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 agentic assistive technology for Australians navigating the complexity of regulated care. Our flagship, BellaAssist, helps participants, Support Coordinators, and providers prepare evidence-ready submissions for the NDIS, with aged care and clinical trials on the horizon.

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

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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

The core problem

Ask a carer what managing a support plan is like:

Hell. One word. Hell.

Bec, mother and carer, on managing a support plan.

Feeling like a number

Managing your own health and disability is complex and exhausting. Having to re-tell "the worst day" of your disability journey again and again can take a real emotional toll.

Feeling uncertain about what you don't know

You never quite know if you've ticked all the boxes. NDIS rules and processes are always changing, and just keeping up can feel like a full-time job.

Feeling like you don't have a voice

Your own experience is important evidence, but it isn't always easy to make sure it gets heard. When it doesn't, family and other informal supports can end up taking on more and more.

From uncertainty to peace of mind: BellaAssist helps you put forward your strongest evidence and gives you more control over what goes into your submission.

Who it is for

One platform, three audiences.

BellaAssist serves the NDIS ecosystem at every level: from the participant assembling their own evidence, to the Support Coordinator carrying fifty files, to the association recommending it to members.

For Partners

Associations & referrers

For associations, peak bodies and allied health networks who recommend BellaAssist to members rather than operating it themselves.

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For Frontline teams

Support Coordinators & providers

Built with Support Coordinators, for Support Coordinators. Reduce evidence preparation time per participant, identify gaps early, and carry the work without carrying the admin.

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For Participants

Participants & families

Understand what your plan can fund, prepare for reviews with confidence, and own a complete, portable record of your evidence. In plain language, with your consent, under your control.

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Trusted AI architecture

A Glass Box, not a black box.

We use AI, specifically large language models, and constrain what they are allowed to produce. Instrument scores are parsed rather than inferred, funding codes and eligibility rules are applied by rule rather than generated, and the model synthesises only within those constraints. Its job is synthesis and language, not deciding what is true. Four principles govern every part of the platform.

Principle one

Transparent and auditable

Readiness findings and drafted submission content trace back to a specific legislative control, a specific piece of evidence, and a specific decision rule. A participant, coordinator, or reviewer can see why a gap was identified and what the basis for a recommendation is.

Principle two

Deterministic first, AI second

WHODAS 2.0 scores are extracted by a deterministic parser rather than a generative model. Other gold-standard instruments, including Vineland and PEDI-CAT, are recognised in a report and cited from its text. Funding codes and eligibility rules are deterministic, not generated, and the AI synthesises only within pre-validated constraints.

Principle three

Human-centred framing

When the tool rewrites or summarises a participant's needs, a separate layer checks that the framing respects their dignity and uses functional-impact language. "Suffers from" becomes "requires support with."

Principle four

Privacy by design

The application, database and participant documents are held on Australian servers. NDIS numbers, Medicare numbers, phone numbers and email addresses are masked before any AI processing. Participant-controlled consent, auditable access logs, and handling under the Australian Privacy Principles.

Where we stand

One engine, one process.

We build for schemes where access to care depends on documents that have to meet a complex set of rules. The NDIS is the first build and the first proof: 208 controls across 8 domains, encoded from the NDIS Act and its amendments. Aged care, legal aid and workers' compensation share the same shape.

What is changing in the NDIS, and when →

The evidence behind how we build →

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

Our story · a message from the founder

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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