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 reads your operations and surfaces the next move: drafted by AI, decided by your team.
From the founder
Built by someone who ran the floor
"Ten-plus years running pet-care operations across multiple locations — checking in dogs at 6 a.m., chasing feeding notes that lived in someone's head, paying 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, 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
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 slide begins — prices climb, support thins, the roadmap stops listening to the floor. BarkWhiz is the opposite by design — bootstrapped and owned by the operator who built it, with no outside 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 →
AI drafts. Your team decides.
Plenty of tools say "AI-powered." BarkWhiz makes a simple promise: nothing reaches a client without a human saying yes. The AI does the busywork; your team stays in control.
AI drafts the next step
Updates to pet parents and follow-ups 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 sending AI-written client 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. Weighing it against Gingr head-to-head? See the full comparison.
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 receive Ops + CRM for $249/month, locked for 24 months. After that, they retain a permanent 15% discount from the then-current list price.
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. On integrations, QuickBooks is live today. Under the hood, BarkWhiz runs on Stripe for payments and billing, Twilio for texting, and Resend for email — those power live features, and more operator-facing integrations are in active development. Automated email and text reminders now send straight from BarkWhiz — with AI-drafted updates still reviewed by your team before they go out. 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 required.
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