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title: "Use WhiskerMatch Beside Your Current Shelter Software"
description: "WhiskerMatch is a shelter review and handoff layer that can start beside existing shelter software, spreadsheets, email, and foster texts, no forced migration."
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Beside current tools

# You do not have to rip out your system.

You do not need to rip out Shelterluv, Petfinder, Airtable, Jotform, Google Forms, spreadsheets, email, or whatever is barely holding together today. WhiskerMatch sits beside the mess first.

[See one workflow](https://www.whiskermatch.com/workflows) [Email Chris](mailto:support@whiskermatch.com?subject=WhiskerMatch%20beside%20our%20current%20tools)

Review and handoff layer

## Keep what works. Make one gap easier to carry.

The first step is not a migration project. The pilot maps only the context needed for one repeated handoff while the current operation keeps running.

- Shelterluv
- Petfinder
- Google Forms
- Jotform
- Airtable
- Spreadsheets
- Email

01

## What stays in current tools

Your system of record, existing accounts, historical data, required reporting, and any process the pilot does not need to touch.

02

## What WhiskerMatch organizes

The selected workflow's source material, review state, current blocker, next owner, due date, and audit trail.

03

## What the first pilot tests

Whether one handoff becomes clearer when its context and human review live on one record.

04

## What migration is not

The first step. There is no migration weekend, forced cutover, or promise of integrations that do not exist.

How the first workflow moves

## Bring the source in. Keep the decision human.

The useful part is not another dashboard. It is a reviewable path from the material your team already has to the next action a person owns.

1. 01 ### Paste or export application details Begin with the material the team can already access. No live integration is implied.
2. 02 ### Review the source notes Keep the intake, foster, applicant, or profile source visible beside the prepared work.
3. 03 ### Create a reviewer-ready summary Structure the relevant facts and open questions without deciding the outcome.
4. 04 ### Flag missing context Leave unknown fields open and send the question to a named person.
5. 05 ### Preserve human decision-making Staff approve, hold, request changes, respond, and decide.
6. 06 ### Keep a review trail Record the source, reviewer, action, and reason so the next person can follow the handoff.

What WhiskerMatch is

## A reviewed layer for the handoff.

It connects source material, preparation, human review, ownership, and audit history around one selected workflow.

### What WhiskerMatch is not

It is not a claim that your current systems failed. It is not a complete shelter-management replacement on day one. It is not an AI decision engine, integration catalog, or applicant-ranking system.

### Special-needs context can start beside the mess.

If a medically complex animal already has notes in five places, WhiskerMatch should help collect the review story before anyone is forced to rebuild the entire system.

Founder-supported pilot.

## Start beside the stack, not against it.

Map one workflow, keep the current operation running, and expand only if the team sees a clearer review flow.

[Bring one workflow](https://www.whiskermatch.com/contact#bring-one-workflow) [Review the pilot brief](https://www.whiskermatch.com/pilot/brief)

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About WhiskerMatch: WhiskerMatch is workflow software for animal shelters and rescues that keeps one reviewed record per animal across intake, foster care, adoption review and public profiles, with people making every placement and publishing decision.

## Sitemap

See the full [WhiskerMatch sitemap](https://www.whiskermatch.com/sitemap.md) for every public page, or [llms.txt](https://www.whiskermatch.com/llms.txt) for a short summary.