MYFRIENDBEN
The Benefits Navigator in Your Pocket
Find the benefits you qualify for and get help accessing them.
In about six minutes, MyFriendBen shows you the benefits and tax credits you may qualify for and their estimated value — no name or Social Security number required. Then Benji (formerly BenBot), our AI-powered benefits navigator, helps you understand your results and navigate what comes next.
✓ Free ✓ 100% private ✓ Available in your language
households served to date
in benefits & tax credits secured for families
of users discover programs new to them
to see everything you qualify for
GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION
8 states today. 10 in 2026. Yours next?
Live today
Washington · Colorado · Kansas · Missouri · Illinois · Massachusetts · North Carolina · Texas
Launching in 2026
New Jersey · Maryland
MEET BENJI (FORMERLY BENBOT)
Go from “I qualify” to “I’m covered.”
The screener shows you what you may qualify for, then Benji helps you take the next step.
Ask questions about your results, understand eligibility and required documents, and get help navigating applications — from your first question through submission.
THE NAVIGATOR SYSTEM
One promise: no one navigates alone.
The screener, Benji, text support, and Ben Manager work as one system. Your answers travel with you — from the first question to the final approval, nothing is lost and no one starts over.
SCREEN
Six private minutes reveal 40+ benefits your family qualifies for — no name, no SSN, in your language.
NAVIGATE
Benji is always on and always communicating — answering questions, offering support, and fulfilling applications.
STAY CLOSE
Texts keep you current on work-requirement reporting, renewals, and new benefits you unlock along the way.
TRACK
Every step lands in Ben Manager — and one application auto-fills the next, for you and your caseworker.
One system, not four tools: the family sees a navigator in their pocket; the community sees benefits delivered.
Tech tools that work together to deliver with dignity.
Benji
An AI navigator inside your results. Ask “am I really eligible?” and Benji explains the program, gathers what you need, and walks the application through with you — step by step.
Ben Manager
Track every benefit from eligible to approved. Apply once and your information auto-fills the next application — and your navigator or caseworker sees it all, live.
INDEPENDENT PROOF
The Urban Institute put us under the microscope.
An independent, mixed-methods evaluation across Colorado and North Carolina.
screeners started since 2023
learned about a benefit they didn’t know existed
found every question clear
“How easy was the MyFriendBen screener to use?”
Very easy
79%
Somewhat easy
16%
Neither easy nor difficult
4%
Somewhat / very difficult
0%
Urban Institute evaluation (Coffey & Chambers), baseline survey.
VOICES
Don’t take our word for it.
Hear from the families and partners using MyFriendBen in their communities.
▶ How community partners use MyFriendBen to connect more families to benefits (2:41)
▶ Helping working parents find and access benefits (1:27)
— Daniel Hernandez, Director of Marketing and Communications
Denver Human Services, City and County of Denver
— Brieanna Howard, parent
Backed by believers, built with partners
…plus 211s, community organizations, health systems, state agencies, and Code the Dream across the country.
WHAT’S NEXT
Today, we navigate together.
Tomorrow, the application does itself.
Every screen, chat, and text is building toward auto-application: benefits that submit themselves — with your consent, in your language, at your pace.