"Max, who is the world's first dog-saving AI has already revolutionised safety in AI"
1 in 3 answers by generic AI for dog health are wrong
dogAdvisor Max Series 5 is the world's best model for dog owners
dogAdvisor Max is the world's best model for dog owners by providing world-leading safe and trusted answers. Max outranks the competition in safety, reliability, medical knowledge, and excels at conversations where specific nuance (like medication history) is needed. Benchmarked with dogBench.
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Shaped by principle, guided by experts, and perfected by 8500 vets
Max is built entirely around a set of values we call Principle Alignment, derived from over 11,000 people, 8,500 of them qualified medical and veterinary professionals, so he knows what to consider, when to defer to a vet, and how to answer honestly, carefully, and helpfully. His knowledge is never pulled from the internet, and every step, from what he's taught to how he speaks, is designed and perfected by human experts at dogAdvisor.
Principle Alignment
Max's values are built together with input from more than 11,000 people, 8,500 of them qualified vets, creating a constitutional alignment that empowers Max to know what to consider, when to defer, and how to be honest even when it's not what you want to hear.
Knowledge
Max's entire knowledge is crafted uniquely by human experts at dogAdvisor, consistently informed by clinical and behavioural evidence from qualified veterinary and behavioural science professionals, and never stolen from the open web.
Guided Retriever Intelligence
Made possible by a breakthrough in retrieval methods by dogAdvisor, Max navigates his knowledge in order and with deep consideration of specific rules, rather than the statistical matching (RAG) most models rely on, which can lead models to miss context and forget critical nuance.
Foundation Safety Framework
Health and Medical History
Max keeps track of and holds onto your dog's medical history so he answers without forgetting what's important
Allergies and Medication
Max knows your dog's allergies and medications, so he can warn you of how they may affect your dog and flag risks
Speaks specifically to your dog
Max understands your dog's age, breed, and temperament so his guidance feels tailored to the dog in front of you
With Foundation Safety Framework, Max is able to understand your dog by seeing their full personal picture, from seeing their medical passport to understanding their breed, making Max's answers remarkably personalised and effortlessly tailored. As always, all data maintained by Foundation Framework is encrypted.
Conversational Classifiers
Welfare Protection with Mind & Samaritans
Created together with Mind & Samaritans, Max can redirect owners facing mental health challenges or who share suicidal ideation to professional help
Seriously Illegal Content Classifiers
Max is designed to step in to stop illegal or dangerous content like disclosures of threats of terrorism or crime, so we can comply with our safety obligations
CSAM and image abuse Classifiers
For Max models which accept image or camera uploads, our classifiers use neural hashes and image recognition to recognise and alert of CSAM or objectionable imagery
Not every question Max answers needs the same answer, and Conversational Classifiers are built to recognise those moments when more support is needed. Classifiers support Max as he helps owners through challenging moments (like our work with Mind & Samaritans) whilst protecting Max from illegal content and abuse
Life-saving capabilities
Measure vitals with up to 94% clinical accuracy
Max Health is designed to support you through vet-validated techniques like femoral pulse tests, endorsed by the American Animal Hospital Association & RVC
Health alerts calibrated against 1.7B data points
Max Health uses a custom algorithm that considers more than 1.7 Billion data points, with over 50 million possible combinations of dogs, to give you personalised alerts
Emergency Guidance saved 4 dogs
In Emergencies, Max can step in with Emergency Guidance to support you as you call your vet. This helped directly save the lives of four dogs. Read the story ↗︎
Footnotes
[1] 1 in 3 Accuracy of generic AI model (GPT-4 Series model) taken from research study by the Royal Veterinary College
[2] dogAdvisor Max's description as the worlds best/smartest/most capable model for dog owners refers to Max Series 5, as demonstrated in dogBench evaluations, published in "dogAdvisor Max: Series 5 Safety Card", October 24th 2026, D Darenberg, dogAdvisor, et al. published under "Our Research" or on dogadvisor.dog/series5-safety. dogBench eval conducted against Fall 2026 Evaluation Series, as cited below, published October 13th 2026. Full methodology, scoring rubric, and per-category results are published in “dogAdvisor Max: Series 5 Safety Card” (D. Darenberg et al., 24 Oct 2026) and are independently reproducible
[3] dogBench evaluations measured according to dogBench Fall 2026 Series, published under "Introducing dogBench: a safety, reasoning, and integrity evaluation framework for LLMs in dog care and ownership" October 13th 2026
[4] Principle Alignment's values input research is published under "Principle Alignment: constitutionally aligning models for enhanced accuracy in animal care domains", October 20th 2026
[5] Guided Retriever Intelligence is legally protected as proprietary and a trade secret, with a limited overview published under "Guided Retriever Intelligence: guided navigation framework for knowledge networks in applied LLMs", October 19th, D Darenberg and dogAdvisor et al
[6] Foundation Safety Framework's encryption can be independently verified by privacy professionals and experts, who can make a request at https://dogadvisor.dog/auditprivacycontrols
[7] Conversational Classifiers effectiveness research is published under "Conversational Classifiers Series 1: statement of results", October 1st 2026
[8] Additional information on 1.7 Billion data points used in health, and 50 Million possible combinations is published under multiple research papers, available on dogAdvisor Research.
[9] Up to 94% clinical accuracy refers solely to femoral pulse test, as published in Cohen AL, Li T, Becker LB, et al. "Femoral artery Doppler ultrasound is more accurate than manual palpation for pulse detection in cardiac arrest", with respect to Heart Health capability on dogAdvisor Max Health as available in Max Series 5 and later.
[10] Endorsement of techniques refers to respiratory health chest rise and heart health femoral pulse, taken from [a] RVC First Aid Guide for Your Pet which endorses watching the number of breaths a dog makes over a set time period (referenced as 10 seconds) [b] AAHA endorsement in 2024 AAHA Fluid Therapy guide for practitioners. As further published in "An investigation into the detection of the pulse in conscious and anaesthetised dogs" and "Evaluation of the relationship between peripheral pulse palpation and Doppler-derived systolic blood pressure (SBP) measurement in dogs presenting to an emergency service".
[11] Description of dogAdvisor as the world's leading pet AI deployer defended in "dogAdvisor: 2026 Annual Safety Statement", October 1st 2026.
[12] Media (Forbes) description of Max as the world's first life-saving pet AI further defended in "dogAdvisor: 2026 Annual Safety Statement", October 1st 2026, as published above.
[13] Depiction of Max as life-saving, or having saved the lives of 4 dogs, is defended and available in "dogAdvisor: 2026 Annual Safety Statement", October 1st 2026.
[14] Additional information about welfare protection and our work with Mind & Samaritans is published under "Conversational Classifiers Series 1: statement of results", October 1st 2026, D Darenberg and dogAdvisor.
[15] Several research papers above (including Series 5 Safety Card, Principle Alignment research, Conversational Classifiers research, and our industry outlook) are published by dogAdvisor, in line with industry norms (for example OpenAI's GPT-5 System Card, Anthropic's Claude family model cards, and Google DeepMind's Gemini technical reports). To verify methodology, explore how we prevent cheating or discriminatory scoring, and ensure the independence and reproducibility of our research, please refer to the relevant paper. In certain papers, such as our work around Principle Alignment, we may be the first deployer to publish research in a certain area (for example professional and public beliefs on values AI should hold for dog owners) dogAdvisor may cite our research where no one else has published into these areas, in line with our standards to be world-leading in a safety critical domain.
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