Dogs can't speak.
You read
every word.
Practitioners like you observe behavioral signals most people miss entirely. BarkMind captures that read — permanently, attributed to you — and turns it into training data for the AI that will help dogs everywhere.
Real incidents. Real sources. AI finds them nightly from across the web. Your job is to tell us what's actually happening.
Built for
Every professional who works with dogs.
Your specialty shapes what data only you can provide. All of it matters.
What you get
Your contribution becomes your credential.
Every case, every annotation — permanently attributed to you by name, credential, and timestamp. Yours to cite in your CV, your research, your bio.
Permanent attribution
Your name, credentials, and confidence level — attached to every observation you write. Survives dataset releases, paper citations, and model training.
Founding contributor status
Early contributors are permanently designated as Founding Contributors in the v1.0 release. Not a badge — a citation in published research.
Verified expert profile
Credentialed experts get a public profile showing certifications, specializations, and review count — a verifiable professional credential.
How simple is it?
Three steps. Five minutes.
Permanent record.
You don't need to be a developer. You don't need video. You need to know what a dog is doing — and you already do.
Find a case in your specialty
Browse cases filtered by setting — daycare, shelter, vet clinic, grooming. Pick one where you have real expertise. Takes 2 minutes.
Write what you observe
Describe the behavioral signals. Tag from the structured taxonomy. Set your confidence level. Just what you see — not what you diagnose.
Your name is on it permanently.
Attributed to you immediately — username, credential status, timestamp. When the case locks into the dataset, you're in the acknowledgments.
The problem
What you know right now could change a dog's outcome tomorrow.
A shelter behaviorist assesses 40 dogs a week. Those assessments stay in a notebook nobody reads. A CPDT in Dallas solved the problem a CPDT in Seattle is struggling with right now — and they'll never know.
20 years of reads. Gone.
When a practitioner retires, their pattern recognition — built over thousands of assessments — evaporates with them. BarkMind makes it permanent.
Experts work in silos.
There is no shared consensus layer between certified professionals. Every practitioner re-learns what the community already knows.
AI needs your labels.
Behavioral AI can't be trained on guesses. It needs expert-labeled, confidence-scored, taxonomy-referenced data — what you already produce daily.
How it works
From incident to dataset entry.
No developer skills. No video required. A clear description and a photo gets you started.
Submit
Describe a real incident from your practice. Photo or video optional.
Annotate
Community applies behavioral tags and structured observations.
Expert review
A verified expert files a formal verdict with clinical reasoning.
Consensus
Multi-expert opinions aggregate. Disagreement is recorded.
Dataset entry
Evidence locks. Permanent, immutable, citable record.
Research updates
Get notified when the dataset is ready.
We'll send you one email when the v1.0 behavioral dataset is available for download. No newsletter spam. No marketing. Just the dataset release.
Join the network
Twenty years of behavioral reads.
Make them permanent.
Every case you document builds your professional record right now. Join the practitioners making canine behavioral science structured, searchable, and lasting.
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