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The trust rail for veterinary records
Imagine Pepper becomes ill one hundred and sixty-four miles from home. The receiving clinic can treat her, but her medications, allergies, vaccines, and recent labs live inside another organization. Alex may have a document. The clinic still cannot prove who created it, whether it changed, or whether this exact disclosure is authorized.
That is the market failure: the record exists, but trust does not travel with it.
Most veterinary practices are already digital. Seventy-six point five percent use practice-management software, and sixty-six point eight percent use electronic medical records. The FDA names non-standard data, privacy, sharing, and interoperability as persistent animal-health-record problems. The unsolved category is not record creation. It is trusted movement.
OneVet is the consent and provenance rail between veterinary systems. An owner chooses the recipient, purpose, scope, and deadline. The origin preserves the source. Cited facts wait for human review. Policy and consent are checked again at delivery. The recipient verifies one tamper-evident receipt. OneVet replaces neither clinic’s system and makes no clinical decision.
The timing is real. Ninety-five million U.S. households own a pet. Seventy-one million own a dog. Fifty-five percent of dog owners shape travel plans around their pets. And the U.S. has thirty-four thousand, two hundred and ninety-six veterinary employer establishments.
The business model is built for network formation. Owners and verified receivers are free. A practice pays two hundred and forty-nine dollars per location, with fifty completed handoffs included, then seventy-five cents each. Networks pay one hundred and forty-nine dollars per location plus fifty cents per handoff. Platforms pay an infrastructure minimum plus volume.
Free receiving removes the cold-start tax. Paid automation funds connectors and support. Every successful exchange makes the network more useful.
At seventy-five monthly handoffs, a practice produces two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents in monthly revenue. At an eighty-two percent gross-margin target and two-thousand-dollar acquisition cost, payback is nine point one months. At the national veterinary-assistant wage, the price breaks even at roughly eleven minutes saved per handoff. That is a pilot gate, not an assumed victory.
Today, OneVet is a working synthetic-data demo backed by signed policy artifacts and formally checked TLA+ workflows. It is not yet a production clinic network.
We are raising two point five million dollars for twenty-four months: to ship five production connectors, reach twenty-five design-partner clinics, prove fifty thousand consented handoffs, and target two hundred and fifty paying locations—seven hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars in base annual recurring revenue before usage.
OneVet is not where the veterinary record lives. It is how that record earns trust while it moves.
Truth boundary: Pricing, economics, milestones, and the raise are planning assumptions—not achieved results. The demonstration uses synthetic data and is not veterinary care or legal advice.