About CuddleBridge
We're on a mission to connect shelter dogs with caring people for day-long outings — reducing kennel stress, increasing adoptions, and bringing joy to both humans and dogs.
Our Mission
Every day, thousands of dogs sit in shelter kennels across British Columbia, waiting for a home. The average wait time is 6 months. During that time, many develop behavioral issues from the stress of confinement — making them even harder to adopt.
CuddleBridge breaks this cycle. By offering day-long outings with vetted borrowers, we give shelter dogs regular breaks from kennel life. The results are remarkable: reduced stress, improved socialization, and adoption rates that triple.
Meanwhile, borrowers get the joy of canine companionship without the lifetime commitment — and many end up adopting the dogs they borrow.
Vancouver First
We're launching in Vancouver, BC — a city that loves its dogs. With over 20 shelters in the Greater Vancouver area and a culture of outdoor activity, it's the perfect place to prove this model works.
We've identified over 20 shelters in the Greater Vancouver area and are actively reaching out to establish partnerships. Our first pilot conversations are underway — no formal partnerships have been confirmed yet.
Once we've proven the model in Vancouver, we'll expand to Victoria, Calgary, Toronto, and beyond. Our vision is a Canada where no shelter dog goes without regular outings.
Our Impact Goals
Measurable outcomes that drive everything we do.
Meet the Team
One human founder. Fifteen AI agents. Built from the ground up with Claude to move at startup speed without startup headcount.
Click any agent to learn what they do · 1 human · 16 AI agents · built with Claude
Sino
HumanThe sole human on the team. Product visionary and dog lover based in Vancouver.
Axiom
AICoordinates all 11 agents. Breaks high-level goals into tasks, manages priorities, and synthesizes daily progress.
Vega
AIManages budgets, monitors spend across all agents, and enforces cost approval tiers to keep the project financially responsible.
Clio
AIDesigns the database schema, API contracts, and product specifications. Turns ideas into detailed technical blueprints.
Kai
AIBuilds the C-BARQ scoring model, designs the matching algorithm, and conducts behavioral science research.
Nova
AIBuilds and ships the Next.js app, integrates Supabase and Stripe, and turns designs into pixel-perfect code.
Sage
AIResearches shelters, manages partner outreach, and designs the shelter onboarding experience.
Ember
AICreates brand identity, writes marketing copy, manages social media content, and drives user acquisition.
Atlas
AIRuns competitive analysis, builds financial models, creates investor materials, and analyzes market opportunities.
Lex
AIDrafts terms of service, liability waivers, privacy policies, and insurance documentation under BC jurisdiction.
Pixel
AILeads the user experience — ensures every interaction is intuitive for non-technical users. Removed all jargon, redesigned the browse and profile pages.
Phoenix
AIOwns CI/CD pipelines, Vercel deployments, environment configuration, and production monitoring. Keeps the lights on.
Lyric
AIWrites blog posts, manages the social media content calendar, drafts press releases, and pitches media targets.
Orion
AIDesigns training and inference pipelines, owns MLOps infrastructure — experiment tracking, model registry, and ML CI/CD.
Scout
AIScrapes and sources training data: C-BARQ survey datasets, shelter records, academic behavioural studies, and public dog welfare corpora.
Wren
AICleans, deduplicates, and validates every dataset before training. Enforces schema contracts and monitors for label drift and data rot.
Forge
AISelects, fine-tunes, and benchmarks deep learning models. Runs hyperparameter sweeps and produces quantized, deployment-ready exports.
Canvas
AICreates visual identity, custom illustrations, and interactive design assets using Omma. Produces landing page visuals, 3D content, and presentation decks from prompts.
How We Build
A new kind of startup: human-directed, agent-executed.
CuddleBridge is an experiment in what's possible when a solo founder orchestrates a team of AI agents to build a real product. Every line of code, every design decision, every legal document, and every market analysis is produced by an AI agent under human direction.
Axiom serves as the AI CEO — breaking goals into tasks, coordinating agents, and producing daily synthesis reports. Vega acts as CFO, enforcing strict budget controls with a 4-tier approval system. The rest of the team — from Nova (full-stack) to Lex (legal) — are specialists who execute their tasks autonomously.
The result: we shipped our entire Week 1 sprint — database schema, API spec, C-BARQ scoring rubric, legal docs, competitive analysis, shelter research, and a deployed Next.js app — in a single day, for under $50 in compute costs.
Curious about our agent dashboard? Check out CuddleBridge HQ.
How We Assess Safety
Every dog you see on CuddleBridge has passed a structured behavioural evaluation. Here's exactly how it works — for those who want to know.
Step 1 — Shelter assessment
Shelter staff complete a structured intake form for each dog. This covers the dog's history, any known triggers, past incidents, and daily behaviour patterns — both in the kennel and in public.
Step 2 — C-BARQ scoring
We use the Canine Behavioral Assessment & Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ), a peer-reviewed tool developed at the University of Pennsylvania. It measures 14 behavioural dimensions, including stranger-directed aggression, trainability, energy level, separation anxiety, and fearfulness — each scored 0–1.
Step 3 — Safety tier decision
Dogs scoring low on all aggression dimensions and high on trainability are approved for all borrowers. Dogs with higher scores in any risk dimension are reviewed by our team — some are approved for experienced borrowers only, others are not listed until re-assessed. No dog is listed without manual review.
Step 4 — Ongoing updates
Borrower feedback from every outing is fed back into each dog's profile. Scores are updated over time — a dog that initially scored Amber may graduate to fully approved as their record improves. We re-assess any dog after an incident, always.
The 14 C-BARQ dimensions we measure
C-BARQ was developed by James Serpell PhD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and has been validated in over 50 peer-reviewed studies. Learn more at UPenn →
Get in Touch
Whether you're a shelter, potential partner, investor, or just curious — we'd love to hear from you.
hello@cuddlebridge.com
Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Shelter Partners
partners@cuddlebridge.com
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