Built by parents who have sat where you are sitting

Why we built Wayfound

We're parents of an autistic 11-year-old in San Diego. We've navigated IHSS protective supervision, Regional Center services, IEP meetings, and Medi-Cal, often at 2am, often in tears, often feeling completely alone.

If you've lived it, you know what it looks like. The denial letter that lands on a Friday so you can worry about it all weekend. The hold music. The acronyms nobody stops to explain. The form that asks for the same information as the last three forms, in a different order, and rejects you for a box you didn't know existed. The quiet fear that there is a service your child qualifies for, and you simply don't know its name.

We've learned the hard way that the system doesn't hand you what you're entitled to. You have to know it exists, know how to ask for it, and know when to fight for it. We spent years figuring this out. Wayfound is the tool we wish we'd had from day one.

What we did with what we learned

We've poured our decade of hard-won knowledge into Wayfound: 1,340+ advocate-verified sources covering 71 programs across California and Texas. Every feature exists because we needed it ourselves. We needed plain answers at 2am. We needed someone to translate a denial letter into next steps. We needed to know which deadline mattered this week, not after it passed.

A good disability advocate changes a family's life. But most families will never afford one. We built Wayfound so every family gets advocate-verified guidance from day one. And when you need a human advocate in your corner, our advocate workflow is now in pilot.

If you're at the beginning of this road, we're glad you found us. You don't have to figure it out alone the way we did.

The Wayfound Founders