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.

Ryan Leach, founder of BarkWhiz, with his dog
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

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

40
$45
6

Estimated monthly revenue: $46,796

Where revenue leaks (rough estimates — adjust)

4%
4%
3%
3%
2m
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.

Become a Founding Facility

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 QuickBooks integration is live today; other integrations and parts of the platform are in active development. 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.