Buddy, the AI Assistant
Buddy, Your AI Breeding Assistant
Drop a file and watch Buddy draft the records. Ask about your dogs, litters, buyers, and payments in plain English and get answers from your live records, with links to prove it.
Litter Information Card
Drafting your template
Buddy reads every label on the form and matches each blank to the litter, puppy, and health records in your account. You check the result once, then it prefills forever.
The real screen: Buddy reading a state litter record and drafting every field from a breeder's records
Sound familiar?
You shouldn't have to dig for answers you already recorded
- Every morning starts the same way: opening six pages to figure out what actually needs your attention
- You know her last heat is logged somewhere, but finding it means clicks, filters, and scrolling
- A buyer calls and you're stalling while you hunt for their application and deposit status
- Vet PDFs and lab results pile up in your downloads folder, waiting for a filing day that never comes
Buddy
Reads your live records. Nothing made up.
One question in, and Buddy checks your whole day, then tells you what to look at first
One question replaces your morning checklist
Ask "what do I need to do today?" and Buddy checks your calendar, care reminders, pending applications, and payments, then gives you a straight answer with the receipts to prove it.
- Plain-English questions about your dogs, litters, buyers, and payments
- Shows exactly what it checked, so you know the answer came from your records
- Every dog, buyer, or invoice in an answer links to the actual page
- @ mention any dog to ask about her directly
The forecast Buddy reads from when you ask who's next
Know who's coming in season before the calendar tells you
Buddy reads your heat cycle history the same way you would. Ask who's due next, or whether a girl is overdue, and it answers from her actual record, with her forecast right there.
- Ask "who's due to come in season?" and get names, not a report to interpret
- Overdue girls get flagged based on each female's own average interval
- Ask about a specific dam's last cycle, progesterone results, or due date
- Forecasts come from the same heat cycle tracking you already use
ofa-hips-luna.pdf
Filing your paperwork
Honey Brook's Luna
Female · Golden Retriever · SR 92211004
Drop it in. Buddy works out whose it is, files it where you'd look for it, and drafts the record so it shows in her health history.
An OFA result dropped in, matched to Luna, filed on her profile, and logged as a health record
Drop the file. Buddy figures out where it goes.
That OFA result sitting in your downloads folder? Drop it in. Buddy reads the document, matches it to the right dog, litter, or contact, and proposes the filing. You approve it, and it's done.
- Reads vet PDFs, lab results, contracts, registration paperwork, and photos
- Matches each document to the right dog, litter, or contact
- Proposes the filing; nothing is saved until you approve it
- Filed documents land on the profile where you'd expect to find them
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Building the family tree
Buddy reads each ancestor off the printout, checks whether they're already in your account, and builds the tree for your approval.
A scanned pedigree read one generation at a time, matched against the dogs you already have, and built into a family tree
Bring your whole program in from any file
Switching tools usually means weeks of retyping. Buddy Intake reads what you already have: an Embark, Paw Print Genetics or Wisdom Panel report, an OFA certificate, a registration certificate, a pedigree PDF, a spreadsheet, even a photo of paper records. It extracts the dogs, health tests, and genetics data and proposes structured records you review before anything is saved.
- Embark, Paw Print Genetics, Wisdom Panel, OFA, registration, and pedigree documents understood out of the box
- Spreadsheets work without special formatting or column mapping
- Photos of handwritten or paper records are read too
- Everything lands as a proposal; you approve before a single record is created
breeding-records.xlsx
Reading your spreadsheet
No reformatting. Buddy works out what each column means, matches rows to dogs you already have, and drafts the rest.
Buddy reads the sheet row by row and drafts the dogs it finds
Your old spreadsheet, any layout
You don't have to clean it up first. Hand Buddy the spreadsheet you've kept since your first litter and it works out what each column means, matches rows to dogs already in your account, and drafts a record for every row you don't have yet.
- Any column order, any headers, blank cells and all
- Rows that match a dog you already have get updated, not duplicated
- Sires and dams named in the sheet get linked up
- One import plan to approve, and one click to undo it
dna-results-luna.pdf
Reading the DNA report
Luna · Genetics panel
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Every locus and every health result lands on her profile, ready for the genetics forecast on her next pairing.
Every locus and health result read off the report and laid out on her profile
An Embark report becomes a genetics panel
Drop the DNA report or the OFA certificate and Buddy reads every locus and every health result off it. It lands on the dog's profile as the same genetics panel the forecast tool uses on her next pairing, with carriers flagged so you see them.
- Embark, Paw Print Genetics, Wisdom Panel, and OFA results read out of the box, DNA-test COI included
- Coat color loci fill the genetics panel used for pairing forecasts
- Health conditions logged as results, carriers flagged
- Everything waits for your approval before it saves
Everything included
An assistant that already knows your program
- Buddy chat built into your dashboard, collapsible while you work
- Plain-English questions about dogs, litters, buyers, applications, and payments
- "What needs my attention today" briefings on demand
- Heat cycle answers: who's due, who's overdue, and when
- Whelping questions ("has she dropped yet?") answered from Whelping Watch
- Smart links to the exact dog, buyer, or invoice in every answer
- @ mentions for asking about a specific dog
- Smart Filing for vet PDFs, lab results, contracts, and photos
- Buddy Intake: import dogs, health tests, and genetics from Embark, Paw Print Genetics, Wisdom Panel, OFA, pedigree PDFs, spreadsheets, or photos
- Approval required on every proposed filing and import, so you stay in control
- A visible list of what Buddy checked behind every answer
- Works for dog and cat programs
- Included with your subscription, with a daily message allowance
Testimonials
What breeders say about BreederBuddy
Hundreds of breeders run their programs on BreederBuddy. Here is what a few of them say.
Sarae Vergason
HonorRae Shih Tzu · Erin, NY
Breeder Buddy has been the perfect addition to my dog breeding business! It is so well put together and organized and keeps all of my information in one place. The platform itself is easy to navigate, well designed, with a modern and clean feel while still offering a ton of options for keeping everything you need all in one place.
Misty Wright
208 Dox Dynasty · Nampa, Idaho
I cannot rave ENOUGH about this breeding program software! Since having switched to Breeder Buddy, it has been a game changer! He listens to breeders and takes our ideas and implements them. 1000/1000 would recommend.
Jessica Johnson
Ruff Draft Inc Dog Rescue · Chicago, IL
We used Kenny to build a custom website and he did an amazing job! In addition to the care he took to build the site he also set aside time to meet with me to make any changes or adjustments as well as to teach me the ropes.
Beverly Pausche
Fabelhaft Maine Coons · Kentville, Nova Scotia
Kenny built a site for me, even though I am a cat breeder, and the process was absolutely phenomenal. The result was just what I was hoping for when I went to him, and it integrates so well with his breeder software. If you want a great site at an affordable cost, choose Kenny to build it.
Lanny Gunter
Edge of Time Border Collies · Camden, SC
Breeder Buddy has been an absolute game changer for our breeding program! The software has allowed us to stay more organized with our program dogs but also with our communication and payments with our customers.
Heidi Emmendorfer
Sonnenfeld Shepherds · Grand Junction, CO
Breeder Buddy has been a fantastic addition to my breeding program. It's clean, reliable, and thoughtfully designed for how breeders actually work. It feels like it was built by people who truly understand the rhythm and demands of a responsible breeding operation.
Joined by hundreds more breeding programs across the US and Canada.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about Buddy and AI in BreederBuddy
Does BreederBuddy have an AI assistant?
Yes. Buddy is built into BreederBuddy. Ask about your dogs, litters, buyers, applications, and payments in plain English, and Buddy answers from your live records with links to the exact pages it's talking about.
What can I ask Buddy?
Anything about your own program. 'What do I need to do today?' 'Who's due to come in season next?' 'Has anyone applied for the spring litter?' 'Which invoices are overdue?' Buddy checks your calendar, care reminders, applications, and payments, then gives you a straight answer. You can also @ mention a dog to ask about her directly.
Does Buddy make things up?
Buddy answers from your records, not from guesses. It shows you exactly what it checked before answering, and every dog, buyer, or invoice it mentions links to the real page so you can verify in one click. If something isn't in your records, Buddy says so.
What is Smart Filing?
Drop any document into BreederBuddy (a vet PDF, a lab result, a signed contract, even a photo) and Buddy reads it, figures out which dog, litter, or contact it belongs to, and proposes where to file it. Nothing is saved until you approve, so you stay in control. See how Buddy and Smart Filing work →
Is my breeding program's data used to train AI models?
No. Your records stay in your account. Buddy reads them only to answer your questions, and your data is not used to train AI models.
Does Buddy cost extra?
No, Buddy is included with BreederBuddy. Every account gets a daily message allowance that resets each day.
Does Buddy work for cat breeding programs?
Yes. Buddy works with whichever program type your account runs, dogs or cats, and answers from the same records either way.
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