Custody infrastructure for animal welfare

Today, an animal can leave a shelter and disappear from the record. What closes that gap?

Adopti is the coordination and accountability layer above existing shelter management systems — creating one persistent, verified record per animal from intake to confirmed outcome.

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Custody Record

ANM-00448821
In transit

Breed

Labrador mix

Age

~2 yr

Origin

Nashville Metro

Destination

Paws Rescue

INTAKE COMPLETE

Animal logged at Nashville Metro Animal Services

Field Officer M. Reyes
08:14:22

RESCUE REQUEST

Paws Rescue Network — transport arranged

Rescue Coord. T. Kim
11:02:45

IN TRANSIT

Transport van en route · Volunteer transporter assigned

Transporter A. Cruz
14:32:11
3 verified events · 2 agencies · chain intact

Built for the custody networks behind millions of animal welfare decisions each year — connecting municipal shelters, rescue organizations, fosters, and transport coordinators.

01 / The coordination gap

When an animal waits while teams coordinate through emails, texts, and spreadsheets — two things happen.

The animal's risk increases. And the city's costs rise.

Existing shelter management systems were built to track animals inside a single facility. When an animal moves to a rescue partner, a foster home, or a transport route, the record stops. There is no shared chain of custody. No verified handoff. No confirmed outcome. Just a gap in the record — and an accountability gap for the city.

Coordination breaks

Transfer requests move through emails, texts, and screenshots with no verified acknowledgment.

Records stop at the gate

Animal history stays inside one SMS. Partners operate without full custody context.

Outcomes go unverified

Placements and outcomes are self-reported by the sender — never confirmed by the receiving party.

Compliance is manual

State and federal reporting requires outcome verification that no single system can produce.

Architecture

Infrastructure for public-trust custody. What changes when the record doesn't break?

One role-gated, persistent record per animal across every handoff — so coordination turns into safe, auditable outcomes.

02

Network

Cross-organization chain of custody

Every shelter, rescue, foster, transporter, and adopter connected to a municipal anchor shares one record layer. Animals don't fall out of the system when they cross an organizational boundary.

  • Integrates with Chameleon, Shelterluv, PetPoint, RescueGroups
  • No rip-and-replace — existing SMS keeps running
  • Role-gated access for each network participant type
  • Municipal director, rescue coordinator, foster, transporter, adopter
03

Custody

Signed, timestamped handoffs

Every transfer is documented and attributable. Outcomes are confirmed by the receiving party — not self-reported by the sender. The record doesn't break because the coordination layer doesn't stop at the facility boundary.

  • Receiving-party outcome verification
  • Immutable event log with actor attribution
  • Medical holds, custody flags, transport clearance
  • Audit-ready from intake to confirmed placement
04

Field

Transport coordination built in

Transport coordination ships in v1 because it's a prerequisite for any animal to exit the coordinated network safely. Without it, improved shelter-rescue coordination produces animals with nowhere to go.

  • Transport requests with route visibility
  • Volunteer transporter assignment and tracking
  • Foster network capacity visibility in real time
  • Compliance reporting add-on for state mandates

05 / Who it's for

The buyer owns the accountability gap.

The primary buyer is a municipal animal services director at a mid-size U.S. city. This person controls the budget, carries the accountability, and owns a broken coordination problem that existing SMS tools were not designed to solve — because those tools stop at the facility boundary.

Anchor buyer

Municipal Director

Controls budget, carries accountability. Paid access to the full coordination and compliance layer.

Network participant

Rescue Partners

Licensed rescue organizations connected to the municipal anchor. Free access — their participation is required for the system to work.

Network participant

Fosters & Transporters

Approved individuals who move animals through the custody chain. Mobile-first field experience with role-gated custody actions.

Compliance buyer

State & Grant Agencies

Compliance add-on buyers under AB 631 and successor mandates. Per-animal verified outcome reporting sold as a second revenue line.

The thesis

Adopti is not a better shelter app.

It is the public-trust infrastructure layer for animal custody, care, placement, and accountability. Every intake, hold, medical note, partner request, foster offer, transport handoff, and outcome becomes part of one persistent record — so the chain of responsibility stays visible from intake to resolution.

06 / Pilot program

One city. One coordinated network. Prove the model.

The Year 1 design partner profile is one or two cities willing to co-design the pilot. We're looking for directors with documented coordination failures — high euthanasia rates despite available rescue capacity, audit findings, or publicized custody incidents between shelters and partner networks.

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SeatMunicipal anchor · ~2,000–15,000 intakes/year
AccessFree for all network participants
RevenueTiered municipal platform fee + compliance add-on
PhaseCo-design pilot · pre-revenue to first ARR