No private-equity roll-up
No outside owners optimizing you toward a return. The incentives stay pointed at the operators who use BarkWhiz — not at the next exit.
Why BarkWhiz
Your kennel software records the day. We help you act on it.
Most pet-care platforms log reservations, payments, and notes — then leave the follow-up, the retention, and the revenue to you. BarkWhiz was built by an operator to read your daily operations and tell your team what to do next: drafted by AI, decided by your team.
From the founder
Built by someone who ran the floor
"I've spent more than ten years running pet-care operations across multiple locations. I've checked in dogs at 6 a.m., chased down a feeding note that lived in someone's head, and paid every month for software that recorded my reservations but never helped me run the day.
The last straw was how many follow-ups quietly slipped — because the notes, the tasks, and the messages all lived in different places.
So I'm building the system I wish I'd had. I'd rather get it right with a handful of operators than ship something that looks good in a demo and falls apart on a busy Saturday."
Ryan Leach
Founder & Operator
Independent. Operator-owned.
There's a pattern in this industry: a tool operators love gets bought by a private-equity roll-up, and the familiar slide begins — prices climb, support thins, payment processing gets forced on you, and the roadmap stops listening to the people on the floor. BarkWhiz is the opposite by design. It's bootstrapped and owned by the operator who built it — no outside investors, and no board with a clock running on an exit. The person who decides what ships next is the one who answers your email, and who still runs a kennel.
The founder answers your email
The person deciding the roadmap is the same one who answers your message — and who still runs a kennel and feels the same pain you do.
Founding pricing, locked for life
Founding facilities lock in their pricing for life. With no outside owners chasing a return, there's no roll-up math quietly pushing it up later.
Private equity is quietly rolling up boarding, daycare and grooming across the country. See what the data shows — and why we won't sell →
AI drafts. Your team decides.
Plenty of tools now say "AI-powered." BarkWhiz is built around a simple promise: nothing reaches a client, and no decision gets made, without a human saying yes. The AI does the busywork; your team stays in control.
AI drafts the next step
Updates to pet parents, follow-ups, and pricing nudges start as a draft — not a blank page — so most of the work is already done.
Your team approves it
Every AI-assisted action waits for a human review. You decide what goes out, what changes, and what waits.
You stay in control
No black-box automation firing off messages or changing prices on its own. BarkWhiz supports operator judgment — it doesn't replace it.
The cost of doing nothing
What is the status quo costing you?
A deeper estimate built from how your facility actually runs. Enter your numbers — the assumptions are all visible and adjustable.
Your operation
Estimated monthly revenue: $46,796
Where revenue leaks (rough estimates — adjust)
Est. revenue at risk / year$78,618
Est. hours back / year416
That's per week8
Estimate based on your inputs and the visible assumptions above — not a guarantee of revenue recovered or time saved. It's the ground BarkWhiz helps you win back.
Not sure what to put in these boxes?
That's not on you — it's what your current software did to you. A legacy kennel system records every booking, payment, and check-out, then never tells you how many kennels sat empty, which regulars quietly stopped coming, or how many stays never got rebooked. So the sliders above are an educated guess. BarkWhiz reads the data you already have and shows you the real number — with its work — so your team acts on it, instead of just recording it.
Questions operators ask
Most kennel software is a ledger: it records that things happened. BarkWhiz acts on what happened — surfacing the follow-up, the rebooking, the at-risk client — with AI drafting the next step and your team deciding. It's built by an operator, for the floor, not the back office.
Yes — white-glove migration is part of founding membership. We move your customers, pets, and history over for you rather than handing you a spreadsheet and wishing you luck.
That's the whole design goal. High-frequency tasks are built for dramatically fewer clicks, with a floor-friendly shift view — and we onboard each founding facility by hand, so your team is set up properly, not left to figure it out.
Founding facilities get founding pricing locked in for life. We'll walk you through the numbers on a short call with the founder — no demo gauntlet, no sales rep, no deck.
We're pre-launch and onboarding our first operators by hand. The operational core is live and in real use with our first facilities — reservations and the care-floor map, check-in/out, care logging, AI-drafted pet-parent updates your team reviews and sends, and our branded customer portal with self-service online booking, vaccine uploads, and pay-your-balance-online. QuickBooks, Stripe, and Google integrations are live; other third-party integrations are still on the roadmap, and automated outbound email and text reminders to your clients aren't sending in production yet. We'd rather be upfront about that than oversell — ask us anything on your call.
It's founder-operated and built from real operational experience — and we're deliberately starting with a small first cohort so we can get it right rather than over-promise at scale. Founding members get a direct line to the founder the whole way.
Become one of our first 10 founding facilities
We're onboarding our first operators by hand — see whether BarkWhiz fits the way your facility actually runs.
We reply within two business days—or your first month is free. No credit card, no demo gauntlet.
Not ready for a founding spot? Just keep me posted