Radically extend canine lifespan.
Dogs get about a decade. We’re building the science that gives them more.
A decade is a starting point.
Every dog owner learns the same arithmetic. You get about a decade, a little longer if the dog is small, and then you are sitting on the floor of a vet’s office. We started Tailmates to test that arithmetic properly, in the dogs people actually live with.
Aging science is moving fast. The ideas are here. What it takes now is dogs, days, and honest records.
That is the whole reason the app exists in the shape it does. It is a game, because a game is the only thing anyone keeps doing every single day.
Nobody solves it alone. It takes three things.
Research
Aging science is moving fast. Rapamycin trials. Longevity drugs arriving in real clinics. We follow the evidence, we track what dogs are actually taking, and we publish what we learn. All of it.
Tracking
A longevity score you can move. Walks, weight, body condition, bloodwork. The picture builds while you go about your day.
Participation
Share your dog's data and it joins every other dog's. That is how a decade of anecdotes becomes evidence. It is your call, always, and the app works the same either way.
Every walk is a data point. Every dog is part of the answer.
Four things we have promised to do.
Both papers are posted, and you can read them.
Both papers describing how the longevity score works are posted on Frontier Science, the founder’s open-science journal: a full specification of the model, and the plan for testing it against real outcomes. They are editorial previews, early drafts that are not peer reviewed yet, and we update the model as real data comes in. You can read them yourself.
Ambitious mission, honest product
Radically extending canine lifespan is the company’s work, the thing we get up for. What the app does today is measure, plainly, and show you the range. We keep those two in separate sentences so the promise always stays true.
The day we have a finding, you will read it with the method attached, all of it. The page that lays out exactly what we can support today is one tap away, and it is the most honest page we have.
One dog is a story. A hundred thousand dogs is an answer.
Thanks for joining our mission.
Free to play. Your dog. Your data. Your call.