The honest version, in plain English.

Fledge is a guided walkthrough for licensed Speech-Language Pathologists who are starting a private practice. It asks you questions, then assembles a state-aware checklist for forming a business, applying for federal and provider identifiers, and enrolling 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 walkthrough is currently verified for Maryland; visitors from other states are welcome to look around and join the waitlist, but the state-specific facts won't apply to you yet.

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.

The walkthrough 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 the walkthrough is legal, tax, accounting, or medical advice, and reading 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 try to break the wizard, and don't impersonate other clinicians or use someone else's license number.

If we add a paid billing service later, that service will have its own separate agreement that you'll need to review and accept before any money or claims data changes hands. These terms cover the free walkthrough only.

By default, your wizard 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.

If we ever add a feature that needs your answers on our side — for example to submit forms on your behalf — we will ask you first, in plain English, before anything leaves your device.

We may update these terms as Fledge grows. If a change is meaningful — for example because we added a paid feature or changed what we collect — we'll surface a notice on the wizard so you don't miss it.

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. We do our best to verify every state-specific fact firsthand, but the rules change, and we can't be responsible for losses you suffer because a payer changed its credentialing form between releases.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Fledge's total liability to you for the free walkthrough is limited to the amount you paid for it — which, today, is zero.

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