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Digital health isn't only for humans - Sylvester AI helps diagnose an ailing animal

Shift by Alberta Innovates

English - July 27, 2022 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MB
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Cats are 10, 000 years less domesticated than dogs, so they don't always tell us the truth with their body language and sweet little purrs.

Enter Sylvester ai, a Calgary-based company that unveiled Tably, a digital health platform designed to assess a cat's visual cues based on pictures you take of your cat.

Tably's AI compares those photos with  a database of veterinarian photos it's been trained to analyze and compare to then make an assessment of whether your cat is having a good day or a bad day. An understanding of bad days over time can then help cat owners to more proactively seek help from vet before something minor becomes major.

Sylvester ai and Tably have been featured in a number of publications and are taking the pet world by storm. Listen to our interview with Susan and learn more about this fascinating technology she imagines will have application's beyond cats in the years to come.

Bio

Susan Groeneveld
Susan is an entrepreneur, co-founder of WS Marketing with Soul, Cat Healthy and sylvester.ai. She's a problem solver with over 20 yrs experience shaping growth marketing approaches for mid-large size companies. Customer centric approach in the food economy from growers to consumers; as well as pet care. Predicting audience behavior based on aggregated data and experience is her super power.

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