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Built by people who care.

Hai Helper is shaped by lived experience, allied health expertise, and a shared commitment to participant-first design.

Sam Fairbairn, Founder of Hai Helper

Sam Fairbairn

Founder & CEO

Our Story

Why I built Hai Helper.

Sam in a neurological rehabilitation clinic with the Lokomat gait-training machine
In clinic with Lokomat machine

I'm Sam Fairbairn. I'm a neurological physiotherapist, and I'm the founder of Hai Helper.

Before any of this was a platform, I worked in clinics and numerous places in between. Watching how people got around, establishing better movement patterns and becoming part of their lives. I love it. I also watched the things quietly holding them back. Sometimes it wasn't their ability or was rarely their effort. It was their daily stressors. Whether their funding was right, whether they could afford travel, whether they could get the supports I, and every other therapist, recommended for them. Funding they couldn't read. Budgets they were scared to touch in case they got it wrong. Support they were entitled to but never used. Or periods of no support as they inadvertently ran out, because no one had the time to sit down and make it make sense.

That never sat right with me. These are people's lives, and we were asking them to navigate one of the most complex systems in the country with varied sources of truth.

So I built the tool I wished my clients had. Hai Helper takes the plan you already have and helps it make sense. Good tools amplify the person's own decision making.

We're independent and participant-side by design.

Ask me anything: sam@haihelper.com.au

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Sam Fairbairn

CEO & Founder

Neurological physiotherapist turned founder. Driving product vision, funding strategy, business development, and community outreach, with deep first-hand knowledge of what NDIS participants actually need.

Advocate & Operations
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Gaurav Kumar Karki

Lead Developer

Building the platform's interface and AI-enabled layer. Responsible for the intelligent, accessible features that makes Hai Helper more than just a management tool.

AI & Systems
Advisors

Mike Fairbairn

Business Strategy, Communications & Government Advisor

15+ years experience in media, government and policy adjacent positions

Anh Kim Phu

Accessibility Consultant & Community Advocate

Registered Accountant, Clinic Manager, NDIS participant

Andrew Turner

Accessibility Advisor & Community Advocate

Accountant for 25+ years, 10 years in not-for-profit space and advocacy roles, NDIS participant

Nick Hopkins & David Oram

Accessibility Tech Consultants & Developers

Collaboration with Atomic Web Strategy on WCAG Accessibility — atomicwebstrategy.com.au