The honest version, in plain English.

Fledge is a business formation checklist for licensed Speech-Language Pathologists who are starting a private practice. You answer questions about your state and your situation, and it assembles the specific steps you need to form a business, apply for federal and provider identifiers, and enroll with payers.

Fledge is software. It is not your lawyer, your accountant, your billing service, or your compliance officer. It is the friend who has done this before and is willing to walk you through it.

You can use Fledge if you hold (or are about to hold) an active SLP license in the United States. The curated business-formation checklist is currently live for California, Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas; visitors from other states get the universal version of the checklist along with a banner noting that state-specific guidance is in progress. The Fledge app at app.fledgepractice.com is available in every state today.

Fledge is intended for the licensed clinician personally. If you're an administrator setting up a practice on behalf of a clinician, you're welcome to use it, but the answers you save belong to that clinician.

Fledge surfaces information about state agencies, federal programs, and payer enrollment processes. We work hard to keep that information current and accurate, and we cite sources where it matters.

But: nothing in Fledge is legal, tax, accounting, or medical advice, and using it does not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, or clinician-patient relationship between you and Fledge. For decisions that affect your license, your taxes, or a patient's care, talk to a qualified professional.

Use Fledge for its intended purpose: researching and setting up your own private practice. Don't scrape the content to train a competing product, don't attempt to interfere with how the site operates, and don't impersonate other clinicians or use someone else's license number.

All content on Fledge, including text, design, and the underlying code, belongs to Fledge and is protected by copyright and intellectual property law. You're welcome to use the information for your own practice setup, but you may not reproduce or redistribute the content itself.

Your answers live in your browser's local storage on your own device. They are not posted to a Fledge server, and we cannot read them. The Privacy page goes into more detail.

We may update these terms as Fledge grows. If a change is meaningful, we'll surface a notice so you don't miss it. The Last Updated date at the top of this page is the canonical signal.

You can stop using Fledge at any time. There's no account to delete, no contract to cancel. Closing the tab is enough.

Fledge is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We verify every state-specific fact firsthand, but the rules change, and we can't be responsible for losses you suffer because an agency or payer changed its requirements between releases.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Fledge's total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us. Which, today, is zero.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas. Any dispute arising from your use of Fledge will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Texas.

If something on this page or in the checklist is wrong, stale, or just confusing, the contact link in the footer goes to a real human. We answer in business hours.