The placement operating system
for shelters and rescues.
Your team is not short on care. It is short on one place where intake notes, foster updates, applications, and follow-up tasks stay attached to the same animal record. WhiskerMatch connects them into one reviewed workflow — starting beside your current tools, not over the top of them.
The placement signals your team needs — on one surface.
Most of these numbers exist already. They're just scattered across inboxes, spreadsheets, and someone's memory. WhiskerMatch puts them where the team can act on them.
- 61
- Active cases
- 3
- Publish blocked
- 14
- Applicants waiting
- 4
- Foster check-ins due
- 9
- Missing critical fields
- 2
- Owner unassigned
- 5
- Overdue follow-ups
Juniper
Case A-2481
One animal. Six places. No owner.
“…limps a little on the left, fine after a walk”
Field rescue · est. 3y · no chip
Row 41 · status: ??? · owner: blank
“Still waiting to hear back — is she available?”
“behavior way better this week, fyi”
“Shy. Needs a quiet home.” — last edited 6w ago
Intake captured
owner assigned · missing fields flagged
Behavior note routed
from foster · reviewer required
Applicant attached
state tracked · next action due
Publish reviewed
named sign-off before public
Same fragments. One case timeline — owner visible, blockers surfaced, review required before anything goes public.
The work between intake and placement is invisible in most reports.
Retyped intake. Stale listings. Applicants lost between portals. Foster updates buried in group chats. These are not edge cases. They are the default state of most shelters and rescues we talk to.
Intake gets retyped
Paper, spreadsheet, shelter software, public listing — each copy loses context and introduces new errors.
Listings drift from reality
Animals get placed, medical notes change, temperament updates arrive — and the public profile stays frozen on a week-one photo.
Applicants fall through the cracks
A family finds an animal in one portal, applies in another, and follows up through a personal inbox.
Follow-up depends on memory
Reference checks, home visits, two-week check-ins live in someone's head — until they don't.
Every screen your team works from carries a reviewer, a date, and a trail.
Intake drafts, applicant queues, foster check-ins, and public profiles — all on one system, all with human review built in. Nothing reaches the public, and no applicant gets a decision, without a named person attached.
Juniper
· Case A-2481 · IntakeStatus: Intake draft
- Case
- Juniper · A-2481
- Intake source
- Field rescue
- Medical note
- Missing· required
- Reviewer
- Unassigned· needs owner
- Next action
- Assign reviewer
- Due
- Today · 5:00p
Tap a queue to preview the case state · illustrative, not real adopter data
Open the interactive demo → · nine product surfaces · illustrative example.
One workflow moves. Everything else stays exactly where it is.
The pilot is deliberately small. Week one is not a cutover. It is one workflow on the reviewed record while the rest of your stack keeps running.
What we need from you — and what we refuse to automate.
Here is what we ask of your team, and the line the software will not cross.
- One workflow you are willing to move first — not all of them at once.
- A shelter software export or spreadsheet we can import the starting records from.
- One person who can give direct feedback as the system lands.
- Honesty about what is actually broken, so we scope the right thing.
Approving or rejecting applicants
AI never makes the placement call. A named person decides, every time.
Publishing a profile
Nothing goes public on a draft. The reviewer gate does not auto-open.
Filling unknowns with guesses
Missing medical or behavior context stays labelled unknown — not invented.
Ranking animals by who paid
No pay-to-rank. Discovery serves adopters and operators, not a revenue model.
Who the first pilot group is built for — and who should wait.
Onboarding is founder-led and staged around a single workflow, which means there's a real cap on how many organizations can join at once. Here's the honest shape of fit.
- You run intake or placement with real volume — roughly 20+ animals in active placement.
- Your public listings don't fully reflect what staff actually know about the animals.
- Your pain is in intake structure, applicant review, or foster follow-up — not ad spend or donor marketing.
- Someone on your team is willing to give direct feedback as the system lands.
- You need turnkey, fully-featured software on day one.
- You want a listing aggregator or a ranked marketplace.
- You need a deep shelter management system replacement before any pilot can start.
- You want to deploy self-serve, without a conversation.
Not a rip-and-replace. A staged rollout that runs next to what you already use.
Your current shelter software stays. Your spreadsheets stay. Your listings stay live. We import what matters, start with the single workflow eating the most staff time, and expand once the team is comfortable.
Pilot pricing: $20/month per organization. Full details on /pricing.
Fit call, not a pitch
A working conversation about how intake, review, and foster coordination run at your org today. We qualify out honestly if the stage doesn't match.
Scope one workflow
We pick the single workflow eating the most staff time — usually intake or applicant review — and shape the system around how your team already works.
Pilot alongside existing tools
Import from shelter software exports and spreadsheets. The pilot runs next to what you already use — not over the top of it. Existing listings stay live.
Expand on your schedule
Once staff are comfortable, add the next workflow. Feedback loops stay direct with the founder and product team. No account-manager layer in the middle.
Trust is built into the shape of the software.
AI drafts and organizes. Humans review and decide. No pay-to-rank. No data resale. No auto-placement. Runs alongside your current tools. Read the full boundaries on /trust.
Early partners set the defaults.
First pilot group accepting requests. If you run intake, coordinate placement, or manage a rescue network, your input shapes what gets built first. Real conversations with the founder and product team.