is the part almost nobody checks before it is lodged.

The category

Evidence intelligence, not another provider system.

Software in this sector serves the provider: rostering, billing, workforce, claims. None of it touches the thing the funding decision actually turns on, which is whether the clinical evidence in a person’s file is complete, internally consistent, and legible against the rules that will judge it.

That layer is unowned. It is also the layer with the most leverage, because a document that fails the rule set fails quietly and the person carries the consequence for the length of a plan.

The one engine

One engine, decoding the rule books.

We build for schemes where a person’s outcome depends on documents, and where those documents are judged against a written rule set. Access turns on reports from many providers, in different formats, written for different purposes. Assembling and testing that evidence falls to the people with the least capacity to do it.

Step one

Consolidate

Ingest the whole file at once and type every document against a defined taxonomy, rather than reading each one in isolation.

Step two

Assess

Grade evidence quality and completeness, and flag where two documents contradict each other about the same need.

Step three

Map

Place every finding against the controls and clauses of the regime. The rulebook is encoded by hand, not inferred by the model.

Across government systems

Swap the rulebook. Keep the engine.

Every statutory scheme that decides outcomes on documents has the same shape: a person holding an entitlement, an evidence pack tested against a written rulebook, and a decision that can be appealed. The rulebook is the only part that changes, and we encode it by hand.

Built · in market · we paid for it

NDIS

208 controls across 8 domains, 71 document types, 6 submission types, encoded from the Act. BellaAssist is the first build and the first proof. When Act 66 commenced on 27 August, the hotfix was in stage inside a week, including replacing the support catalogue from 27 items to the official 972.

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Aged care

The Aged Care Act 2024 and the Strengthened Standards, roughly 500,000 assessments a year. The algorithm arrived here first: the Integrated Assessment Tool went live in November 2025, and the NDIS version starts on 1 April 2027. We are the alternative that already exists in the scheme next door.

Same shape

Legal aid

A person holding an entitlement, an evidence pack tested against a written test, and a decision that can be appealed. The documents are gathered by the people least equipped to gather them, which is the pattern the engine was built for.

Same shape

Workers’ compensation

High-volume medical dispute, cross-report reconciliation, and an auditable evidence trail that has to survive a tribunal.

The test that decides whether this is infrastructure rather than four bespoke builds is what the second rulebook costs against the first. That effort is logged prospectively in the UNSW protocol and will be reported either way. We would rather learn it in a study than in a board meeting.

Bellamed.AI is the clinical pathway for complex medical conditions, run as a separate company so device and quality-system obligations never reach the NDIS product. Its live scope is neurodegenerative monitoring with UNSW.

Why now

The rules are being rewritten around evidence.

Three changes, each defensible on its own, each announced separately. Together they move the whole scheme onto the quality of what is already written in a person’s file.

Since 27 Aug 2026

Only a participant, nominee or guardian can request an early reassessment, and it needs high-grade evidence in front of it before a 90-day statutory clock starts. Silence at 90 days is a deemed refusal.

From 1 Oct 2026

Targeted budget resets force participants and providers to justify ongoing core and capacity-building supports as plans roll over.

From 1 Apr 2027

Budgets are calculated from standardised support-needs assessments. The evidence already in the file determines whether a deeper, targeted assessment is granted, which makes upfront evidence quality the determinant of funding access.

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The product we are in market with

BellaAssist

Evidence intelligence for the NDIS. It reads the reports already in a participant’s file, grades them against the scheme’s criteria, and shows what is missing and where two reports disagree. $499 per participant, per year.

Participants can create their own account from 1 November 2026. Until then, request access and we set it up with you.

Get started → bellaassist.au

Three hearts, one shamrock. One for each care system we build in: NDIS, aged care, clinical trials.

Why Bella Sláinte

A company that started with a heart.

Bella Sláinte began with my own cardiac immune response, which upended my life and taught me how Australia's regulated care systems really work. Not by severity of need. By quality of evidence preparation. Two people with the same condition can walk into a plan review and come out with very different funding, depending on whether they had a skilled advocate helping them translate their experience into the language the system requires.

That gap is what Bella Sláinte exists to close. Bella is for my two daughters. Sláinte is the Irish toast to health. The shamrock of three hearts is the care we carry: for the participant whose submission we help prepare, for the coordinator carrying fifty of them at once, and for the system that needs to stay sustainable for the people it was built to serve.

Jessica Martin · Founder & CEO · Bella Sláinte Pty Ltd

Let's talk.

Bella Sláinte is actively engaging with prospective customers, partners, investors, and regulatory bodies across the Australian care sector. We respond to every thoughtful inbound message within five working days.

jessica@bellaassist.au · Jessica on LinkedIn

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