How we work
Evidence-based development
Measured, then published
Every figure we publish stands on measurement taken in a working facility. We state what we can show.
Proven hardware first
Where veterinary-grade equipment already exists, we use it. Invention is reserved for the parts nobody has built.
Operators shape the product
Panoptic is built in direct partnership with the veterinary and scientific development teams at PetPace LLC and the boarding and daycare facilities who have qualified to deploy our proprietary system, so the system answers to the realities of the floor rather than to assumptions made away from it.
Senior team, direct accountability
The people who design the system are the people who answer for it. There is no layer between the engineering and the operators who depend on it.
Leadership
The founders
Panoptic began with a simple, stubborn observation: animals cannot report symptoms, and by the time distress is visible to a person walking past, it has usually been underway for some time. Our founders came to that problem from several very different directions — years of hands-on work in pet-care operations, a combined nearly 70 years of work in aerospace engineering and embedded systems engineering and programming, and more than three decades in complex litigation where no claim survives without proof — and built Panoptic to close the gap with evidence rather than with more team members.
We hold the company to the same rules that apply in a courtroom: no claim without proof, and no number that has not been measured. It is the standard behind everything we do at Panoptic.
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What Panoptic is, and what it is not
Panoptic supports the people who care for animals. It does not diagnose disease and does not replace direct observation, veterinary assessment, or a facility’s emergency protocols.
Panoptic reports what it measures. It does not interpret a reading as a diagnosis, and no alert it raises is a substitute for a veterinarian’s judgment. Decisions about an animal’s care remain with the facility and the animal’s own veterinary team.