AI Symptom-to-Rating Translator
Tell us how your condition actually affects your daily life. The AI translates your words into the exact 38 CFR regulatory language that C&P examiners and raters respond to, and drafts a personal statement you can use.
Tell me how your condition impacts your day-to-day life. I'll translate your words into the exact 38 CFR language the VA uses and draft a personal statement for you.
Your Words Decide Your Rating
The VA does not rate how you feel. It rates whether your described symptoms match specific words in 38 CFR Part 4, the rating schedule. A rater reading “I get sad sometimes” assigns a very different percentage than one reading “depressed mood, chronic sleep impairment, and disturbances of motivation affecting my ability to work.” Same veteran. Different words. Different check.
The Translator takes your plain-language description and rewrites it in the exact regulatory vocabulary the rating criteria use, without exaggerating and without leaving your worst days invisible.
Matches The Criteria
Every diagnostic code has trigger words at each percentage tier. The Translator surfaces the ones your symptoms actually meet.
Drafts Your Statement
It produces a ready-to-file VA Form 21-4138 personal statement in your voice, structured the way raters expect.
Preps You For The Exam
It gives you the keywords and frequency-and-duration details to bring to your C&P exam so the examiner records them.
Plain English, Translated To VA Language
These are the kinds of rewrites the Translator produces. Notice it never invents symptoms, it names the ones you already have in the words the rating schedule recognizes.
“I can't sleep, I'm angry all the time, and I've pushed my family away.”
Chronic sleep impairment; irritability with periods of unprovoked anger; and disturbances of mood and motivation resulting in difficulty establishing and maintaining effective family relationships.
“I get bad headaches a few times a week and have to lie down in the dark. I missed about 20 days of work this year.”
Characteristic prostrating attacks occurring on average more than once per month, requiring me to cease all activity in a darkened room, and productive of severe economic inadaptability (approximately 20 lost workdays this year).
“My back is stiff and I can barely bend over in the morning. It gets worse the more I move.”
Limitation of forward flexion of the thoracolumbar spine with additional loss of motion on repetitive use and during flare-ups, with functional loss due to pain, stiffness, and fatigability per DeLuca.
How To Write A 21-4138 That Wins
A strong personal statement (VA Form 21-4138) is often the difference-maker. It is the one place the VA hears from you in your own words, and raters do read it. Vague statements get ignored. Specific ones, with dates, frequency, and what you can no longer do, get weighed. Your part is to review the draft and make sure every word is true. The Translator drafts yours around these four pillars:
How to Describe Your Symptoms Honestly
The examiner has minutes with you and a checklist. Do not minimize. Describe your symptoms in the terms that reflect your real functional loss. Talk about your worst days, not your best ones, and talk about flare-ups. Say what the condition stops you from doing at work and at home. Your part is to be honest, specific, and complete, because whatever you leave out does not exist to the rater:
