Flagship product · NDIS · co-design active

Meet BellaAssist.

A purpose-built AI assistive technology for the NDIS. Designed from first principles around the scheme's own rules and funding logic, not a generic AI tool adapted for the sector. Built on the Glass Box architecture. Co-designed with the people who use it every day.

What BellaAssist does

Distilling complexity — so the right information reaches the right place.

BellaAssist brings together accessibility, participant consent, portability of records, and carefully governed technology to provide practical guidance for participants, families, and the practitioners and coordinators who support them.

Step one

Upload clinical evidence

Assessments, GP letters, OT reports, and specialist reports are uploaded and automatically classified, quality-scored, and analysed for functional-impact content. A GP letter that describes a diagnosis but not its functional consequences is flagged. The user is told exactly what to ask their clinician to add.

Step two

Map functional impact

A guided, 33-question assessment maps the participant's daily experience to the six criteria of the NDIS Reasonable and Necessary test (s34). The platform detects unhelpful language patterns in real time — deficit framing, medical-model language, overgeneralisation — and suggests functional-impact rewrites that more accurately represent the person's actual support needs.

Step three

Identify evidence gaps

A 208-control readiness engine evaluates the complete evidence portfolio across multiple regulatory domains. Potential gaps are identified and prioritised with specific, actionable recommendations: not "you need more evidence" but "your OT report does not include an ADL baseline score — this is the third most significant gap for this submission type."

Step four

Generate submission-ready content

Once the evidence meets the readiness threshold, the platform synthesises submission content from four perspectives: clinical, regulatory, participant voice, and accessible plain-language. The participant's own words and their clinical evidence are woven together into coherent, submission-ready material aligned to legislative and evidentiary requirements.

Step five

Portable record for the participant

A structured handover pack means participants own their own history. Changing Support Coordinators, allied health providers, or plan managers no longer means starting from scratch. The participant's evidence, goals, and plan history travel with them.

The architecture

The Glass Box.

We use AI, specifically large language models, but only after a deterministic, rule-based layer has verified the facts. The AI's job is synthesis and language. It does not determine the facts. Four principles govern every part of the platform.

Principle one

Transparent and auditable

Every output traces back to a specific legislative control, a specific piece of evidence, and a specific decision rule. A participant, coordinator, or reviewer can see exactly why a gap was identified and what the basis for every recommendation is.

Principle two

Deterministic first, AI second

Clinical test scores are extracted using structured lookup tables, not AI inference. Funding codes and eligibility rules are deterministic, not generated. The AI synthesises only within pre-validated constraints. It writes. It does not decide.

Principle three

Human-centred framing

Before every AI call, a non-negotiable layer checks that the framing of a participant's needs respects their dignity and uses functional-impact language. "Suffers from" becomes "requires support with."

Principle four

Privacy by design

All participant data is hosted on Australian sovereign infrastructure. A seven-stage privacy-preserving pipeline redacts all PII before the compliance evaluation layer ever touches the document. Participant-controlled consent, auditable access logs, Australian Privacy Principles compliant.

How we built it

Built with, not for.

BellaAssist was not designed by technologists at a distance from the disability sector. It was built through sustained co-design with participants and self-advocates, Support Coordinators, allied health practitioners, former NDIA planners, plan managers, small business operators, and disability advocacy organisations. That process is ongoing. It is led from inside the team.

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.

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Founder

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Finance

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Operations

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Go-to-Market

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Co-Design

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia