Start with the dog.
One scientist, one dog, an obsession for more time.
Tailmates started with a founder, a dachshund, and the oldest question every dog owner asks: how do I keep her around longer? That question is the whole company.
Hi, I’m Thom.
Thanks for joining.
I started this journey by getting a biotechnology degree out of my interest in longevity in 2021. Then I looked at my dog Tesla and did the math on how much time I had left with her.
In 2023 I started Naturally Royal, a canine longevity supplement company, because of Tesla. Now I want to dive deeper into radically extending canine lifespan by building the largest collective research project in the world.
That’s Tailmates. The walks, packs, and games are the fun. The data they build across every dog that joins is how we answer the question for all of our dogs: the food our dogs eat, the medications they’re on, the activities and habits they have, tracked as new interventions come into the world.
Meet Tesla.
Tesla is a dapple dachshund, and she is the reason for all of it. The degree, the supplements, the research, the app you are looking at. Every piece traces back to wanting more years with her.
She is the first packmate in Tailmates, because she is the dog the first version was built for. Every dog that joins after her is joining something that started as one person not ready to run out of time with his dog.
Both papers behind the score are public.
We write the method down and publish it first, so a finding can never be reverse engineered into a story afterwards. That work lives on Frontier Science, the founder’s open-science journal. Both Tailmates papers are posted there as editorial previews. They are early drafts, not peer reviewed yet, and we update the model they describe as real data comes in.
- Design and computational verification of a transparent canine health-and-longevity composite
A methods paper that freezes exactly how the score is computed, where every number comes from, and what it does not yet claim. Editorial preview, pre-validation.
Read the preview - Prospective validation of a dynamic multimodal canine health and longevity model
The protocol for testing the model against real outcomes, written before any data is gathered, so the way we will judge it is fixed in advance. Editorial preview, pre-validation.
Read the preview
