Clinical capture, at the point of delivery
Working note. This page expands as the engagement progresses.
The diagnosis
Clinical technology has tried to enter the veterinary world for decades and failed every time. The reason is simple. Adopting any of it would require the vet to become a desk worker: to stop being with the horse and start being with a screen. Vets, sensibly, aren’t going to. So the stable runs on memory, paper, and whatever WhatsApp thread happens to be open at the time.
What we named
Capture has to happen at the point of value delivery, not afterwards. If the vet has to come back to a desk to type up what they did, they won’t, and we shouldn’t ask them to. The technology has to come to them, on their phone, in the barn, while their hands are on the horse.
The rebuild, in progress
AI does the work earlier technology never could:
- Voice transcription captures what the vet says as they say it.
- An LLM normalises unstructured speech into structured clinical events.
- Identity is confirmed by microchip first, vision second.
The vet keeps their hands on the horse. The system catches everything else.
Embed is still ahead
Embedding hasn’t started yet. That is the test. But the shape of the upside is already visible. Once the clinical data exists, accurately and in real time, the whole stable ecosystem benefits. Trainers see what they are allowed to see. Owners get visibility without intrusion. And the controls become structural rather than aspirational: in a sport where over-dosing is a regulatory and reputational failure, a system that knows what was given to which horse, when, and by whom is no longer a nice-to-have.
The vet kept being a vet. The stable became safer.
Update, July 2026
The work has shifted from shaping to readiness. A second cut of the application is being prepared for its first stable pilot, and the current effort is the unglamorous half of that. Hardening the services behind it, retiring the branches that taught us what not to build, and proving the whole thing is fit to put in a vet’s hand.
Embedding at the stable is still ahead. We will call it started when a vet has used it with a hand on a horse, and not before.
To be expanded as the work moves. Closing numbers and lessons posted when the engagement closes.