For nearly a decade, the founders of Como worked at the intersection of two worlds most people
never connect — artificial intelligence and animal behavioral science. They built predictive models.
They processed biomechanical datasets. They developed the mathematical infrastructure to understand,
with extraordinary precision, how animals move, react, communicate, and express need.
It was rigorous, technical work — and it worked beautifully in research environments.
In lab settings, in academic papers, in controlled conditions with expensive equipment and teams of analysts.
The science was undeniable. The gap between that science and the average pet owner was immense.
The tools existed. The access didn't. That was the problem.
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The Question That Started Everything
A family lost their 7-month-old baby to a pitbull they had raised since birth.
A dog they loved. A dog who had never once shown aggression. No warning. No visible signs.
In the devastation that followed, one question refused to leave them:
"Why didn't we know?"
That question is the origin of Como AI.
"What if the tools we'd spent a decade building could have told us sooner?"
— The question that became Como
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~10 Years Ago
The research years. Building AI models for animal behavioral analysis —
tracking anatomical keypoints, training pose estimation pipelines, publishing on kinematic
trajectory prediction in veterinary contexts. The science was there. The accessibility wasn't.
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One Year Ago — Toronto, 10pm
Como — a dog who had surfed in Bali, wakeboarded in Mexico, and ridden motorcycles across many continents — stepped into the backyard on an ordinary night.
His owner heard a cry of pain from the kitchen and bolted outside into the darkness.
A coyote. Como was hurt but alive — rushed to the emergency vet, bandaged but infected, and brought home.
He survived, scars and all. The next morning, work on Como AI began in earnest to monitor he's health and heal.
Not as a project — as a mission. Around the clock. Because the technology already existed.
It just hadn't been put in anyone's pocket yet.
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Months Later
Health monitoring for one. A working prototype — built for personal use.
Proof that the research could live inside a phone. That the models could run natively,
in real time, without hospital equipment. That it actually worked.
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Shared With Friends & Family
It grew before anyone planned for it to. Friends asked for access.
Their families used it. Strangers in veterinary waiting rooms heard about
it and tracked down the team to ask how to get it. The need was bigger than
anyone had estimated.
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Today
Como is public. Not just a health monitor anymore — a voice.
A bridge. A real-time conversation between a person and the animal they love,
mediated by an intelligence that sees what human eyes miss and translates
it into language anyone can understand. A fundamental change in how two species
— who have shared forty thousand years of history together — finally begin
to truly communicate.
That's Como. Not built in a boardroom. Not dreamed up in a pitch deck.
Built at 3am, terrified for a dog who couldn't tell us what was wrong —
and determined that no one else would have to feel that helpless ever again.
