Maven Pet puts an AI assistant on its dog health sensor

Maven Pet launched Companion, an AI assistant that answers owners' questions from their dog's own sensor data, on October 13th, 2026. The New York company says Companion is live now for every subscriber inside the Maven Pet app.

The pitch is aimed straight at ChatGPT. CEO Guilherme Coelho says Companion "answers from your pet's data, not the internet," the same bet Instinct Science made for vets in September with its own clinical content.

Companion reads the sensor and speaks first

Companion pulls vitals, sleep, activity and behavior from Maven's sensor, which clips onto a dog's collar, plus the dog's profile and anything the owner logs. Maven Pet puts the volume at up to 25 million data points a day, each judged against that dog's own normal.

The bigger change is that it does not wait to be asked. The company's examples are a senior dog whose respiratory rate creeps up and a diabetic dog drinking more than usual, with alerts that can come "often days before an owner notices anything."

Maven Pet says it has already sent more than 125,000 proactive health insights, most often ear, skin and allergy changes, then cardiac and respiratory shifts.

Owners already ask chatbots about pet health

Maven Pet backs the launch with a Talker Research survey of 2,000 pet owners, commissioned by Darwin's pet food. In it, 43% of owners said they had used AI tools like ChatGPT for pet health or nutrition information, and 59% said they had changed their pet's care based on AI advice.

Vets still win the tiebreak. When advice conflicts, 64% of owners in the same Darwin's survey said they follow their veterinarian and 12% said they side with AI.

So an assistant that hands owners their dog's own numbers to bring to the vet fits how people already behave. Maven's published research leans the same way, led by a study that matched its sensor to manual counts of resting respiratory rate.

The plan costs far less than a vital-signs collar

Maven Pet prices the annual subscription at $167.92 with the sensor included. Its dog health tracker page shows the same plan at $13.99 a month billed annually, against $19.99 a month on a monthly plan.

That sits well under the vital-signs collar PetPace brought to Chewy this month, which costs $299.99 before a $300 first-year subscription. PetPace's plan adds veterinary telemedicine, so the two are not a straight swap.

For clinics, the question is whether owners start walking in with Companion alerts in hand.

Source: Maven Pet via PR Newswire