This Tampa Founder Built an AI App to Organize Your Medical, Legal, and Financial Records in One Place

A new school year starts and you are scrambling. The pediatrician needs updated immunization records. Information for a sports physical is missing. The form asks about medications you can’t fully remember the name of. You know the records are somewhere. But in reality, the information is scattered between a patient portal, a note on your phone, and a manila folder in a drawer that hasn't been opened since the last move.

Then a kid ends up in the ER, and the same chaos plays out under higher stakes. When was the last antibiotic prescription? Any known allergies? Where’s the updated insurance card? The parent knows the answers, approximately, but the hospital needs them precisely.

Sound familiar?

Medical information, much like financial and legal information, can easily be scattered in dozens of different places, making it difficult to track down in an emergency. The reality is that there is fiction when it comes to managing a life (or several lives, if you are a parent).

Tampa-based entrepreneur Edward Reyes started asking the question: "Why isn't there something that has all your medical and legal stuff in one place?"

He started to answer that question with Med Legal Safe Keep, an AI-enabled platform Reyes has spent the past two years building to solve a problem most people don't think about until it's too late.

The Fragmentation Problem

Today, medical, financial, and legal data exists in silos, spread across provider portals, paper files, insurance accounts, and attorney offices.

Med Legal Safe Keep is a B2C app that lets individuals store, edit, and share health, financial, and legal records in a single encrypted environment. The platform uses AI to help organize documents, and is built with role-based, time-bound access controls. That means users can share specific records with specific people for specific windows of time, without surrendering blanket access to their data.

That can be important if you are sharing information with family members for an elderly parent, for example.

Safety and security is top of mind within the app, Reyes said. Each user profile generates a QR code. If that code is scanned in a crisis, first responders and family members get immediate access to the relevant records. A geolocation feature also activates, alerting family members to which hospital their loved one is being transported to and giving emergency personnel a clearer picture of who they're treating and where.

The platform stores client data on a separate server with local saving as a secondary layer, an architecture designed to limit exposure in the event of a breach.

Meet The Founder

Reyes's path to building a legal-tech startup is anything but linear. He became a parent as a teenager and built a career as a massage therapist. He then transitioned into business ownership and eventually opened a physicians group. In his early thirties, he went back to school, ultimately earning his law degree in 2017. Two days after passing the bar, he opened The Reyes Firm.

He saw the need for something like Med Legal Safe Keep most acutely after his father was hospitalized, leaving his mother and him scrambling to find important paperwork.

The consumer use case is clear, since individuals and families need help managing the complexity of health, age, and emergencies. But Reyes is already thinking about institutional distribution. His longer-term target includes school districts, where the platform could serve as a centralized system for parents to maintain and share children's medical and legal documents.

Med Legal Safe Keep has raised $130,000 in friends-and-family funding, much of it self-generated through revenue from The Reyes Firm.