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The special-education benefit no one else actually offers.

Your benefits stack may already have an EAP and a family-care platform. Neither one fights the special-education battle your employees are losing sleep over. That's the only thing we do — and we do it better than anyone, because it's all we do.

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The gap in every benefits stack

Family-care platforms (Wellthy, Cariloop, Bright Horizons) do broad caregiving — eldercare, childcare logistics, general navigation. EAPs do short-term counseling and referrals. Both are valuable. But the special-education fight — IEPs, evaluations, school placement, due-process pressure — is deep, adversarial, and specialized, and the generalists barely touch it. It's the single hardest, most expensive, most emotional thing a working parent of a neurodiverse child faces, and almost nobody at work is helping them with it.

How we compare

Capability	A New Story	Generalist care-nav (Wellthy / Cariloop)	Standard EAP	No benefit
Deep special-education / IEP expertise	✓ Core	~ Light	✗	✗
School-placement strategy & funding case	✓	✗	✗	✗
Built only for neurodiverse kids	✓	✗ Broad	✗ Broad	✗
Bilingual (English & Spanish), all 50 states	✓	~ Varies	~ Varies	✗
Founder is a special-needs parent (lived it)	✓	✗ Corporate	✗	✗
Full free resource for every employee	✓	✗ Gated	✗ Gated	✗
Transparent, flat pricing	✓	~ Opaque	~ Bundled	—
Never pay-to-play; never sells data	✓	~	~	—

We complement, we don't replace. If you already have an EAP or a care-nav platform, A New Story is the specialized special-education layer they don't have. We can even sit alongside them. We're advocacy and education — not legal representation; contested cases we refer to an attorney.

Why there's no one like us

Nobody owns this category

There's a benefit for fertility, for mental health, for eldercare, for general caregiving. There is no incumbent for the special-education fight. We're building the first — and the first one that earns parents' trust wins it.

Trust is the moat

We never take money to recommend a provider, never sell family data, and keep the entire resource free. That independence is why parents believe us — and why your employees will actually use it.

Founded by a parent who lived it

Not a corporate call center. The founder sat in those rooms, paid for the $5,000 evaluation, and felt the fear. Your employees can tell the difference in the first five minutes.

Depth nobody else has built

A credential-vetted directory across the country, age-by-age evaluation tools that show parents exactly what the experts look for, and plain-English guidance in English and Spanish. It's already the most useful free resource of its kind.