The Billion Animal Project

ONE BILLION
ANIMALS.

So animals live longer, healthier lives.

Every creature is entrusted to someone.
That someone deserves the best medicine on Earth.
So does the animal.

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THE SCALE

1,000,000,000

ONE BILLION LIVES

Herds. Flocks. Colonies. Companions. A number so large it stops feeling like anyone.

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THE MISSION

GATHER THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF ONE BILLION ANIMALS.
SO ANIMALS LIVE LONGER, HEALTHIER LIVES.

Right now, every vet visit starts from zero. An animal's history disappears when it changes clinics, moves cities, or sees a specialist. Every breakthrough in one country is invisible to every other. Every mistake gets repeated.

We are building the shared memory of animal medicine. One record per animal, accessible everywhere, growing smarter with every case. When a vet in Kenya and a vet in Kentucky see the same disease, they should share the same knowledge.

What endures is pride in becoming the kind of civilization that remembers its animals.

THE RECORD

The animal's record is not a product feature; it is a right of care. Every diagnosis, treatment, and outcome is saved, searchable, and shared across every vet who touches that animal.

THE REACH

Rural clinics. Mobile units. Tele-vet. Field medicine. We go where the animals are, not where the infrastructure already exists.

THE NETWORK

Every clinic on the same platform. A discovery in São Paulo reaches San Francisco. A treatment that works in sheep informs care in goats.

THE VOW

One billion records. Longer, healthier lives. Concrete, measurable, public. We will be held to it, and we intend to meet it.

40+

Species covered

Dogs and horses, plus bees, eagles, and axolotls

195

Countries to reach

Every vet. Every clinic. Everywhere.

Knowledge shared

Every case teaches every vet that follows

WHAT IT MEANS

EXTEND A
HEALTHY
LIFESPAN.

Longer, healthier lives, not more years of suffering. Tap a path to see how records make that possible.

Dog
01

MAJOR DISEASES

Cancer. Arthritis. Heart disease. Diabetes. Pattern recognition at scale finds what one clinic cannot.

A platform that aggregates millions of cases can identify which breeds are predisposed, which early signs are missed, which interventions work, and at what stage.

ONE HEALTH

ANIMAL DISEASES
ARE HUMAN DISEASES.

6 IN 10

known human infectious diseases can spread from animals

CDC

3 IN 4

new or emerging human diseases originate in animals

WHO

4 IN 10

top human cancers have direct parallels in dogs and cats

NIH

The diseases killing animals are the same diseases killing people. Cancer. Heart disease. Diabetes. Plus the pandemics that start in animals and reach us. Tap or hover any species or disease to see the connections.

Shared Disease (same in animals + humans)
Zoonotic (crosses from animal to human)
HUMANHomo sapiensDogCanineCatFelineHorseEquineCattleBovinePigPorcineChickenGallusDuckAnatineBatChiropteraCANCERHEART DISEASEDIABETESINFLUENZACORONAVIRUSRABIESSALMONELLAARTHRITISANIMALSDISEASES

Sources: CDC One Health · WHO · NIH Cancer Institute · AVMA. Tap or hover any species or disease

WHAT WE OWE THEM

01

THE CARETAKER

CANINE · FELINE · CUNICULAR

Every creature is entrusted to someone. A child with a hamster. A farmer with a herd. A rancher alone with a thousand head of cattle and no vet for two hundred miles. That person carries a life. They deserve the best medicine on Earth.

02

THE ANIMAL

EQUINE · BOVINE · OVINE

An animal cannot ask for help. It cannot describe where it hurts, how long it has hurt, what changed. The medical record is its voice, the only way its history can speak across time, across vets, across borders.

03

THE VET

PORCINE · CAPRINE · ASININE

A vet in Jakarta and a vet in Ohio should know the same things. A breakthrough in one species should reach every species. Medicine that remembers nothing is medicine that repeats every mistake. We are building the memory.

04

THE OBLIGATION

GALLUS · PSITTACINE · ANATINE

This is a vow made in public, against the clock, knowing we will be held to it. One billion records. Longer, healthier lives. What endures is pride in becoming the kind of civilization that remembers its animals.

EVERY SPECIES.
WHO YOU CARE FOR.

40+ species. Each one entrusted to a human being.

Tap the animals you care for. Not just dogs, but every creature that depends on someone.

YOU ARE ALREADY
A CARETAKER.

Clinics. Vets. Owners. Farmers. Anyone responsible for an animal's life.

Join the waitlist for the Billion Animal Project.

OpenVet and OpenAnimal are tools in service of the vow, not the other way around. Leave your email. We'll invite you when enrollment opens.