About Zach Beaudoin

I am a disabled professional, and I have spent my career inside the institutions that are supposed to make accommodation work — universities, public agencies, community organizations. That means I have sat on both sides of the same table: the one where you administer the process, and the one where you are the person waiting on it. The second seat teaches you things the first one cannot. You learn that the delay is rarely anyone's decision, that it is four people each waiting for a different form, and that knowing this does not make the waiting shorter.

I am also a veteran, which is part of why one of the apps I build is a VA benefits tool. The claims process is the same institutional pattern in another setting: the burden of proof sits with the person least equipped to carry it, and the system treats that as a neutral fact rather than a design choice.

The apps came out of the same place. Managing a chronic illness means being asked, repeatedly, to hand over your medical history in exchange for a tool that will help you track it. The tools that do not ask for that are often the ones you cannot use, because no one built them for a screen reader or for a bad day.

In support groups and online, I keep meeting the same frictions described as personal failures. The barriers are collective and people hit them one at a time, alone, and conclude the problem is them. It is not.

I no longer wanted to hand over my personal health data for a company to mine and sell just to have support managing an illness. So the apps are funded the other way around. The paid tier buys interpretation and convenience: better summaries, easier export, more of the presentation work done for you. It never buys access to your own raw data, which stays yours and stays portable. Someone has to keep the infrastructure running. It does not have to be an advertiser.

My professional focus bridges digital accessibility and organizational practice, helping teams fix their websites while also establishing internal systems that support disabled employees throughout the employment lifecycle, from recruitment through retention.