Shelter operations resource
AI boundaries checklist
Give staff and volunteers a usable boundary between drafting assistance and work that must remain human.
The current AI-assist is limited to sourced public-profile wording. It cannot own the record, judgment, accountability, or relationship behind an animal placement.
01
AI may prepare
- Draft organization-owned public-profile wording from entered source facts.
- Label the result as AI or deterministic template output.
- Leave the result editable and unsaved until a person chooses to save it.
- Preserve unknowns instead of filling them with guesses.
02
A human must decide
- Approve or hold a public profile.
- Review an applicant and decide the next action.
- Interpret medical, behavior, disability, or special-needs context, never convert it into a risk score.
- Override, escalate, or stop the workflow.
03
Never automate
- Placement decisions or applicant rejection.
- Adopter ranking or paid ranking.
- Public profile publishing.
- Shelter policy or professional judgment.
- Manufacturing certainty when the source is missing, stale, or conflicting, stop and name who takes over.
- Treating a photo as anything more than context.
04
Visible safeguards
- Mark AI-prepared work.
- Keep the source attached.
- Name the human reviewer.
- Record the final action and reason.
- Named reviewer
- Escalation path
Early access, founder-led
Keep this with the animal record.
WhiskerMatch is one record per animal that intake, foster, adoption review, and public profiles share. It starts with one workflow, beside the tools you already use, and a person at your organization makes every decision.
$20/month per organization, no seat limits. This is a founder-led early access invitation with no deadline. Writing to ask a question costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
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