How the companion works
Everything below is what you get before you tell us anything about yourself.
You’ll be asked for very little
Your first name, your email address, and your timezone. Then your animal’s name, whether they are a dog or a cat, and which words you use for them. We don’t ask for a diagnosis, medical records, treatment history, or a quality-of-life score, because we don’t need them and shouldn’t hold them.
Then one note, straight away
The first action appears immediately — you don’t wait until tomorrow. After that you choose: one note a day, or nothing until you ask for the next one. If time is very short, the companion prioritizes instead of pacing.
Every note has three parts
The action
Film ten seconds of the way Bo comes toward you.
The reason
Movement is one of the few things a photograph cannot keep.
The permission
Dogs and cats get different notes
Not the same text with the species swapped. A cat’s rituals, sounds and movements are their own, and the notes were written that way.
For a cat
Film one small ritual the two of you still have — the ask for food, the window, the arrival on the bed at night.
The permission is the point
Presence outranks preservation. If a note asks for something that’s not possible today, saying so is a real answer, and it changes what you’re offered next. If you say something wasn’t possible, you won’t be asked again unless you tell us the situation has changed.
What happens to what you upload
It goes into a private archive that only you can see. Originals are kept as originals. Every view of a file is a temporary link — there’s no permanent public address for anything of yours. You can download an individual item, download all of it as one file, delete any single thing, or delete the whole project and your account. Nothing you upload is used to train a model or shown in our marketing.
What’s free and what isn’t
The companion, the archive, and downloading everything you gathered are free. Later, and separately, we intend to offer a printed book made from what you collected. That will cost money, it’s not built yet, and you won’t be asked about it while you’re in the hardest part.
What this will never do
- Tell you when it’s time, or help you decide.
- Interpret a symptom or suggest a treatment.
- Score your animal’s quality of life.
- Tell you that a loving owner would have done any of this.
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