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.
About BarkWhiz
Built by an operator who still runs the floor.
BarkWhiz isn't built by a software company that discovered pet care. It's built by a multi-location operator who checks in dogs, chases feeding notes, and pays the software bills — and got tired of paying for a system that recorded the day but never helped run it.
From the founder
Why I'm building BarkWhiz
"Ten-plus years running pet-care operations — today, two Sit Means Sit locations in Dallas and College Station. I've checked in dogs at 6 a.m., chased a feeding note that lived in someone's head, and paid more than $1,000 a 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, tasks, and messages all lived in different places.
So I'm building the system I wish I'd had — and getting it right with a handful of operators rather than shipping something that demos well and falls apart on a busy Saturday."
Ryan Leach, MBA
Founder & Operator · owner of Sit Means Sit Dallas & College Station
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Independent. Operator-owned.
Pet-care software has a pattern: a tool operators love gets bought by a private-equity roll-up, and the slide begins — prices climb, support thins, the roadmap stops listening to the floor. BarkWhiz isn't that — it's bootstrapped and owned by the operator who built it, with no investors and no board running a clock to an exit.
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 facilities receive Ops + CRM for $249/month, locked for 24 months. After that, they retain a permanent 15% discount from the then-current list price.
Founding facilities receive Ops + CRM for $249/month, locked for 24 months. After that, they retain a permanent 15% discount from the then-current list price.
Private equity is quietly rolling up boarding, daycare and grooming across the country. See what the data shows — and why we won't sell →
What we're building
BarkWhiz reads your daily operations and surfaces the next move — AI drafts it, your team decides. We're pre-launch and onboarding our first ~10 founding facilities by hand, so we get it right before we scale. See why BarkWhiz exists, where it's headed on the roadmap, or what founding membership costs on pricing.
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 required.
Not ready for a founding spot? Just keep me posted