How Driyu connects pet owners, finders, and trusted care

Quick answer: Driyu gives each pet a QR tag and a private profile. The owner controls what appears on the public page a finder sees. The same profile holds the records you bring to vet, sitter, or boarder visits — today, you pull them up yourself rather than routing them through Driyu. Three sides, one calm system, one shareable link to the public page.

Most pet information lives in scattered places — the vet’s system, a paper folder at home, a friend’s phone contacts, the microchip registry, and a few stray screenshots. When a pet is lost, sick, or being handed off to someone new, that scatter is the problem. Driyu is one small layer that tries to close the gaps between owner, finder, and the people who help in between.

The owner side

The owner side is a private profile. It holds:

• A current photo of each pet.
• Phone number, email, city, and state — each with its own visibility toggle.
• Two emergency contacts.
• Vet name and clinic phone.
• Microchip number.
• Care notes — medication reminders, behavior notes, allergies.
• Vaccine records and other documents the owner has chosen to keep.

Most of this stays in the owner’s account. A subset is visible on the public page a finder reaches by scanning the QR tag. The owner decides which subset.

The finder side

The finder side is intentionally simple. A finder does not need a Driyu account, does not need to install anything, and does not need to share their own information. They open their phone camera, point it at the tag, and read the page.

What they see is a mix of owner-toggleable fields and pet-safety fields the owner has populated:

• The pet’s photo and name — basic identification.
• Any of the five owner-contact fields the owner has toggled on: phone, email, city, state, and the emergency contacts list.
• Medical alerts, allergies, distinguishing marks, microchip number, microchip phone, and finder instructions when the owner has populated them — these help a vet or shelter act fast.

Home street address is never on the page. Full medical history, prior vet records, and private notes are never on the page either — those stay in the owner’s account. For a closer look at the finder experience, see what happens when someone scans your pet’s QR tag.

The care-provider side

Vets, groomers, boarders, sitters, and shelters often need specific records — vaccine summaries, allergies, current medications, emergency contacts — that the owner has carefully collected over time. Driyu’s role on this side is to keep those records calmly organized in your account, so you have them ready when the provider asks.

In practice today, this looks like:

• You pull up your Driyu profile on your phone at the boarder’s check-in counter and show the vaccine summary.
• You print or screenshot a one-page summary from your account and hand it to a new sitter.
• You share the public scan link with a new vet so they can confirm the basics at intake before you walk through the full history.
• A shelter that scans a found pet’s tag reaches the owner immediately through the public page, before going through the microchip registry chain.

A few honest notes:

• Driyu does not currently route records directly to a named provider on the owner’s behalf. The owner is the human in the loop — you choose what to show, screenshot, print, or share.
• Provider-side accounts (vet logins, sitter accounts, boarder dashboards) are not part of the product today. We are thinking about it carefully and not promising it yet.

Trust, layered

The whole design is about who sees what:

• Public, finder-facing. The minimum a finder needs to help. Five owner-contact toggles (phone, email, city, state, emergency contacts) plus the pet-safety fields you have populated (medical alerts, microchip, finder instructions).
• Private, owner-only. Home street address, full medical history, prior vet records, private notes. Lives in the owner’s account, never on the public page.
• Owner-mediated handoff. Records the owner pulls up, screenshots, prints, or shares with a provider on their own — vaccine summary to a boarder, care notes to a sitter. Today the owner is the human in the loop; Driyu does not route records to a named recipient.

Owners decide every step. Nothing is shared by default that the owner has not chosen to share. For the privacy framing on the public side, see your pet’s privacy: what Driyu shares (and what it doesn’t).

What Driyu is not

Some honest boundaries:

• Not a tracker. Driyu does not transmit a location. A finder has to choose to scan the tag.
• Not a microchip replacement. Driyu is an external QR tag. A microchip is an implant scanned by shelters and vets with a special reader. Different tools, complementary purposes.
• Not a recovery guarantee. No tool can promise a pet will be found. Driyu can make contact easier when someone scans or shares.
• Not a veterinary service. Driyu organizes records and contacts. Care comes from your vet.

Why we built it this way

Pet families are not corporations. They run on small kindnesses among neighbors, the muscle memory of a household, and the people who already help — vets, sitters, friends. We built Driyu to take one small task off the family: keep the information current in one place, so that when someone needs it — a finder, a sitter, a new vet, a shelter — they get the answer instead of a confused chain. For the longer story, see why we built Driyu.