Works with any PIMS
Shepherd is a PIMS built around the exam itself — a modern interface that keeps you moving through today's visit. That is one moment in the animal's life. OpenVet keeps the medicine moving with you and holds the animal's whole history, not just this exam, as the system of record — working on top of Shepherd.
Your PIMS runs the practice. OpenVet runs the medicine — and follows the animal past your front door.
The practice record
Scope: this exam · this visit
The clinical operating system
Scope: the whole animal · every visit, anywhere
No rip-and-replace. Keep Shepherd as your practice record; add the reasoning layer on top.
Shepherd is built for
Building the practice workflow around the exam itself — a modern, clean interface that keeps you moving through today's visit.
Only OpenVet is built for
The universal medical record for the animal itself — the end-to-end knowledge of its whole life, across clinics and species, plus cited clinical reasoning a practice management system was never designed to do.
An exam-centric PIMS keeps you moving through the visit. OpenVet keeps the medicine moving with you, a dose, a differential, a workup, sourced and structured in seconds.
It runs in a browser tab beside Shepherd, so it fits the rhythm of the room.
Shepherd captures this visit. OpenVet is the clinical operating system that reasons across the whole life of the animal, so the thinking in the room is informed by more than what is charted today.
It works with Shepherd and any other PIMS, with nothing to install.
Doses and thresholds are drawn directly from authoritative references, including the FDA, USDA, and published veterinary sources, and run through species-specific safety checks. They are never invented by the model, and every answer shows its sources.
OpenVet supports your judgment; the final call is always yours.
No. Shepherd stays your exam-centric PIMS. OpenVet is the clinical operating system that works with it and any other PIMS.
Nothing to set up to start — ask your question in OpenVet, then bring the answer into your Shepherd record and plan. And we do have integrations: if you want OpenVet connected more deeply to your practice data, talk to our team about your setup.
From authoritative references such as the FDA and USDA, with species-specific safety checks and visible sources. They are not generated by the model.
Free for every vet who treats an animal. Cited answers, validated dosing, every species.
Shepherd is a trademark of its respective owner. OpenVet is an independent product and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by it.