A PORTLAND woman is working to make the NDIS easier to navigate, after years of drowning in paperwork, and having to explain her own neurodiverse children’s circumstances over and over to specialists.

Kristine Godfrey is an engineer at the smelter by day, but has spent the last year and a half creating on an online National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) management platform called Carefully Planned.

With similar properties to social media platforms such as Facebook, carers and specialists can upload their NDIS plan to Carefully Planned, as well as medical reports and other documents, so specialists can access that information and add to it.

It also means that when something changes, everyone involved in that client can be told at one with an update.

“There's a lot of NDIS software for providers, but there aren't many options tailored for the NDIS participant or tailored for people in health at all,” Ms Godfrey said.

“And so that was a space that I wanted to be able to solve.

“My background is I'm an engineer and I have a master's in business as well.

“Problem solving is just something I do, I enjoy it, so when I did my MBA, I did an entrepreneur unit as the last unit, and I basically wrote the business plan for Carefully Planned, so I thought, ‘Well, why not give it a go?’”

Since then, she has grown the idea to have a team of four, with testing underway to positive response, and will launch later in the year.

The complicated current process is one that Ms Godfrey has struggled with personally, from the very early stages of her eldest son’s autism and dyslexia diagnoses.

“And as you go from public spaces where you do pre diagnosis and initial work into the NDIS and into that private space, they all ask the same questions.”

“I just thought there has to be a simpler way to connect everyone to the data.

“The amount of time required to discuss progress and goals for a child with a disability or neurodiversity is astounding...it’s not just for parents either, it can help anyone with an NDIS plan.”

“It’s a full-time job, it means that parents who have children that require more needs, it then becomes impossible for both parents to work.”

“For me, Carefully Planned would save me at least two or three hours a week…so the goal is to help as many people as I can.”

Carefully Planned will be launched in July and the waitlist is now open, with subscriptions fees billed to the NDIS.