When two trained vets score the same animal on the Glasgow Composite Pain Scale, their agreement is 0.43. Cats are very good at masking discomfort, so careful clinicians can read the same patient quite differently. Continuous EEG, ECG and EMG add a steady record of what the body is doing, to sit alongside your own assessment, whoever is on shift.
Clinical Pilot Program. We are piloting Pawvbeat research hardware with a small number of practices, to support anesthesia monitoring and objective pain assessment. It is research-grade hardware and is not a certified diagnostic. Pilot practices receive the hardware and direct support from us, along with co-authorship on the validation work.
For research and investigational use only. This is not a diagnostic device, and it is intended to support your clinical judgment.
We have not added a photograph yet. Each board is assembled and tested by hand, and we would be glad to show you a real one on a call.
These are working relationships and conversations in progress, and they do not imply endorsement of the device.
Three Pawvbeat units, as set out in the pilot agreement, recording EEG, ECG, EMG, IMU and temperature on unshaved, unsedated patients. Each unit comes with twelve months of the Pawv app, and if any unit fails during the pilot, we will replace it free of charge.
Within 48 hours of each recording ending, we will send you a one-page summary with a trace excerpt and a note on how the cat compared with its own baseline, written so you can paste it into the clinical record. We write these summaries by hand for now, as there is no vet-facing dashboard yet. Your feedback during the pilot will help us decide what it should show.
The founders will help you directly with setup and protocols, and we are always happy to troubleshoot with you.
We would be glad to name your practice as a founding clinical partner and offer you first refusal on the clinician view once it is ready. We would also like to include you as co-authors on any resulting validation work.
Pilot terms: US$1,090 for six months (about NZ$1,850), half on signature and half on delivery. Units ship from our next production batch.
We have priced the pilot to cover the hardware and little more. What we hope for in return is paired data, and the chance to publish it together with you.
We would like to be open about one limitation. These figures come from our own labelled dataset, and the labels come from clinical assessment, the same scoring whose agreement we mentioned above (0.43). Please treat 89% as an internal engineering figure; it has not yet been externally validated. To improve on it, we need paired data where the reference is what happened to the cat clinically, beyond a single score on the day. This is why we are running pilots with practices before offering a finished product.
There are five short questions. We will reply within 48 hours with current pilot availability and a written quote, and we are happy to send the spec too.