Waypoint is the GPS for navigating disability services.
When your child is diagnosed with autism, cerebral palsy, or another developmental disability, you're handed a maze — Regional Centers, IEPs, Medi-Cal, SSI — and told to figure it out yourself. Waypoint's AI gives California parents clear, personalized next steps, grounded in the laws that protect their child's rights, from the Lanterman Act to IDEA. Because families shouldn't need to become disability-law experts just to get their child the support they're entitled to.
Without Waypoint, you're the one doing the searching.
Google, Reddit threads, Facebook groups, PDFs from three different agencies — piecing together rules that change by county, hoping you didn't miss a deadline three weeks ago. That's not a knock on you. That's the system. Waypoint is built to be the other way around.
Without it
- ✕Hours of searching before you even know what question to ask
- ✕Advice from a stranger's situation, a different county, a different year
- ✕You find out about a deadline after it's already passed
- ✕Nobody's watching your case but you
With Waypoint
- ✓The next step, before you have to ask for it
- ✓Advice grounded in your child's age, diagnosis, and county
- ✓A reminder before the clock runs out — and again if you don't act
- ✓One quarterback for the whole case, not a library waiting to be searched
Waypoint turns "What do I do?" into "Here's what to do next."
Why not just read the guides?
Good question — every guide on this site is free forever, and we mean that. Here's the actual difference, one situation at a time.
The assessment plan is due 15 calendar days after your written request.
Starts that clock the day you send the request, and alerts you three days before it runs out.
A letter template you fill in yourself, print, and mail.
Drafts it filled in with your child's name, diagnosis, district, and the date — ready to send.
What a Notice of Action is, and that you have 60 days to appeal.
Stores yours, watches your specific 60-day window, and reminds you before it closes.
Answers a stranger's situation, from three years ago, in a different county.
Answers yours — in English or Spanish, cited to the same statutes as this site, at 2am if that's when you're up.
Six things the app does that a page can't
AI Navigator
Ask anything about your case, 24/7. Every answer cites the statute behind it — the same sourcing standard as this site.
Your action plan
Built from your child's age, diagnosis, and county — not a generic checklist. Updated every time something changes.
Deadline tracking
Every clock the law puts on your case — the 15-day, the 60-day, the 45-day — watched, with an alert before it runs out.
Document vault
Every NOA, IEP, and report, in one place — findable in seconds instead of a shoebox or a group chat thread.
Letter drafting
Requests, appeals, and follow-ups — pre-filled with your case details and ready to send, not a blank template.
Bilingual, always
English and Spanish, full parity — not a translated afterthought bolted on after launch.
One loop, every time something changes.
Waypoint isn't a form you fill out once. Your case moves — a reply comes in, a deadline passes, a new stage of the process opens — and every time it does, you're back at the start of the same four moves.
Tell Say what's happening
In plain English — a call that didn't get returned, a diagnosis that just came through, a letter you don't understand. Waypoint already knows your child's age, diagnosis, and county from your profile, so it starts from your actual situation, not a blank page.
Plan Get one next step
Not a forty-item checklist — one action, checked against the law that actually applies: the Lanterman Act, IDEA, Medi-Cal, SSI. It's the step that matters right now, in the order that protects your case.
Act Send something real
Waypoint drafts the letter, the request, the follow-up — filled in with your child's name, the date, and the citation, ready to send. The first ask is always friendly and collaborative, because that's what keeps the door open — and what makes your record look reasonable if you ever do have to push harder.
Track Let the clock get watched
Every request starts a real deadline — a 15-day, a 45-day, a 60-day window the law puts on the other side, not on you. Waypoint watches it, and if it passes without an answer, the next message firms up a notch: still yours to send, just a little less patient.
Then it starts again — a reply arrives, that deadline closes, a new stage of the process opens — and Waypoint is already there with the next Tell, the next Plan. That's the whole model: not a document you fill out once, a loop you come back to for as long as your case needs it.
The app isn't a paywalled black box. Every clock and every citation it uses is the same one published, for free, in the guides — so you can always check its work yourself.